The Colosseum and Ancient Rome private tour
Colosseum and Roman Forum Tour with private, exclusive Guide
A fascinating guided visit to discover the most important aercheological treasures of the ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the most famous symbol of the Roman Empire.
ANCIENT ROME TOUR DETAILS
DURATION: about 3 hours
AVAILABILITY:every day except for 1st January, 1st May, 25th December.
DESCRIPTION: the tour includes a detailed visit of the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
Price includes: private guide service for 3 hours, pre-reserved entrance tickets to the Colosseum and Roman Forum, headphones for groups over 10 visitors.
Price does not include: Palatine Museum ticket.
Full ticket: € 16,00 + € 2,00 reservation fee
Reduced ticket: € 2,00 + € 2,00 reservation fee
Free ticket: € 0,00 reservation fee
The Colosseum and Ancient Rome Private Tour itinerary
This tour lasts about 3 hours. The tour itinerary can be personalized according to any visitors’ special request.
The standard schedule usually includes a deep visit of the Colosseum with an interior visit of the monument (hypogeum section is never included), the Roman Forum, the Arch of Tutus and the Arch of Costantine and on request the Paltine Hill. The Palatine museum is not oncluded in this tour. On request it is possible to include the Palatine as well. In this case, Palatine museum ticket has to be paid on site in cash.
This tour will introduce you to Rome's ancient history and the beauty of its monuments.
The sites you will visit on this tour have a long, rich history. Their excellent state of conservation make these archaeological remains of incomparable value.
In Roman times, emperors were considered full-fledged divinities. This meant that incredible works of art were built for them. and these monuments today continue to amaze thousands of tourists. impressing not only for their size but for the purposes for which they were designed.
The Colosseum is one of the most famous and important buildings in the world, and it is Rome's truest icon.
This is the first stop on the tour led by our expert guide.
Our professional licensed guide will focus completely on you and your needs for three hours. When we go inside the Colosseum — the Flavian Amphitheater — we immediately grasp the power and grandeur that the emperors wanted to impress on the people of Rome. Inside, your guide will tell you about the Colosseum's architecture. Your guide will also detail its long, many-parted history. You will be shown the monument's many varied spaces and areas and hear how they were used.
The tour will continue to the Roman Forum, once Ancient Rome's main center. This area was key to Rome's culture, economy, and administration. You will tour the Roman Forum strolling through its many ruins, some very well preserved. Your guide will tell you how the Forum was arranged and how it looked in the times of Ancient Romans.
Two arches particularly amaze for their majesty in the Forum, just a few steps from the Colosseum: the Arch of Constantine and the Arch of Titus. These two monuments' sculptural qualities show us the stylistic changes through the eras. A triumphal arch's key purpose was to celebrate victories, trophies, and conquests of the emperor they were built for. Both arches are lavishly decorated with bas-reliefs of great artistic quality depicting scenes of war and triumph.
Next, your tour to discover Ancient Rome comes to the Palatine Hill, a significant site for Rome's origins, as It was here that the first huts were built where the future capital's very first inhabitants lived.
This amazing tour is definitely not to be passed up if you want to truly get to know the Eternal City!
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Italy Travels tour guides staff is represented by licensed guides of great experience and high level of professionalism, competence and excellence on their job. All Italy Travels guides are authorized by the provincial administration of Rome and most of them are art historians and teachers in art subjects.
All guided tours organized by Italy Travels always include pre-reserved museum tickets when museum tours are included in the tour itinerary. In this way visitors avoid waisting time waiting in line in front of museums ticket offices.
