Italy Hotline - Rome ancient city private tours: Coliseum, Forum, Palatine, Capitoline

Explore the mysteries of the Ancient City as revealed through the many fascinating archeological sites in the center of Rome.

Your guide will show you the signs of the Western World’s pagan roots revealed in the layers of the Ancient City, illuminating religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions that date back to the founding of Rome nearly 2800 years ago. Witness the remains of the ancient pagan world, and how it was forever altered by the great rise of the monotheistic Eastern religions and mystery cults during the evocative era or Julius Caesar, Augustus and Cicero.

Complete Ancient City

This 5 hour tour includes the Pantheon, Largo Argentina temples, Capitoline Hill, Trajan’s Markets and Column, the Forum of Augustus, the Temple of Mars, The Temple of Minerva, The Imperial Forum, Mamertine Prison, the Arch of Constantine, the Coliseum, the Palatine Hill, the Circus Maximus.

Cost of this tour is 330 Euros*
Entrance fees (Coliseum)**

Ancient City Express

This 3 hour tour includes the Imperial Forums, Tomb of Julius Caesar, Vestal Virgin Altar, Basilica of Maxentius, Arch of Septimus Severus, Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina, Arch of Titus, Mamertine Prison, Arch of Constantine, the Coliseum, Capitoline Hill and Palatine Hill with view of the Circus Maximus.

Cost of this tour is 230 Euros*
Entrance fees (Coliseum)**

Baths and Circuses

In this 3 hour tour your guide brings to life the world of Imperial Rome as we visit some of the most impressive sites of the games, races, theaters, baths and temples, revealing just how advanced society was two thousand years ago! Witness one of the largest bath houses in Rome and learn about what it was like to bathe there. See the site of the largest stadium created in the Ancient World and find out just how wild the games were.

We also visit two of the oldest standing temples in Rome, and the Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin with the famous Mouth of Truth. Entering the Jewish Ghetto we will see the impressive remains of the Theater of Marcellus and the Portico of Octavia. We end the tour at the only island in Rome, the lovely Tiber Island (which was once disguised as a ship!) with views of the Tiber River and graced by a delicious gelateria. This three hour tour includes the Baths of Caracalla, the Circus Maximus, the Temple of Portuna, the Temple of Hercules Victor, the Arch of Janus, Santa Maria in Cosmedin, the Mouth of Truth, the Theater of Marcellus, the Portico of Octavia and the Tiber Island.

Cost of this tour is 230 Euros*
Entrance fees (Baths of Caracalla)**

The Roman Forum

Bronze Hercules, Capitoline Museum

Coliseum, viewed from the Palatine Hill

Ancient City Full Day Immersion

This 8 hour tour includes the sites listed above as well as the underground site of San Clemente, the Capitoline Museum and a break for lunch at a local Roman Trattoria in the ancient district of the Suburra, the first suburb of ancient Rome.

Cost of this tour is 440 Euros*
Entrance fees (Coliseum, Capitoline, San Clemente)**

Ancient City/Vatican

This unique 8 hour tour is for those who want to expand their understanding of how our culture came to be as it is today. Digging back through the layers of both ancient and modern Christian tradition, your guide will unearth for you our pagan roots. Rome is perhaps the only place on earth in which one can simultaneously view the religious and spiritual traditions of the last 2800 years stacked one atop another. The Roman Empire in the first centuries after Christ was a place in which many faiths competed for the hearts and minds of the people. In the end, the Christians won this spiritual battle, or did they? Discover how the pagan mind returned to medieval Rome, gave birth to the Renaissance, and shook the Church's very foundations.

Your guide will take you around the city in a highly specialized and enthralling tour of religious traditions starting with the Vatican City and then exploring the Ancient City, examining how the soul of man still speaks through its art and architecture across the centuries.

Mid-day we stop for a delicious Italian meal in a restaurant selected by our staff for its authentic Roman cuisine.

Cost of this tour is 440 Euros*
Entrance fees (Vatican, Coliseum)**

**Coliseum: 10 Euros per person; Baths of Caracalla: 6 Euros per person; San Clemente: 5 Euros per person, Capitoline Museum: 6.50 Euros per person (closed Mondays); Vatican Museum: 14 Euros per adult, 8 Euros per child/student with ID (dress code).

*10% discount November-March excluding major holidays (not chauffeured tours).
Prices are per tour (not per person) for up to five people. Meals, taxis and entrance fees are not included in the tour price.
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