Colosseum, Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Guided Tour

About this activity

  • time-forward_15911935 Duration

    2 days
  • queue-alt_15044408 Skip the ticket line

    1
  • guide_13794414 Live tour guide

    English Spanish
  • document-signed_15399607 Cancellation policy

    This activity is non-refundable
  • head-side-headphones_10435857 Optional audio guide

    English

Highlights

  • Learn about ancient Rome from a multimedia video to get you started
  • Discover the Colosseum with a guide and learn its fascinating history
  • See the breathtaking halls with masterpieces by artists like Raffael and Giotto
  • Experience standing in the Sistine Chapel under Michelangelo's Judgement Day
  • Enjoy skip-the-line ticktes to both sites for a hassle-free experience

Your experience

Archaeological Zone of the Colosseum, Vatican Museums, and Sistine Chapel.

Don’t miss the major sites in town and walk where emperors and Roman people walked.

Start out from the Touristation Aracoeli office at Piazza Ara Coeli 16; you meet your guide there and watch a 30-minute multimedia show on Ancient Rome by a top company that UNESCO, BBC, National Geographic all recognize.

Look at big monuments before how Rome changed into today from big monuments.

Thereupon, he takes an easy walk through moving ruins and large palaces with our smart guide.

Few places on earth have such haunting beauty as they do within those great spots between Roman Forum and Colosseum.

Hear your leader discuss the monument as it was meant to be at different ages from the Roman Forum and then finally as the hub of the old city where political religious economic legal functions and also a marketplace of the old city were situated.

Other places one can take time to see and learn about include Curia, Arch of Septimius Severus, Tabularium, Temple of Saturn and others.

Be taken along Via Sacra because this is where you will walk to that greatest monument in the world- Colosseum.

Hear him telling you about the history and other important details incised in huge Arch of Constantine.

So, he selected an ordinary monument suffused with an imperial tradition when, under his auspicious wish to proclaim himself as the judge of Rome’s destiny for the new emperor: Arch of Triumph.

The thing that comes with the Colosseum was novelty for its constructors, as it was by far the largest ever to be built not only in Rome but also in the whole Roman Empire.

You are going to hear the guide narrate incredible stories of how gladiators were made to fight special naval battles and wild animal hunts- some lasting 100 days! With this, you have a bit more of an insight into the kind of shows and fun that marked the Roman Empire.

Do or die in the same day take a 3-hour guided tour to race through highlights of Vatican Museums; Etruscan and Egyptian Museum as well as Renaissance Art Collections also Greco-Roman sections.

After passing between some smaller galleries, you can find frescoes, tapestries, old maps and lots of excellent statues.

Visit Sistine Chapel and the Borgia Apartments to see rooms full of Raphael’s paintings and Vatican Pinacoteca; Gallery of Maps; Pinecone Courtyard etc.

Finally, make your way to the Sistine Chapel where you can behold Michelangelo’s God- awful s n odBiccxap eixnles:yRocky’ ep.har g ge atesrmasrerworks as well as by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Pinturicchio, and Perugino.

What's Included
  • Assistance at the Touristation Aracoeli Office
  • Ancient Rome multimedia video at the Touristation office
  • Roman Forum entry ticket
  • Colosseum entry ticket
  • Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel skip-the-line ticket
  • Professional guided tour
  • Headsets
What's Excluded
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Transfer between attractions
  • Palatine Hill guided tour

To Remember

What to bring

  • Passport or ID card
  • Comfortable shoes
  • Passport or ID card for children
  • Passport or ID card, copy accepted

Know before you go

  • Please kindly report at TOURISTATION ARACOELI Office (Piazza d’Aracoeli 16). Touristation office is NOT next to the Colosseum but is on the Piazza Venezia side. Look for a fountain under restoration. There are orange flags outside the office.
  • You will be able to reserve the Vatican and Sistine Chapel guided tour at the Meeting point with the staff.
  • Latecomers will not be accommodated
  • It is mandatory to bring a valid identity document for all participants.
  • Please kindly note: Colosseum ticket price is € 18.00. The difference is for all other ancillary services.
  • Free admission to all disabled visitors with a certified disability. In case of not self-sufficient, the free ticket is also extended to a companion.
  • The Vatican Museums reserve the right to close any section, including the Sistine Chapel, due to unforeseen circumstances. The closure of any museum section does not entitle visitors to any refund.