Rome Trip Overview
Skip the long lines to the Colosseum and Vatican on a 6-hour tour of Rome, with lunch. Follow in the footsteps of Roman emperors, gladiators, and popes on a combined tour of some of the city’s most fabled sites, and admire magnificent works of art.
(Please note that you will receive an entry voucher ticket for Saint Callixtus Catacomb redeemable in any other days/ not transfer included/not usable on the same day of the tour)
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Skip the long lines to the Colosseum and Vatican on a 6-hour tour of Rome, with lunch. Follow in the footsteps of Roman emperors, gladiators, and popes on a combined tour of some of the city’s most fabled sites, and admire magnificent works of art.
(Please note that you will receive an entry voucher ticket for Saint Callixtus Catacomb redeemable in any other days/ not transfer included/not usable on the same day of the tour)
Itinerary
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Stop At: Sistine Chapel Savona, Piazza del Duomo Via Ambrogio Aonzo di fronte al Vico del Marmo, 17100 Savona Italy
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope, in Vatican City. The chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescos that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The Vatican museums represent the most visited museums by tourists traveling in Italy.
Vatican Museums are located in Viale Vaticano in Rome, within the Vatican City State. Founded by Pope Julius II in the 16th century, they occupy a large part of the vast courtyard of the Belvedere and they have one of the largest art collections in the world, since they exhibit the huge collection of works of art accumulated over the centuries by the Popes
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Stanze di Raffaello, Viale Vaticano, Vatican City Italy
The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms, now part of the Vatican Museums in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Vatican City, officially Vatican City State is an independent city-state enclaved within Rome.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
St. Peter’s Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave inside Rome.
At the centre of the square is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the massive Doric colonnades,four columns deep, which embrace visitors in “the maternal arms of Mother Church”. A granite fountain constructed by Bernini in 1675 matches another fountain designed by Carlo Maderno in 1613.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Via dei Fori Imperiali, 00186 Rome Italy
The Via dei Fori Imperiali is a road in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, that runs in a straight line from the Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum. Its course takes it over parts of the Forum of Trajan, Forum of Augustus and Forum of Nerva, parts of which can be seen on both sides of the road.
Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy
The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome. Built of travertine, tuff, and brick-faced concrete, it is the largest amphitheatre ever built. The Colosseum is situated just east of the Roman Forum. Construction started with the emperor Vespasian in AD 72, and was completed in AD 80 under his successor and heir Titus. Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (81–96). These three emperors are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named in Latin for its association with their family name (Flavius). On the other hand, the name Colosseum is believed to be derived from a colossal statue of Nero that once stood nearby.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Roman Forum, Largo della Salara Vecchia 5/6, 00186 Rome Italy
The Roman Forum was where religious and public life in ancient Rome took place. This place was home to many of the ancient city’s most impressive temples and monuments.
Inside the Roman Forum you can admire the senate house, the first Temple of Saturn, the Arch of Titus, the Temple of Vesta, Temple of Castor and Pollux and the Sacra Via.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Catacombs of Saint Callixtus, Via Appia Antica 110, 00179 Rome Italy
The catacombs of St. Callixtus are among the greatest and most important of Rome. They originated about the middle of the second century and are part of a cemeterial complex which occupies an area of 90 acres, with a network of galleries about 12 miles long, in four levels, more than twenty meters deep. In it were buried tens of martyrs, 16 popes and very many Christians.
Duration: 2 hours