Rome in a Day Colosseum, Vatican and Gems of Rome - option Private or Semi Private Tour
Rome, Italy
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Trip Type: Full-day Tours
Duration: 6 hours 30 minutes
Semi Private tour 13 people max in the morning. Fast entrance included (depending on the tour option selected). Colosseum, Imperial Forum, Venice Square, the Sacred Area where Julius Caesar was murdered, the Pantheon and Navona Square, the most famous baroque masterpiece. The adventure continues in the afternoon through the enchanted places of the Vatican city. The second part is a small group tour that includes the beautiful Vatican Museums, the fascinating Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. Take a step back in time to the age of gladiators, great rulers, emperors and popes, art and Roman history! The first 3 hour skip the line tour bring together all the multi facets of Ancient Rome. This experience also allows you to learn about obelisks and ancient divine statues, medieval buildings, renaissance and baroque monuments and fountains, legends and traditions still alive, because this tour includes some of the main attractions of Rome.
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Semi Private tour 13 people max in the morning. Fast entrance included (depending on the tour option selected). Colosseum, Imperial Forum, Venice Square, the Sacred Area where Julius Caesar was murdered, the Pantheon and Navona Square, the most famous baroque masterpiece. The adventure continues in the afternoon through the enchanted places of the Vatican city. The second part is a small group tour that includes the beautiful Vatican Museums, the fascinating Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. Take a step back in time to the age of gladiators, great rulers, emperors and popes, art and Roman history! The first 3 hour skip the line tour bring together all the multi facets of Ancient Rome. This experience also allows you to learn about obelisks and ancient divine statues, medieval buildings, renaissance and baroque monuments and fountains, legends and traditions still alive, because this tour includes some of the main attractions of Rome.
Morning Tour: The Colosseum and the Gems of Rome
Evening Tour: The Vatican Museums with Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica
A visit to a museum is also an adventure and a game. This is a special tour with curiosities, legends and games. You will discover many things while having fun, such as that when you enter the Vatican Museums, you’re entering the Vatican City State. It’s the smallest but probably the most famous city state in the world. The private collection of the pope is packed of artworks: ancient statues from Egypt, Greece and Rome, sarcophagus, busts, frescoes and tapestries, but also painting made in any period of the history. Thanks to his collection historians could write the history of humanity.
Walk into the shoes of the famous gladiators, Commodus and Spartacus, and prominent leaders, Julius Caesar and Augustus, in this first 3 hour skip the line tour. Place yourself in the centre of a large arena with over 60,000 chanting spectators ready to watch you in all your glory – welcome to the Colosseum. This iconic symbol of Imperial Rome was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on classical mythology.
Next, you will walk along the Imperial Fora, a series of public squares constructed between 46 B.C. and 113 A.D, getting to Venice Square that still celebrates the Unification of Italy with its imposing national monument, the Vittoriano. With you local guide you will stop in Torre di Largo Argentina to meditate on the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.
From here move to Piazza della Rotonda where you will find in front of you one of the most beautiful and best preserved building from ancient times, the Pantheon. It’s story begins nearly 2000 years ago when Agrippa, faithful friend of Augustus had a temple which was dedicated to all gods in the heaven. In those days it looked very different. It was Hadrian who rebuilt the Pantheon as you see it now. Finish the tour in Navona Square, one of the most elegant squares in the world, the symbol of the Roman baroque.
Evening Tour: The Vatican Museums with Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica
A visit to a museum is also an adventure and a game. This is a special tour with curiosities, legends and games. You will discover many things while having fun, such as that when you enter the Vatican Museums, you’re entering the Vatican City State. It’s the smallest but probably the most famous city state in the world. The private collection of the pope is packed of artworks: ancient statues from Egypt, Greece and Rome, sarcophagus, busts, frescoes and tapestries, but also painting made in any period of the history. Thanks to his collection historians could write the history of humanity.
You mustn't miss the Sistine Chapel which was frescoed by Michelangelo. Follow your tour guide into St Peter’s basilica. This church is rich in works of art and monuments. Here are some of them that you can’t miss: the Canopy by Bernini, the bronze statue of St. Peter, the Pietà by Michelangelo. Leave the church and look at the center where there is the obelisk brought from Egypt. At the end turn around St Peter Square to enjoy the magnificent colonnade by Bernini, it seems almost to wrap you in an embrace.
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