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Colosseum Express Skip the Line Guided Tour
If short on time in Rome, this should be the best way of doing it, join our group tour for the colosseum, the icon and symbol of Rome , the largest amphitheater built during the Roman Empire. In one of our best walking tours our official tour guides will reveal you who founded Rome, the meaning and the importance of an amphitheater in the empire, about the origin and the evolution of the venationes and the munera gladiatoria where thousands of wild animals were captured and trained gladiators were offering public entertainments. At the end of the tour, your guide will accompany you to the entrance of the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill and there you can explore the area on your own.
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– Your documents will be checked before the start of the tour
– Persons under the age of 18 may only purchase/participate in the tour when accompanied by a parent or an accompanying adult.
Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
One of the largest and the most important museums in the world with an unique collection of art including paintings, sculptures, maps, tapestries, private rooms of papal apartments and its overall jewel, the Sistine Chapel where popes have been elected for the last centuries and above all the place that contains one of the greatest masterpieces signed Michelangelo Buonarroti. If you are to spend 2 minutes in front of each single piece of art you would probably spend 10 years of your life so be aware of the huge treasure and the kilometers of galleries. During the walking tour you will Enjoy highlights like the Pinecone Courtyard, the amazing Pio Clementino Museum, gaze at Apollo Belvedere and discover the group of Laocoon - source of inspiration for the latter frescoes of Michelangelo, cross the rooms of marble animals to get to the rooms of muses. The Round Room and Greek Cross Room will lead you to the longest corridors adorned with amazing sculptures of antiquity. The long gallery divided into three parts, Candelabras, Tapestries and Maps connects the whole museums to the Sistine Chapel.
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– Your documents will be checked before the start of the tour
– Persons under the age of 18 may only purchase/participate in the tour when accompanied by a parent or an accompanying adult.
– Appropriate and comfortable dress code is required, knees and shoulders should be covered
– Please be aware that we can not skip the security check lineThis tour includes pathways that are not accessible for wheelchairs
Saint Peter’ Basilica and Square Guided Tour
Saint Peter's is the largest basilica in the world and the very heart of Christendom, built above the tomb of the first pope considered to be Peter, but at the same time a rich concentration of art masterpieces! Among our most beautiful walking tours! As you get there you will be fascinated by its architectural secrets and embraced by the two arms of columns designed by the master of the baroque Gianlorenzo Bernini. As soon as you get inside this large building where 60000 people would fit it's really hard to choose where to stop and what to analyse first. For sure your eyes would gaze first on the central Baldachino created by the same Bernini, big as a ten story building. Above it you'll admire Michelangelo's CUPOLONE inspired from the dome that tops Rome's Pantheon. Don’t miss the most important artwork of the basilica: The Pietà of Michelangelo, only 22 years old when he decided to sign it! You will discover that the church houses few tombes of women (only 3 and very special ones) and various tombs of popes among which John Paul II, John XXIII, Pius X ,monuments signed by the great neoclassical artist Canova! Don't miss the Chapel for weddings decorated with diamonds,the Baptistry Chapel with its unique baptismal basin in red marbel richer than the gold.
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Ghetto Walking Tour
Set between Capitoline Hill and the Tiber River, the Jewish ghetto in Rome was created in 1555. Walk from the Capitoline Square designed by Michelangelo to the Marcellus Theatre and you will find yourself admiring the most remarkable and impressive sites like the Octavia Porch, the church of Sant’Angelo in Pescheria ( the traditional fish market), Mattei’s Square with its famous tortoise fountain and the exterior of the “ modern” Synagogue. Crossing the Tiber river and walking throughout the Tiberine island, the walking tour will end just in front of what is considered to be the most ancient synagogue built in Trastevere between the 11th and the 12th century.
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MEETING POINT
Meet your tour guide in Piazza del Campidoglio where he/she will have an orange label with our logo SONITUS IN ROME written on it
PLEASE NOTE
⁃ Confirmation will be received at the time of booking
⁃ Please make sure that you will get there 15min before the starting time
– Your documents will be checked before the start of the tour
– Persons under the age of 18 may only purchase/participate in the tour when accompanied by a parent or an accompanying adult.
⁃ We recommend you to keep your empty bottle of water since you can refill it everywhere in Rome for free
⁃ The Walking tour is wheelchair-accessible
⁃ Due to severe weather conditions this tour could be canceled and if so you can choose an alternative date or a full refund
Rome at Dusk walking Tour
A pleasant walking tour among the Roman squares and fountains. You will admire the fascinating Campo de’ Fiori, Piazza Navona the symbol of the baroque with the Bernini’s masterpiece, the so-called the Fountain of Four Rivers. Enjoy your experience discovering the Pantheon, the Roman temple initially dedicated to all gods and then transformed into a church. The guide will end the tour at Trevi Fountain and when there be ready to toss three coins and make a wish!
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– Your documents will be checked before the start of the tour
– Persons under the age of 18 may only purchase/participate in the tour when accompanied by a parent or an accompanying adult.
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