Colosseum Ancient Rome Exclusive Private Guided Tour | VIP Pick-up and Drop off, Roma, Lazio, Italy
Exclusive Private Walking Tour • Professional Local Licensed Blue Badge Tour Guide • Hotel pickup with Sanitized Vehicle (centrally located hotels. Within Aurelian Walls) • Skip-the-line Tickets • Pickup/drop off service (if Pick up option is selected) • Colosseum • Entry/Admission – Palatine Roman Forum
Enjoy our unique private guided 3-hour Tour of the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum in Rome. Bypass the queue at the Colosseum to avoid long waits. Visit the Colosseum and wander the fulcrum of ancient Rome at your leisure while listening to stories told by your expert tour guide about the gladiators, wild beasts, and sea battles that entertained up to 60,000 spectators. Explore the first and second tiers for great views. Then walk through the ruins of Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum with your guide, an art and archaeology expert. With this tour, you can maximize your time enjoying this excellent experience.
Tour is suitable for families with kids, small groups, and couples.
Description & Instructions When Visiting Roma, Lazio, Italy
Exclusive Private Walking Tour • Professional Local Licensed Blue Badge Tour Guide • Hotel pickup with Sanitized Vehicle (centrally located hotels. Within Aurelian Walls) • Skip-the-line Tickets • Pickup/drop off service (if Pick up option is selected) • Colosseum • Entry/Admission – Palatine Roman Forum
Enjoy our unique private guided 3-hour Tour of the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum in Rome. Bypass the queue at the Colosseum to avoid long waits. Visit the Colosseum and wander the fulcrum of ancient Rome at your leisure while listening to stories told by your expert tour guide about the gladiators, wild beasts, and sea battles that entertained up to 60,000 spectators. Explore the first and second tiers for great views. Then walk through the ruins of Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum with your guide, an art and archaeology expert. With this tour, you can maximize your time enjoying this excellent experience.
Tour is suitable for families with kids, small groups, and couples.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy
Visit Rome’s symbolic monument In the comfort of a private group (your party size), that makes it easy and fun for all ages. Bypass the queue at the Colosseum to avoid long waits. Explore the first and second tiers for great views. Learn about the amphitheater’s history from a guide with an art and archaeology background.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Palatine Hill, Piazza Santa Maria Nova, 53, 00186 Rome Italy
Walk through Palatine Hill, explore the site of an older settlement from the 9th century BC.
Admire the first settlements of the city of Rome and the Hippodrome, an elliptical sunken garden from the Palace of Domitian. Here, enjoy an impressive view of the Circus Maximus and the valley of the Roman Forum. Learn about the legend of Romulus and Remus, the abandoned brothers raised by a wolf who fought each other for power and control.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Roman Forum, Largo della Salara Vecchia 5/6, 00186 Rome Italy
You will then, visit the Roman Forum. This is one of the most important archaeological areas in the world with some of Ancient Rome’s most evocative ruins, including the Temple of Julius Caesar, Arch of Titus, House of the Vestal Virgins, Senate House and Basilica of Maxentius. Admire the Roman Forum’s Sacred Way, the triumphal road where the Centurions of Caesar marched after their return from countless battles and conquests.
Duration: 45 minutes
Pass By: Arco di Costantino, Via di San Gregorio, 00186 Rome Italy
The Arch of Constantine (Italian: Arco di Costantino) is a triumphal arch in Rome dedicated to the emperor Constantine the Great. The arch was commissioned by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in AD 312. Situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, the arch spans the Via triumphalis, the route taken by victorious military leaders when they entered the city in a triumphal procession. [a] Dedicated in 315, it is the largest Roman triumphal arch, with overall dimensions of[1] 21 m (69 ft) high, 25.9 m (85 ft) wide and 7.4 m (24 ft) deep. It has three bays, the central one being 11.5 m (38 ft) high and 6.5 m (21 ft) wide and the laterals 7.4 m (24 ft) by 3.4 m (11 ft) each.
Stop At: Arco di Tito, Via Sacra 1 Foro Romano, 00186 Rome Italy
The Arch of Titus (Italian: Arco di Tito; Latin: Arcus Titi) is a 1st-century AD honorific arch,[1] located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of the Roman Forum. It was constructed in c. 81 AD by Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus’s official deification or consecration and the victory of Titus together with their father, Vespasian, over the Jewish rebellion in Judaea.[2] The arch contains panels depicting the triumphal procession celebrated in 71 AD after the Roman victory culminating in the fall of Jerusalem,[2] and provides one of the few contemporary depictions of artefacts of Herod’s Temple.[citation needed] It became a symbol of the Jewish diaspora, and the menorah depicted on the arch served as the model for the menorah used as the emblem of the state of Israel.[3]
Duration: 5 minutes
Pass By: Basilica of Maxentius, Via Sacra 1 Clivo di Venere Felice, 00186 Rome Italy
The Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Italian: Basilica di Massenzio), sometimes known as the Basilica Nova—meaning “new basilica”—or Basilica of Maxentius, is an ancient building in the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy. It was the largest building in the Forum, and the last Roman basilica built in the city.
Pass By: Temple of Venus and Roma, Piazza di Santa Maria Nova, 53, 00100 Rome Italy
The Temple of Venus and Roma (Latin: Templum Veneris et Romae) is thought to have been the largest temple in Ancient Rome. Located on the Velian Hill, between the eastern edge of the Forum Romanum and the Colosseum, in Rome, it was dedicated to the goddesses Venus Felix (“Venus the Bringer of Good Fortune”) and Roma Aeterna (“Eternal Rome”).
The building was the creation of the emperor Hadrian and construction began in 121. It was officially inaugurated by Hadrian in 135 and finished in 141 under Antoninus Pius. Damaged by fire in 307,[1] it was restored with alterations by the emperor Maxentius.
Pass By: Curia Julia, Via Sacra 1 Roman Forum, 00186 Rome Italy
The Curia Julia (Latin: Curia Iulia, Italian: Curia Iulia) is the third named curia, or senate house, in the ancient city of Rome. It was built in 44 BC, when Julius Caesar replaced Faustus Cornelius Sulla’s reconstructed Curia Cornelia, which itself had replaced the Curia Hostilia. Caesar did so to redesign both spaces within the Comitium and the Roman Forum. The alterations within the Comitium reduced the prominence of the Senate and cleared the original space. The work, however, was interrupted by Caesar’s assassination at the Theatre of Pompey, where the Senate had been meeting temporarily while the work was completed.
The Curia Julia is one of a handful of Roman structures that survive mostly intact. This is due to its conversion into the basilica of Sant’Adriano al Foro in the 7th century and several later restorations. However, the roof, the upper elevations of the sidewalls and the rear façade are modern and date from the remodelling of the deconsecrated church, in the 1930s.
Pass By: Colle Capitolino, Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome Italy
The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill (/ˈkæpɪtəlaɪn, kəˈpɪt-/ KAP-it-ə-lyne, kə-PIT-;talian: Campidoglio [kampiˈdɔʎʎo]; Latin: Mons Capitolinus [ˈmõːs kapɪtoːˈliːnʊs]), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
The hill was earlier known as Mons Saturnius, dedicated to the god Saturn.[citation needed] The word Capitolium first meant the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus later built here, and afterwards, it was used for the whole hill (and even other temples of Jupiter on other hills), thus Mons Capitolinus (the adjective-noun of Capitolium). In an etymological myth, ancient sources connect the name to caput (“head”, “summit”) and the tale was that when laying the foundations for the temple, the head of a man was found, some sources even saying it was the head of some Tolus or Olus. The Capitolium was regarded by the Romans as indestructible and was adopted as a symbol of eternity.
Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
