Rome in a Day Private Tour with Sistine Chapel and Colosseum. history at finger tips

It’s a winning challenge discover Rome in one day with our tour perfected to see the utmost in shortest time possible, thanks also to skip-the-line tickets to the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum pre-purchased by us. In addition, the investigative approach to discovery, the captivating presentations of our guide, exciting details designed to enhance the progressive discovery of the sites, will make a difference.

Walk with our professional guide through the first two levels of the Colosseum to relive the highlights of a day around the arena, the most exciting spectacle of the Ancient Rome and the whole Empire - although almost all the cities of the Empire had a building similar to the Colosseum for the gladiator games, Rome's shows were the most subsidized and coveted. 

They started with the hunting of fairs throughout the morning, followed, under the sun at noon peak, by the executions dramatised with the executed put to death staging the most atrocious moments of some Greek myths - for example the death of Icarus, while flies until, too close to the sun, its wings fall apart with the wax used as glue melting. In the afternoon the tension in the arena grew with the gladiator combats, in pairs or in groups, with a complexity of weapons, combat styles, scenography and technical skill of the gladiators, leding the crowd to roar like in our stadiums.

You will then discover who the gladiators were, where they came from, their social status (free men or slaves?), the incredible popularity of the combats, the enormous expenses supported by the emperors - transfering from the distant provinces to Rome and keep thousands of wild animals a well as the training and allocation in Rome of the gladiators - to win the favor of the people, taking their attention away from the problems of Imperial Rome in the collective delirium of blood and screams around the arena. 

Tour the Roman Forum, one of the best archaeological areas in the world, walking to many temples in excellent condition. You will be in front of the temple of Antoninus and Faustina with the mystery of a church embedded in its structure. Reach the Senate where the speeches of Cicero, Caesar, Octavian echo. Enter the garden attached to the house and the Temple of the Vestal Virgins and find the life flow channeled in the past in the Via Sacra, today busy by tourists but beaten in Ancient Rome by so many Romans - in transit to religious, political and legal buildings located in the Forum - to require a law regulating the circulation of chariots and pedestrians.

Then enjoy a lunch of traditional Italian cuisine in a good restaurant - our guide will have suggestions for you.

Be spellbound by the innovations of the Renaissance (about 500 years ago), first of all from the revolutions of the printing and the modern science - in whose wake we still live today -, giving meaning to the artworks of the Gallery of Maps, the Tapestry Gallery (finely woven at the time in the Netherlands), only some of the historical collections of the Vatican Museums. you will analise and love on our Vatican tour.

Obviously our guide will propose a well-studied selection of artworks for the most significant collections, historically contextualized in a stimulating progression, recreating the past by accumulation of clues, details and personal stories of popes, princes and artists.

Appreciate Apollo Belvedere and the Laocoon, classical masterpieces unearthed in the Renaissance and loved by Michelangelo and pope Jiulius II, who immediately bought it for his already extensive art collection.

Then fully understanding the exuberant frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel set againt the dramatic style of the Last Judgement, painted by Michelangelo only 20 years later.