Roma Trip Overview
Avoid the large, standard tour and enjoy this small group experience with restricted access to the greatest Roman ruins in the world. You’ll get special access to the Colosseum’s arena floor and explore it’s dungeons, where wild beast and gladiators were kept before bloody battles. Following the Colosseum you’ll make your way to the neighboring ruins, enjoying restricted access in Palatine Hill (Cesar’s Palace) and the Roman Forum (Ancient City). You’ll visit the most important ancient Roman temples and tombs, the Senate House, the House of the Vestal Virgins, and Julius Cesar’s tomb.
This easy paced tour includes a licensed tour guide providing fun, interesting, and relevant site information. Additionally, the tour includes skip-the-line tickets to enter the Colosseum through the Gladiator’s gate, and use of the Guides’ entrance at the Roman Forum; ensuring you get in quickly and have plenty of time for the tour as well as free time for self-exploration and great photos.
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Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
Avoid the large, standard tour and enjoy this small group experience with restricted access to the greatest Roman ruins in the world. You’ll get special access to the Colosseum’s arena floor and explore it’s dungeons, where wild beast and gladiators were kept before bloody battles. Following the Colosseum you’ll make your way to the neighboring ruins, enjoying restricted access in Palatine Hill (Cesar’s Palace) and the Roman Forum (Ancient City). You’ll visit the most important ancient Roman temples and tombs, the Senate House, the House of the Vestal Virgins, and Julius Cesar’s tomb.
This easy paced tour includes a licensed tour guide providing fun, interesting, and relevant site information. Additionally, the tour includes skip-the-line tickets to enter the Colosseum through the Gladiator’s gate, and use of the Guides’ entrance at the Roman Forum; ensuring you get in quickly and have plenty of time for the tour as well as free time for self-exploration and great photos.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy
We’ll begin the tour at the Colosseum, where you’ll marvel at its architecture while I provide a thorough explanation of how ancient people were able to build a stone stadium, two millennia ago. We’ll avoid the crowds and lines at the general entrance and instead enter through the privileged “Gladiator’s gate”. Next, you walk the same steps as gladiators on to the arena floor for exploration and photos before heading to the dungeons. The dungeons were the stadium’s backstage, wild beast and gladiators were kept there before deadly fights.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Roman Forum, Largo della Salara Vecchia 5/6, 00186 Rome Italy
In the Roman Forum, we’ll visit pagan temples and tombs, the house of the Vestal Virgins, the Senate house, and Julius Cesare’s tomb, among other important ancient ruins.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Palatine Hill, Piazza Santa Maria Nova, 53, 00186 Rome Italy
You’ll walk in the footsteps of Rome’s most brilliant and also psychotic Emperors as we discover Cesar’s Palace, officially called Palatine Hill. Palatine Hill is where Rome was founded nearly 3,000 years ago, and hosts structures dating from B.C. times, through the Renaissance, and most recently buildings built by Benito Mussolini.
Duration: 1 hour
