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Colosseum Tour: Ancient Rome's Glory
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Roma
Experience the ancient glory of Rome on a skip-the-line tour of the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum. Explore the impressive ruins with an expert historian guide and learn fascinating anecdotes and history of Ancient Rome’s heyday.
Experience the ancient glory of Rome on a skip-the-line tour of the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum. Explore the impressive ruins with an expert historian guide and learn fascinating anecdotes and history of Ancient Rome’s heyday.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
72 hours
Highlights
- Colosseum - Your journey into antiquity begins with the Colosseum, one of the world’s most iconic sights. Your guide will call on their historical and archaeological expertise to tell you all about the battles, both physical and political, that played out in this incredible amphitheater. You might be surprised to learn that ‘Gladiator’ didn’t get…
- Colosseum - Your journey into antiquity begins with the Colosseum, one of the world’s most iconic sights. Your guide will call on their historical and archaeological expertise to tell you all about the battles, both physical and political, that played out in this incredible amphitheater. You might be surprised to learn that ‘Gladiator’ didn’t get everything right and that feats of ancient engineering even allowed the Romans to re-enact naval battles here.
What's Included
- Access to the Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill
- Professional Expert Licensed Guide
- Fully guided visit of the Colosseum
- Colosseum entrance ticket (valued at €18 per person, or €24 per person if arena access is included)
- Colosseum reservation fee (valued at €2 per person)
- Access to the Colosseum Arena Floor (if option selected)
- Audio…
- Access to the Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill
- Professional Expert Licensed Guide
- Fully guided visit of the Colosseum
- Colosseum entrance ticket (valued at €18 per person, or €24 per person if arena access is included)
- Colosseum reservation fee (valued at €2 per person)
- Access to the Colosseum Arena Floor (if option selected)
- Audio Guide on your mobile phone (if option selected)
- Headsets to hear your guide clearly
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information
Experience the revived magnificence of ancient Rome! Bypass the queue at three of the most important enduring edifices of the Eternal City: the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum. Throughout the 3-hour tour, your proficient English-speaking historian guide will weave stories and impart historical knowledge, reconstructing the awe-inspiring ruins…
Experience the revived magnificence of ancient Rome! Bypass the queue at three of the most important enduring edifices of the Eternal City: the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum. Throughout the 3-hour tour, your proficient English-speaking historian guide will weave stories and impart historical knowledge, reconstructing the awe-inspiring ruins through narratives of Ancient Rome’s prime era.
- Please note: All participant names are required at the time of booking in order to enter the Colosseum.
- Every customer on this tour is required to present a valid government issued ID or Passport at the Colosseum, that matches their name on the reservation, or entry will be refused. Name changes are not permitted once the booking is confirmed
- Please note that the itinerary for our tours may differ from the advertised order of destinations. We assure you that any changes made to the tour itinerary are carefully planned and intended to enhance your overall experience
- On this tour, some of the venues or parts of the venue may be subject to last-minute, unpredictable closures. When this occurs, we are happy to offer customers an extended tour in keeping with the advertised total length of the tour
- May experience delays in clearing security checks when entering the venue
Location
Largo Gaetana Agnesi
Meet your guide at Largo Gaetana Agnesi, on the little square above the metro line B (blue line) stop "Colosseo". Your guide coordinator will be waiting here wearing a blue City Wonders polo shirt or jacket for easy recognition.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at least 3 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
If you cancel at least 3 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
Customer Ratings
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Travel19172896323
Nov 15, 2025
WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE WITH A SPECTACULAR GUIDE - I don’t usually think much about these experiences because everyone has their days, but I understand that this time we have to leave a 5 STAR 🌟 and if there were more I would have to put them. Yesterday we lived an EXTRAORDINARY and
WONDERFUL for the site itself, ROMAN FORUM OF
FLAVIO OR “COLISEUM”... and by LUCK
WHAT WE HAD WITH FABIO (who
NO FLAVIO😅😅) OUR
WONDERFUL GUIDE OF CIVITATIS, with its BLUE AND RED flag (colors nothing footballer🤭 rather symbol of its people...
If you can choose
To CIVITATIS and if you let them choose ask FABIO. His closeness, his good humor, his wisdom, his abundance of data and his explanations..!! ALL TO FRAME..
FABIO -NO FLAVIO- LO BOR DA DO!! What we say for Andalusia.. we wait for you in ITALICA 👌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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397leslik
Oct 12, 2025
Highly recommend. - Sam did a great job! He’s very friendly and knowledgeable and very easy to understand. He was an archaeologist in Egypt so he could also connect the dots between the two Empires. We loved this tour. Someone in our group did not read the description and had knee issues, too many steps and long walking do not do if you can’t walk up and down steps easily. HIGHLY RECOMMEND SAM and this tour!!!
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Dannyhigham1971
Oct 10, 2025
Rome is an adventure into historic beauty. - Rome.... wow, the Colosseum by far was my favourite place, rises out of the city like a phoenix, even when inside you can imagine the historic battles. Trevi fountain is beautiful but ridiculously crowded, early hours of the morning best time. The Vatican, spanish steps... I could go on.. be vigilant and Rome will embrace your mind, body and soul... we will be going back..
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Europeaninboston
Oct 20, 2025
Ok for the entry ticket, guide tour quite average - Great to see it, the guide average, running through and very little info. Great to have a ticket but otherwise nothing special
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Anthony
Oct 15, 2025
Bad smell in rome - Huge crowds
Also be prepared for 3hr que to enter the coliseum
Everything so expensive
You also pay for the forum
Which the roads overlooks and you can see the same as the paying tourists
Bad smell of urine everywhere
Wouldnt recommend for people with a casual interest in history
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824vianneys
Oct 25, 2025
Saturated tourism during autumn holidays. I was shocked by the tourist turnout in general. - Saturated tourist attendance during the autumn holidays. It shocked me if not so many people on these beautiful sites, the streets, the Navona and di Spagna squares crowded.
The Trevis Fountain is inaccessible (a whole fence set up to access like cattle in front of the fountain and take a photo).
I leave this opinion so that travelers avoid going to this beautiful capital on autumn vacation thinking that there is less crowd of tourists.
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Doctordroidx
Oct 29, 2025
Terrible organization - we signed up for a tour through Viator and something called Vivicos we had just arrived in Rome and we’re tired from the overnight trip. Therefore, we booked a tour of the Colosseum for 3:45 PM and received a confirmation.
However, for reasons that were never really explained, without our consent, the tour was moved up to 3 PM.
We tried very hard to arrive at the Colosseum in time for the tour, even taking a taxi instead of the train at great expense to us.
We arrived at the greeting place at 3:22 PM and we’re told that the tour had already left and that there was no way that we could join it in progress.
In fact, the people who greeted us could not have been less sympathetic or nice.
We never received any explanation as to why the tour had changed.All in all a terrible experience.
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Discover394838
Oct 22, 2025
Collosium wants NO visitors - Absolutely terrible, they printed on my adult children tickets that they were children and so wouldn't let them in. They also printed my email as my first name which didn't match our documents which caused me problems since you now have to show drivers license etc to get in. Give them a hard pass!
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Frank
Oct 22, 2025
Didn’t get the tour. Very disappointed - We had a voucher and had no idea that it wasn’t our ticket. We did not know that we had to redeem it for our tickets. We went to the colosseum early. We searched everywhere for our tour group, asked lots of people and to no avail. In the end I messaged the seller of the tour and said we were super ANGRY. We went and spent another 36 euros ($72 NZD) and got tickets. No tour guide. We are not happy that we were not emailed important details. Such as the meeting spot and that we didn’t actually have our tickets. The seller actually called us eventually and said the group had waited at the train station. We had been at that station and not seen any group. I told her that it was now too late. The group must be there somewhere but where? We wouldn’t know. We were already inside after buying new tickets. Very disappointed in the whole situation.
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Thegman51
Oct 10, 2025
Disappointed at the Coliseum - We as a family of four were 5 minutes late and missed the tour altogether. Tour guide called and we were almost immediately disconnected. Was unable to reach her back. Contacted Trip Advisor and tour operator, we attempted to go with another group. Instead we were offered a tour for the following week which was after we’d be leaving Europe.
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