Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill 3-Hour Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Colosseum

  Your reserved slot takes you straight to the security check and inside, onto the first and second tiers. From the walkway you look down into the hypogeum, the two-level basement of tunnels and lifts that pushed animals and gladiators up into the arena, and out across seating built to hold roughly 50,000 people in a stadium that could empty in minutes. Your guide covers how the games were staged, funded and eventually abandoned.

  45 minutes • Admission ticket included
• Arch of Constantine (Pass by)

  On the way out you pass beneath the largest triumphal arch left standing in Rome, 21 metres high and raised in AD 315 for Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge. Look closely at the sculpture: much of it was stripped from earlier monuments to Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, with the old emperors' faces recut into Constantine's.

  Admission ticket free
• Arco di Tito (Pass by)

  At the top of the Via Sacra stands the arch Domitian raised to his brother Titus in AD 81. Inside the passage, one relief shows the spoils of Jerusalem carried in triumph through Rome — the seven-branched menorah taken from the Temple in AD 70, and one of the few surviving Roman images of it.

  Admission ticket free
• 2
  Palatine Hill

  The last climb takes you up to where Augustus, Domitian and their successors built their palaces — the hill that gave every European language its word for "palace". You walk through the ruins of the Domus Augustana and along the sunken Stadium of Domitian, ending at the terrace above the Circus Maximus with the Forum, Piazza Venezia and the Colosseum laid out below.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• 3
  Foro Romano

  You walk down the Via Sacra into the Forum itself, along the route triumphal processions took. Your guide picks out what the ruins were: the Curia where the Senate met, the eight surviving columns of the Temple of Saturn that held the treasury, the round temple where the Vestals kept the fire lit, and the spot where Caesar was cremated, still marked with flowers.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Please bring a Valid ID Document of all participants in order to enter to the Colosseum.
• Please provide the full names of all travelers when booking. Failure to present a voucher with all travelers' full names at the ticket office prior to entry may result in denied entry to the Colosseum and Roman Forum.
• Aerosols, sharp objects and large backpacks will not be allowed
• Kindly insert full name for all participants at you party. Please note that the names not included in the list will not gain access to the Colosseum. Please bring a valid identification card or passport.

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