Roma Trip Overview
See the magnificent highlights of Vatican City with the advantage of the skip-the-line entrance and official professional guides. Explore one of the most extraordinary collections of art in the world; pause in the Sistine Chapel; admire Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
After your Vatican tour, we will reserve for you a transfer in a de-luxe car with a driver to reach the Catacombs on the Ancient Appian Way, and enjoy an in-depth experience in one of the most exciting and visited places in Rome. 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: 5 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
See the magnificent highlights of Vatican City with the advantage of the skip-the-line entrance and official professional guides. Explore one of the most extraordinary collections of art in the world; pause in the Sistine Chapel; admire Michelangelo’s masterpiece.
After your Vatican tour, we will reserve for you a transfer in a de-luxe car with a driver to reach the Catacombs on the Ancient Appian Way, and enjoy an in-depth experience in one of the most exciting and visited places in Rome. 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: Vatican City, Vatican City, Lazio
Introduction on the Vatican City and Vatican History while entering into the Museum.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00120 Vatican City Italy
Discover the treasures hosted by one of the largest and most-visited museums of the world enriched by a considerable number of masterpieces collected through time.
Duration: 1 hour 30 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: 40 minutes
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
