Roma Trip Overview
Value your time and get the best of Rome’s highlights with this whirlwind full-day tour. This tour, tailored to travelers with a short time frame, combines the main features of Colosseum and Vatican City, with the privilege of a unique skip-the-line entrance and official professional guides!
Discover the original settlement where it’s supposed Rome was founded; admire some of the most significant ancient ruins still existing and get amazed by stories about the thrilling games performed inside the Colosseum.
Take a little break and meet us again directly at the Vatican, where admire one of the greatest collections of art in the world.
Here you’ll find the main representatives of Italian art and incredible masterpieces like the “Last Judgment” by Michelangelo.
End your tour at the Sistine Chapel.
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Duration: 5 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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Value your time and get the best of Rome’s highlights with this whirlwind full-day tour. This tour, tailored to travelers with a short time frame, combines the main features of Colosseum and Vatican City, with the privilege of a unique skip-the-line entrance and official professional guides!
Discover the original settlement where it’s supposed Rome was founded; admire some of the most significant ancient ruins still existing and get amazed by stories about the thrilling games performed inside the Colosseum.
Take a little break and meet us again directly at the Vatican, where admire one of the greatest collections of art in the world.
Here you’ll find the main representatives of Italian art and incredible masterpieces like the “Last Judgment” by Michelangelo.
End your tour at the Sistine Chapel.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy
Visit Rome’s symbolic monument with a tour that makes it easy and fun for all ages. Learn about the amphitheater’s history from a guide with an art and archaeology background.
Learn about the spectacular games and bloody battles that were held inside. Hear about the techniques of construction invented by the Romans, the incredible ability of the gladiators, the violent fighting between exotic animals and the high level of technology achieved by Roman engineers to built the Colosseum.
Walk around the first tiers and reach the arena to learn about the trapdoors and all the mechanisms used to animate the games. Your guide will keep you entertained with stories of sea-battles, the cages where lions were kept before the games started, the rooms in which gladiators were waiting before they reached the arena, the executions, and the excitement of the spectators attending the most spectacular, fantastic, and expensive games in human history.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Rome, Rome, Lazio
After the Colosseum guided tour, you can join some free time. Take a break before starting the second part of your tour. You can enjoy a traditional lunch in Rome city center (not included). We’ll meet you again at our office in Via Leone IV 6 by 1:30 pm, where your guide will be waiting for you eager to discover the most exciting museum worldwide: the Vatican Museum.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Let’s get into the history and secrets of the Catholic Church and hear about the rivalry between the Renaissance artists.
Discover the treasures hosted by one of the largest and most-visited museums of the world enriched by a huge number of masterpieces collected through time.
Admire the best of the ancient world visiting the Greek and Roman sculpture section. A collection of classical art masterpieces where admire the beauty of several sculpture groups, as for example the statue of Laocoön and His Sons that is one of the most famous ancient sculptures.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Pass By: Vatican Gardens, Viale Vaticano presso Musei Vaticani, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Enjoy a spectacular panoramic view of the Vatican Garden
and much more …
Stop At: Galleria dei Candelabri, 00120, Vatican City
Pass along the Chandelier Gallery, named by the several marble chandelier decorating this section.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Gallery of Tapestries, VA, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
Be astonished by the elegant Tapestry gallery, wallpapered by the finest tapestry worldwide, realized by Raphael’s disciples.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Gallery of Maps, VA, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
Visit the Maps Gallery, a complete exhibition of maps representing Italy as it was seen by cartographer in 1581.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Sistine Chapel, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Vatican City Italy
Admire the major representatives of Italian art such as Leonardo, Perugino, Beato Angelico, and many more
Towards the end of this tour you will visit the beautiful Sistine Chapel to admire Michelangelo’s masterpiece: The Last Judgement.
Duration: 30 minutes
