 Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with assistance at the entrance. Online ticket purchase - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Roma
Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with assistance at the entrance. Online ticket purchase: € 395 per person.
This ticket allows you to enter one of the major museums on the planet without queuing at the entrance. A representative will be waiting for you. out
In the marvelous setting of the Capitol hill, probably
the most ancient sacred area of Rome, two buildings host
the Capitoline Museums, the most ancient public museum of the world (1471) founded at the behest of Pope Sixtus IV. The Scala della Cordonata and the square were designed by Michelangelo and strongly
promoted by Pope Paul III in conjunction with the emperor's visit
Charles V in Rome in 1536.
Rate Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with assistance at the entrance
Price per person: € 395.
What does the Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with entrance assistance include
– Skip-the-line ticket for the Capitoline Museums.
– Professional official guide.
– 3-hour guided tour.
Duration of Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with entrance assistance
– 3 hours during the opening hours of the Capitoline Museums.
Languages Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with entrance assistance
– English.
Meeting point Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with entrance assistance
– Capitol Square - Rome
Meet your guide at the top of the steps leading to Piazza del Campidoglio, under the statue on the left. Look for a Through Eternity sign or flag. Please arrive 10 minutes early.
Times and days of the Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with assistance at the entrance
Meeting time: 10 minutes before.
By presenting the voucher upon arrival – smartphone vouchers accepted – at the representative you can start the tour.
Cancellation terms Guided tour of the Capitoline Museums of Rome with entrance assistance
Receive a 50% refund by canceling your reservation up to 18 days before the start of the activity. If you cancel your reservation up to 15 days in advance, you will still be able to receive a 90% refund.
The history of the Capitoline Museums
The sacred area was in very poor condition. Michelangelo suggested
to build a third palace, Palazzo Nuovo, to enclose
the space in front in a new square. The project was finished
only after Michelangelo's death following the original drawings
of the great artist.
The exhibition history of the Capitol Hill began
with the donation of some statues to the Roman people by Pope Sixtus IV
from the classical and imperial era: the Lupa, the Spinario, the Camillo
and the colossal head of Constantine. A donation he meant
have a symbolic value regarding works linked to glories
ancient people of Rome and going to place themselves on the ancient religious center
and administrative of the city represented by the hill
of the Capitol. It was created like this the first public museum
of the world and moreover in the open air as the works
they were placed in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
Following the cultural climate of Humanism that brought
a renewed interest in classical works were initiated
the first excavation campaigns and the first important ones were carried out
discoveries of works of art which expanded the collection
existing on the Capitoline Hill: a gilded bronze Hercules from the Forum
Boario, the marble fragments of the acrolith of Constantine from
Basilica of Maxentius, the three relief panels with businesses
of Marcus Aurelius, the Capitoline Brutus, important inscriptions
such as the Capitoline Fasti, the colossal statues of the Tiber and the
Nile. In 1538 Pope Paul III also decided on the transfer
of the famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius which was placed
in the center of the square designed by Michelangelo.
 Resti della statua colossale di CostantinoThe physiognomy of the collection was modified in the second half;
of the 16th century, with the entry into the Capitoline collections of an imposing
group of sculptures, following the decision of Pope Pius V to
free the Vatican from "pagan" images: the collections were
augmented with significant artistic evidence and setting
historical hitherto prevalent was joined by the most exquisitely
aesthetics of new acquisitions.
With the construction of the Palazzo Nuovo on the other side of the square
it was possible from 1654 to arrange more the large one is adequate
quantity of works that had accumulated in the Palazzo dei Conservatori,
placing part of it in the newly constructed building. The museum
Capitoline Hill was, however, opened to the public only in the following century,
following the acquisition of the collection of statues and portraits
of Cardinal Albani by Pope Clement XII, who inaugurated it
in 1734. Benedict XIV (who also placed the fragments of the
Forma Urbis severiana, the large marble plant of ancient Rome)
bottom a few decades more late, in the middle of the 18th century, the
Capitoline Art Gallery, where two important collections converged
private, Sacchetti and Pio.
A notable increase in collections eventually took place
of the nineteenth century, after the designation of Rome as the capital of Italy
unified in 1870, during the earthworks for construction
of new neighborhoods. For the very large quantity of materials coming from
new exhibition sections were set up from the excavations in
Palazzo dei Conservatori and was built at the same time
on the Celio the Municipal Archaeological Warehouse, later called
Antiquarium. Some sculptures found a place in a pavilion
with an octagonal plan, the "Sala Ottagona", specially built
in the internal garden on the first floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
Also during this period, large due donations took place
to the munificence of private collectors, among which they range
remember the Castellani Collection of ancient vases and the Collection
Porcelain china. The Capitoline Medagliere was established in
same years, with the acquisition of important private collections
and with numismatic finds from urban excavations.
A new layout of the collections was created by Rodolfo
Lanciani at the beginning of the 1900s, followed by a more radical reorganization
in 1925, when it was placed in the newly acquired Palazzo Cappellolli
the Mussolini Museum (later the New Museum) was established where they were transferred
the sculpture works preserved in the Antiquarium al Celio, which
from then on it was mainly intended for the so-called "minor arts".
In 1952 it was created in a wing of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
new exhibition sector, called Braccio Nuovo. In 1957,
on the occasion of the III International Congress of Greek Epigraphy
and Latina, the new Lapidary Gallery of the Museums was inaugurated
Capitolines in the Conjunction Gallery, built over the years
1939-41 for the connection of the Capitoline buildings; there were
arranged around 1400 ancient Latin and Greek inscriptions from
partly from the rooms of the Antiquarium Comunale sul Celio, partly
from the Capitoline Museums themselves. Serious infiltration problems
of water and humidity they then forced over time to
close the Lapidary Gallery to the public; also the rooms of the
Museo Nuovo and the New Wing of the Palazzo dei Conservatori are
were subsequently excluded from the museum itinerary.
In 1997,
to free the rooms affected by the renovation works,
the sculptures exhibited in the Museum of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, in
Museo Nuovo and in Braccio Nuovo were largely temporary
transferred to the evocative exhibition space created in the former power plant
Acea electricity plant on Via Ostiense, the Centrale Montemartini.
 Galata morenteThe
The first rooms of the Museum are dedicated to sculpture and exhibits
some Roman bronzes of great interest such as the Spinario,
depicting a boy in the act of removing a thorn from his foot,
or the famous Capitoline Wolf who feeds the young Romulus
and Remus, a symbol of all of Rome.
The upper floor, dedicated to painting, houses works by Caravaggio,
Veronese, Guercino, Rubens, Titian and many other great artists.
An underground passage dotted with statues and bas-reliefs of
Imperial Roman era will take you at Palazzo Nuovo, mainly
dedicated to sculpture. The suggestion is to take a
pause moment during the underpass and turn right to reach
the most fascinating of the terraces of Rome. From here it's
It is possible to enjoy an incredible panorama over the entire area
Imperial Forums. Palazzo Nuovo also preserves the equestrian statue
original of Emperor Marcus Aurelius once positioned at the
center of the square, now replaced by a beautiful copy. |
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