Roma Trip Overview
Don’t lose the chance to have a remarkable and unique experience inside one of the most mysterious places in Rome: The Catacombs!
You’ll descend into a complex network of underground tunnels, among the longest in the world, where you can admire ancient frescoes, crypts rich in inscriptions, small mausoleums, sarcophagi, tombs. You’ll also find the burial of famous people like popes, martyrs, and, according to legends, even some apostles.
The catacombs that we’ll visit (San Calisto, San Sebastiano, or Santa Domitilla) will change depending on the day.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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Don’t lose the chance to have a remarkable and unique experience inside one of the most mysterious places in Rome: The Catacombs!
You’ll descend into a complex network of underground tunnels, among the longest in the world, where you can admire ancient frescoes, crypts rich in inscriptions, small mausoleums, sarcophagi, tombs. You’ll also find the burial of famous people like popes, martyrs, and, according to legends, even some apostles.
The catacombs that we’ll visit (San Calisto, San Sebastiano, or Santa Domitilla) will change depending on the day.
Stop At: Parco Archeologico dell’Appia Antica, Piazza delle Finanze 1, 00185 Rome Italy
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.
Here you will find the burial of famous people like popes, martyrs and, according to legends, even some apostles.
After the tour, back in the sunlight, your driver will take you back to the original starting point in Via Della Polveriera.
Duration: 2 hours
