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Rome private Chauffeured Sightseeing and Appian Way Catacombs Small Group Tour
Recommended for your Rome trip
Free Cancellation
up to 24 hours in advance
6 hours (Approx.)
Pickup from select hotels
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Good for avoiding crowds
Keeping you safe during COVID-19
What you can expect during your visit
Face masks required for travelers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitized between use
Overview
For first-time visitors to Rome, a tour of the Colosseum is a must, but you could easily spend over an hour queuing to get inside. Instead, enjoy skip-the-line entrance and a guided tour, then use your 48- or 72-hour Roma Pass to explore sights such as Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum, including unlimited use of public transport.
- 1-hour Colosseum tour and 48- or 72-hour Roma Pass
- Avoid the crowds with skip-the-line access and a guided tour of the Colosseum
- Use your Roma Pass to gain free or discounted entry to sights such as Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum
- Enjoy unlimited access to public transport, including metro, bus, and tram lines
- Choice of different departure times available
- Ideal tour for first-time visitors to Rome
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Meet your guide near the Colosseum in time for a 10am, 11am, or 1pm departure, and start by admiring the Colosseum from the outside, as your guide tells you a little about the ancient amphitheater, which dates back to 72AD.
Next, use your skip-the-line entrance tickets to gain priority access to the Colosseum and follow your guide around the remarkably preserved ruins, listening to tales of Roman emperors, wild beasts, and gladiators.
At the end of your tour, bid your guide farewell and continue sightseeing independently, making use of your 48- or 72-hour Roma Pass. Valid from the start of your Colosseum tour, the pass offers unlimited access to metro trains, buses, and trams throughout the city, as well as free or discounted access (depending on card selected) to some of the city’s most important museums and archeological sites.
Next, use your skip-the-line entrance tickets to gain priority access to the Colosseum and follow your guide around the remarkably preserved ruins, listening to tales of Roman emperors, wild beasts, and gladiators.
At the end of your tour, bid your guide farewell and continue sightseeing independently, making use of your 48- or 72-hour Roma Pass. Valid from the start of your Colosseum tour, the pass offers unlimited access to metro trains, buses, and trams throughout the city, as well as free or discounted access (depending on card selected) to some of the city’s most important museums and archeological sites.
Itinerary
Prepare to be overwhelmed by the magical atmosphere of Rome after your driver picks you up from your central accommodations. Along the way around the City, you may have some short stops in order to take some photos.
Get closer to the main places and monuments in Rome, enjoying the fascinating and magical atmosphere created by the night-time lighting.
Admire the enlightened Colosseum. Although partially ruined because of damage caused by earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is still an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome and is listed as one of the most important archaeological areas worldwide and one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions.
Duration: 20 minutes
Admission Ticket Not Included
Take a stop to admire the Trevi Fountain, that is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world, even appeared in several iconic movies like "La Dolce Vita" and "Roman Holiday",the great decorating sculptures of this baroque masterpiece, creating a magical and romantic atmosphere.
Belonging to the fountain is the legend whereby throwing a coin in the fountain you will ensure your return in Rome.
Duration: 20 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
Take a look at one of the most important squares in Rome admiring form the external side the greatness of the Vatican. In the middle of the square rises an elegant ancient Egyptian obelisk flanked by two granite fountains, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Carlo Maderno designed, all surrounded by a massive Doric colonnades.
Located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, is enriched by 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,[1][2] 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: 20 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
Enjoy the breathtaking views of Rome from the terrace of Gianicolo, one of the best locations in the town for a scenic view of central Rome with its domes and bell towers. While enjoying one of the most incredible and breathtaking panoramic views of the sparkling Eternal City raise a toast to celebrate this magical moment before being carried to our office in Via Della Polveriera 8, where the first part of your tour ends.
Take a short lunch break (lunch is not included) and then come back to our office where the second part of your tour starts.
Duration: 40 minutes
Admission Ticket Free
After your lunch break, get ready to start again! Starting, with a small group, from our travel agency, near the Colosseum, you will be comfortably transported on an air-conditioned vehicle, in one of the most interesting and visited places in Rome, the "catacombs" on the Via Appia Antica.
Walk along the majestic Aurelian Walls and come to the archaeological area of the Via Appia Antica, immersed in the green Roman countryside, you will descend into the ancient world of the Catacombs, a complex network of underground tunnels among the longest in the world, which occupies an area of about fifteen hectares, consisting of about 60 kilometers of tunnels on several levels. The catacombs that we will visit (San Calisto, San Sebastiano or Santa Domitilla), for your tour will change depending on the day, but from where we go, you will have the opportunity to see ancient frescoes, crypts rich in inscriptions carved in the walls, niches with still remains of skeletons, small mausoleums, sarcophagi, tombs and small chapels that still today, after about 2000 years, are still used to celebrate religious rites.
Duration: 2 hours
Admission Ticket Included
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Product code: 20905P41
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