Small-Group Rome and Vatican City in a Day with Skip the Line Access
Rome, Italy
Trip Type: Ancient Rome Tours
Duration: 6 hours
This is a small-group guided tour with fast entrance inside the attractions. Take a step back in time to the age of gladiators, great rulers, emperors and popes, art and Roman history. The first 3-hour skip the line tour brings together all the multi facets of Ancient Rome. The second 3-hours of the tour includes the beautiful Vatican Museums, the fascinating Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. This experience also allows you to learn about obelisks and ancient divine statues, medieval buildings, renaissance and baroque monuments and fountains, legends and traditions still alive.
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This is a small-group guided tour with fast entrance inside the attractions. Take a step back in time to the age of gladiators, great rulers, emperors and popes, art and Roman history. The first 3-hour skip the line tour brings together all the multi facets of Ancient Rome. The second 3-hours of the tour includes the beautiful Vatican Museums, the fascinating Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. This experience also allows you to learn about obelisks and ancient divine statues, medieval buildings, renaissance and baroque monuments and fountains, legends and traditions still alive.Morning Tour: The Colosseum and the Gems of Rome
After meeting your guide at the designated meeting point, you'll step into the shoes of the famous gladiators, Commodus and Spartacus, and prominent leaders, Julius Caesar and Augustus, in this first 3-hour skip-the-line tour. Place yourself in the center of a large arena with over 60,000 chanting spectators ready to watch you in all your glory.
Welcome to the Colosseum. This iconic symbol of Imperial Rome was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on classical mythology. Next, you will walk along the Imperial Fora, a series of public squares constructed between 46 B.C. and 113 A.D, leading to Venice Square which still celebrates the Unification of Italy with its imposing national monument, the Vittoriano.
With your local guide, you will stop in Torre di Largo Argentina to meditate on the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated. From here move to Piazza della Rotonda where you will find one of the most beautiful and best preserved buildings from ancient times, the Pantheon. It’s story begins nearly 2,000 years ago when Agrippa, faithful friend of Augustus, had a temple which was dedicated to all gods in the heaven. In those days it looked very different. It was Hadrian who rebuilt the Pantheon as you see it now. Finish-up the tour in Navona Square, one of the most elegant squares in the world, the symbol of the Roman baroque.
Evening Tour: The Vatican Museums with Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica
Part two starts with a visit to a museum that is an adventure and a game, a special tour with curiosities, legends and games. You will discover many things while having fun, such as when you enter the Vatican Museums, you’re entering the Vatican City State. It’s the smallest but probably the most famous city state in the world.
The private collection of the pope is packed with artworks - ancient statues from Egypt, Greece and Rome, sarcophagus, busts, frescoes and tapestries, as well as paintings from numerous periods throughout history. Thanks to his collection, historians could write much of the history of humanity.
You mustn't miss the Sistine Chapel with its frescoes by Michelangelo. Follow your tour guide into St Peter’s basilica. This church is rich in works of art and monuments. Here are some of them that you can’t miss: the Canopy by Bernini, the bronze statue of St. Peter, the Pietà by Michelangelo. Leave the church and see the center bearing the obelisk brought from Egypt. At the end turn around St Peter Square to enjoy the magnificent colonnade by Bernini, it seems almost to wrap you in an embrace.
After meeting your guide at the designated meeting point, you'll step into the shoes of the famous gladiators, Commodus and Spartacus, and prominent leaders, Julius Caesar and Augustus, in this first 3-hour skip-the-line tour. Place yourself in the center of a large arena with over 60,000 chanting spectators ready to watch you in all your glory.
Welcome to the Colosseum. This iconic symbol of Imperial Rome was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on classical mythology. Next, you will walk along the Imperial Fora, a series of public squares constructed between 46 B.C. and 113 A.D, leading to Venice Square which still celebrates the Unification of Italy with its imposing national monument, the Vittoriano.
With your local guide, you will stop in Torre di Largo Argentina to meditate on the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated. From here move to Piazza della Rotonda where you will find one of the most beautiful and best preserved buildings from ancient times, the Pantheon. It’s story begins nearly 2,000 years ago when Agrippa, faithful friend of Augustus, had a temple which was dedicated to all gods in the heaven. In those days it looked very different. It was Hadrian who rebuilt the Pantheon as you see it now. Finish-up the tour in Navona Square, one of the most elegant squares in the world, the symbol of the Roman baroque.
Evening Tour: The Vatican Museums with Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica
Part two starts with a visit to a museum that is an adventure and a game, a special tour with curiosities, legends and games. You will discover many things while having fun, such as when you enter the Vatican Museums, you’re entering the Vatican City State. It’s the smallest but probably the most famous city state in the world.
The private collection of the pope is packed with artworks - ancient statues from Egypt, Greece and Rome, sarcophagus, busts, frescoes and tapestries, as well as paintings from numerous periods throughout history. Thanks to his collection, historians could write much of the history of humanity.
You mustn't miss the Sistine Chapel with its frescoes by Michelangelo. Follow your tour guide into St Peter’s basilica. This church is rich in works of art and monuments. Here are some of them that you can’t miss: the Canopy by Bernini, the bronze statue of St. Peter, the Pietà by Michelangelo. Leave the church and see the center bearing the obelisk brought from Egypt. At the end turn around St Peter Square to enjoy the magnificent colonnade by Bernini, it seems almost to wrap you in an embrace.
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