Colosseum Tour

🏛️ Explore Ancient Rome: Colosseum and Forum Tour 🏛️

Step into the grandeur of Ancient Rome with our immersive Colosseum and Forum tour! Embark on a journey through time as you walk in the footsteps of gladiators and emperors, unraveling the captivating history of one of the world’s most iconic landmarks.

🔍 What to Expect:
👑 Colosseum: Marvel at the architectural brilliance of this ancient amphitheater, where fierce battles and spectacles once enthralled crowds of thousands. Learn about its construction, the games held within its walls, and the stories of the gladiators who fought for glory and honor.

🏛️ Roman Forum: Wander through the heart of ancient Rome, where politics, religion, and commerce intersected. Discover the ruins of temples, basilicas, and government buildings that once stood as symbols of Roman power and prestige. Let our expert guides bring the ruins to life with fascinating tales of triumph and tragedy.

🗓️ Private tour
📍 Location: Rome, Italy
🕒 Duration: 2 hours
🎟️ Tickets: Included in the tour package
🌐 contact me directly for more information and booking inquiries info@roman-gateway.com

Rome Cruise Tour

Are you coming to Rome on a Cruise?... and you have only one day to visit the city?
This tour is what you're looking for!

I will take you on a fun and interesting tour of the highlights of Ancient, Renaissance Rome and Vatican.

Your shore excursion to Rome will start with pick up dockside at your cruise ship in Civitavecchia (1 hour and half from Rome), where a professional driver and a comfortable limo or minivan will be waiting for you and will lead you to Rome.

At the conclusion of your Rome guided day tour, the driver will take you back to your cruise ship, dockside, in Civitavecchia.

We will visit Vatican museums (Sistine Chapel), St. Peter's Basilica, Fountain, Colosseum, Forum.

Suggestions: dress code at the Vatican - no bare shoulders, skirts and shorts under the knees

Appian Way and Catacombs

The most important of the Roman roads, it was built in 312 b.c. by Appius Claudius.

Running from Rome to southern Italy, the road is still paved with big blocks of basalt (grey volcanic stone) and in use today. It has also been used for the first few miles as pagan and christian burial grounds. The early Christians, for example, built along it their underground cemeteries (catacombs).

The tour starts near the San Sebastiano gate, one of the 18gates of the Roman city walls and still well preserved. Then, we visit the Saint Callistus Catacombs, which were an object of pilgrimage from the Middle Ages to modern times. Here the bones of Saint Peter and Saint Paul were kept during 3rd century persecution. The catacombs are a complicated network of galleries flanked by hundreds of tombs.

Returning to Via Appia, a little farther along the road, we find the Circus of Emperor Maxentius and the temple of Romulus (his son), both built in the 4th century a.c. Beyond them is one of the famous landmarks of the Roman Countryside, the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella. It is a magnificent tomb of a patrician lady who died in the first century a.c. Then, we continue on foot (only pedestrians or bikes allowed). For the next mile the road is lined with cypresses and flanked by the ruins of ancient Roman tombs.

The landscape is wonderful… Don’t come to Rome and miss the views that you will find here along this road… Come and discover it.