Colosseum and Ancient Rome Tour city breaks - ROME

Description

This completely new Tour brings to you a 'Skip the Line', comprehensive tour of the most significant sites of Ancient Rome.

Your Colosseum Tour will be led by an official tour guides who, apart from having extensive backgrounds in art, history and/or archeology, will also be specialists on the Colosseum, Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. Your tour will begin at the top of Colle Oppio with a panoramic view of the Colosseum, modern Rome's most recognizable landmark and one of Ancient Rome's most vital social centre's. there you will have Skip the Line access to the Colosseum. Once inside, your expert guide will talk you through the bloody past of the amphitheatre as you listen to tales of gladiators, mock sea-battles and executions.

After a brief rest at the Arch of Constantine, you will arrive at the Palatine Hill- the most famous of the 7 hills of Rome. From here you will admire the views of the Roman Forum and Nero's Circus Maximus where chariot races were once held. Romulus and Remus were said to have been found on the Palatine by the ‘shewolf’ who nursed and raised them. Legend holds that Romulus went on to found Rome.

The last stop of the tour is a walk along the Via Sacra or Sacred Way which is the main path through the Roman Forum that once sparkled with festivals and triumphal processions. Your tour ends at the Temple which houses the altar where Julius Caesar was cremated. Visitors from around the world still leave flowers and candles at this site today.

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