Exclusive Private Tour: Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine

Appreciate the remarkably well-preserved Arch of Constantine before moving on to the extraordinary engineering achievement that is the Colosseum, a building able to seat 50,000 spectators and whose occupants would swiftly find their places under a wide roof.

Started by Emperor Vespasian, this gigantic edifice was intended to furnish entertainment to all Romans regardless of riches and and was filled with all kinds of spectacles—brutal contests between gladiators and gladiatrices (female gladiators) being only one.

Horrific hunts, called "inventories" (battles with wild beasts), took place in the arena of this building as well.

The experience lasts for 1 hour and 30 minutes and includes an entrance ticket.

The Roman Forum was the commercial, legal, and administrative center of Ancient Rome; wandering through this historic site will make you feel as if you have truly been transported back to Rome at the height of its Imperial power.

This walk takes you by old ruins—temples and tombs like the Roman Senate and the place where they burned Julius Caesar.

As you walk down the “Sacred Way” in the Roman Forum, your guide shows you the spot where Julius Caesar started building more Imperial Forums in 46 B.C., a key part of ancient Rome that later Emperors added to with their own temples and homes right up until A.D.

608. 1 hour • Admission Ticket Included Palatine Hill The wide view from Palatine—a hill where Emperors lived—will be introduced by the great Basilica of Maxentius and the fine Arch of Titus.

This place shows that oldest part of Rome; it is where Romulus set up “Square Rome,” which was meant to grow into the biggest Empire ever.

Romulus's wall and 4,000-year-old huts were remnants among which Augustus, Tiberius, Maxentius, and many more opted to build their palaces.

The high ground it stands upon still gives fine vistas of the Eternal City; the view of the Circus Maximus from Palatine Hill would be enough to justify the visit all by itself.