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With this tour you can enjoy an overview of the best sites that Rome can offer plus a private Vatican tour with an official guide in one day only.
From the port of Civitavecchia, it will take 1 .15 minute to drive to Rome center.Your tour will normally start at Piazza Venezia where Victor Emanuel Monument (the Vittoriano) is located, also called the Wedding cake by Americans.
We will continue on to the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Arch of Costantine, the Circus Maximus, Capitol Hill, the Palatine Hill, the Catacombs (optional) and the Ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla.
While on our tour (depending on the Vatican guide's schedule) we will arrange to meet one of our Vatican guides, that will be waiting for you at the Vatican entrance, to take you on the 2 hour tour of the Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel.
After all this we will return towards the center of Rome for a visit inside the Pantheon, we'll walk through Piazza Navona, visit the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain. And don’t forget to throw a few coins in the Trevi Fountain!
During this tour, if you like, we can stop for a traditional Italian lunch (not included) at one of the many nice restaurants and maybe do some shopping.
.Hightlights
COLOSSEUM
Completed 80 A.D., the circus was home to centuries of gladiatorial combats and featured 76 numbered entrances, marble seats and subterranean passages, where animals and apparatus were kept. The arena floor could be flooded to host naval combats.
ROMAN FORUM
The ruins of the forum stand in mute testimony to what Byron described as the “grandeur that was Rome”.
SISTINE CHAPEL
The gem of the Vatican Museum is the celebrated chapel that is home to Michelangelo’s frescoes ‘The Creation’ and ‘The Last Judgement’.
SPANISH STEPS
The heart of Rome’s old Bohemian Quarter (Keats and Shelley lived nearby), the steps take their name from the 16th century Spanish Embassy to the Holy Sea. Today the area surrounding Piazza Espagna is the city’s chic shopping district.
ST. PETER'S BASILICA
By far the largest church in the world, St. Peter’s Basilica took more than 100 years to build. Some of the greatest figures of the Renaissance were employed in its creation, from Bramante and Bernini to Michelangelo and Raphael.
TREVI FOUNTAIN
Blue-green water cascades over the Baroque figures of Rome’s most famous fountain. Follow custom and toss a coin into the fountain, a gesture that insures your return to the Eternal City.
VATICAN CITY
The spiritual and administrative centre of Roman Catholicism is also one of the smallest independent states in the world. The Vatican mints its own coins, prints its own stamps, and maintains its own army of Swiss Guards.
Please note:
The proposed itineraries are only examples of possible tours. For different pick up / drop off locations or customized itineraries we invite our clients to contact one of our tour coordinators to help them design their own tour
INCLUDED
Luxury air conditioned vehicle
English speaking driver
All taxes, parking, tolls, gasoline and driver maintenance
NOT INCLUDED
Meals and drinks
Entrance fees, official vatican guide( you will pay directly at the end of vatican tour )required - unless otherwise specified
