Civitavecchia Trip Overview
An Exclusive private tour of Rome from the port of Civitavecchia with Driver & Licensed Tour Guide. Your guide will hop-off the vehicle with you at each stop and walk you through the attractions to provide the most complete insights of every attraction.
The tour starts at 7:30AM from the exit of your ship. Your driver will be waiting for you bearing a sign with your name. At 9AM you’ll arrive in Rome where you’ll meet your private guide.The lunch break will be from 1PM/2PM. After lunch you will start the private tour of the Vatican Museums until 4:30/5PM
The VIP tour of Rome includes the skip-the-line tickets and the private guided tour inside the Colosseum (1hr), the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter Basilica (2hrs).
You can choose one of the five options:
1. VIP tour of Rome – Colosseum & Vatican Museums
2. The Best of Rome
3. Underground & Catacombs
4. Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
5. Colosseum & Ancient City
6. Rome City Tour with English Speaking driver
Additional Info
Duration: 10 hours
Starts: Civitavecchia, Italy
Trip Category: Shore Excursions >> Ports of Call Tours
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An Exclusive private tour of Rome from the port of Civitavecchia with Driver & Licensed Tour Guide. Your guide will hop-off the vehicle with you at each stop and walk you through the attractions to provide the most complete insights of every attraction.
The tour starts at 7:30AM from the exit of your ship. Your driver will be waiting for you bearing a sign with your name. At 9AM you’ll arrive in Rome where you’ll meet your private guide.The lunch break will be from 1PM/2PM. After lunch you will start the private tour of the Vatican Museums until 4:30/5PM
The VIP tour of Rome includes the skip-the-line tickets and the private guided tour inside the Colosseum (1hr), the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter Basilica (2hrs).
You can choose one of the five options:
1. VIP tour of Rome – Colosseum & Vatican Museums
2. The Best of Rome
3. Underground & Catacombs
4. Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
5. Colosseum & Ancient City
6. Rome City Tour with English Speaking driver
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
One of the richest and most representative museums in the world. It would take weeks or maybe months to visit it completely and exhaustively. Rich in statues, paintings, sarcophagi, mosaics collected by the Popes since the Renaissance. It was the famous Pope Julius II who began, with his private collection, what would become an enormous concentration of artworks. The Sistine chapel is the real reason why thousands of people flock to museums every year to admire Michelangelo Buonarroti’s masterpieces: The Last Judgment and The Genesis. You will see Michelangelo’s marble masterpiece: La Pietà. The Basilica will surprise you with its majesty and rich decorations.
The Guide will be at your complete disposal in order to fulfill your desire for more information. At the end of the tour you will meet your driver again and continue the tour as scheduled or return to the hotel.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Built by Sixtus IV, from which it takes its name (Sistine Chapel) at the end of the fifteenth century, it is the pictorial representation of the old and new testament performed by the most important painters such as Perugino, Girlandaio, Botticelli to finish with Michelangelo’s masterpiece. Inside the “Cappella Magna” so called to stigmatize the religious and political importance of the place, it is not possible to speak, take photos or videos. Your private guide will give you the time necessary to appreciate the quality of the rich decoration. You will after enter through the door that will take you inside St. Peter’s Basilica.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter’s Basilica, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter’s is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome (these equivalent titles being held by the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome), St. Peter’s is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as “holding a unique position in the Christian world” and as “the greatest of all churches of Christendom”.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: St. Peter’s Square, Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy
The most famous baroque square in the world where during the conclave the crowd waits impatiently to see for the first time the face of the new Pope. Bernini’s colonnade represents the ideal embrace of Peter towards the faithful who have come for centuries to pray on his tomb. In the center one of the most ancient Egyptian obelisks which in ancient Rome was located in the center of the circus of Emperor Nero.
Your private tour comes to an end hoping that you enjoyed our tour and to see you again soon in Italy.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy
The Colosseum in Rome was the largest and most advanced amphitheatre the ancient world had ever seen. It is the main symbol of Rome. The famous Roman amphitheater was built between A.D. 70 and 72 by the emperor Vespasian and hosted events like gladiatorial and hunting games.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome Italy
The Capitoline Hill is the smallest and most important of the seven hills of Ancient Rome. As the political and religious heart of Rome the hill became a symbol of Rome’s reign as the capital of the world.
From the top of the Capitol your guide will show you the wonders of ancient Rome represented by the ruins of the Roman Forum, the largest monumental area in the world. A breathtaking view where you can take incredible photos to bring home the best memories of the Eternal City. A vast expanse of ruins of temples, basilicas and triumphal arches symbol of the power of Rome through the first thirteen centuries of Roman rule over almost all of Europe.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Circus Maximus, Via del Circo Massimo, 00186 Rome Italy
The Circus Maximus is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome, Italy. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine Hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.
Stop At: Roman Forum, Largo della Salara Vecchia 5/6, 00186 Rome Italy
The most famous monumetal area in the world. The political center of ancient Rome and symbol of the power of the Eternal City. The place where in the eighth century BC the city was founded and from where the Romans began their incredible history of conquests throughout Europe.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna, 00187 Rome Italy
The famous staircase of Rome. Its 135 steps connect Piazza di Spagna with the church above Piazza Trinità dei Monti. Built in the eighteenth century by Francesco de Santis today it is the place of shopping and ritual photos in front of the famous Bernini fountain located at the base of the staircase.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Piazza Venezia / Ancient City, Piazza Venezia / Ancient City, Rome, Lazio
Piazza Venezia is the central hub of Rome, Italy, in which several thoroughfares intersect, including the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the Via del Corso. It takes its name from the Palazzo Venezia, built by the Venetian Cardinal, Pietro Barbo alongside the church of Saint Mark, the patron saint of Venice.
Stop At: Pantheon, Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Rome Italy
The construction of the first Patheon dates back to 25BC by Marco Agrippa, an important Roman general and son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus. After 150 years the Emperor Hadrian rebuilds it in the same place and in the form that we can still admire today. After almost two thousand years we can still visit the ancient building and its incredible open dome. Since the beginning of the seventh century the Pantheon has been transformed into a church, the Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres.
A unique monument in the world, not to be missed even if you have already visited the Eternal City.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Rome Italy
The most beautiful and the most famous fountain in the world, symbol of the incomparable beauty of the Rome of the Popes. The fountain is located at the junction of three roads and more specifically it is built upon the ‘terminal point’ of the Acqua Virgo, one of Rome’s most important aqueducts that transports drinking water to the Eternal City.
You cannot miss the visit to the famous fountain where to throw the coins to be sure to return to Rome in the future.
Duration: 15 minutes
