Guided tour of the Colosseum, Vatican Museums. Skip-the-line tickets with assistance at the entrance. Online ticket purchase - Colosseo - Roma
Guided tour of the Colosseum, Vatican Museums. Skip-the-line tickets with assistance at the entrance. Online ticket purchase: € 98 per person.
This ticket allows you to enter the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums.
You will be able to skip the long lines at the ticket office: a Musement representative will take you directly inside the Colosseum. You won't have to wait in line and you can spend more time at the site, immersing yourself in the unique atmosphere and compelling history of thisunique monument in the world.
Follow your guide and discover the stories and anecdotes hidden among these ruins. Your guide will retrace the history of the empire, from its birth in 753 BC, telling you about the clashes between gladiators that took place in the Colosseum and the exciting events linked to the reigns of Caesar and Nero.
Then you take a tour of the Vatican Museums along a carefully designed route to admire the centuries-old art collections and the archaeological wonders of the various sections of the museum.
You can also visit the Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Candelabra. Crossing the Gallery of Geographical Maps before reaching the Raphael Rooms, where you can admire the famous School of Athens.
It ends with a visit to the Sistine Chapel to admire the sixteenth-century masterpieces including the Chapel and the Last Judgment strong> by Michelangelo.
Finally, you will avoid the long queues to enter St. Peter's Basilica and admire the historical-architectural jewels inside. At the end of the tour you can remain in St. Peter's Basilica or exit into St. Peter's Square to admire the famous Bernini's Colonnade, the façade of the basilica and the Egyptian obelisk.
Times: Monday to Saturday (excluding holidays).
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Rate Guided tour of the Colosseum, Vatican Museums Skip-the-line tickets with assistance at the entrance
Price per person: € 98.
What does the Colosseum, Vatican Museums guided tour include Skip-the-line tickets with entrance assistance
– Priority entrance (skip the line access) to the Colosseum and Vatican Museums.
– Guided tour.
– Wireless audio headphones.
Duration of Colosseum guided tour, Vatican Museums Skip-the-line tickets with entrance assistance
– up to 8 hours during the opening hours of the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums.
Languages Guided tour of the Colosseum, Vatican Museums Skip-the-line tickets with entrance assistance
– Italian, French, Spanish, English, German.
Meeting point Guided tour of the Colosseum, Vatican Museums Skip-the-line tickets with entrance assistance
– Piazza del Risorgimento, 52 - Rome.
At Bar L'Ottagono, in the center of the square. Look for a staff member with the pink "I Love Rome" logo.
Times and days of the Colosseum guided tour, Vatican Museums Skip-the-line tickets with entrance assistance
Meeting time: 15 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 Colosseum, Vatican Museums Skip-the-line tickets with entrance assistance
Reservation can be made be cancelled free of charge up to 24 hours before the visit.
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The history of the Colosseum
The Colosseum is a monument of ancient Rome located on the slopes
of the Colle Oppio in front of the entrance to the Forum area.
Not many people know the origins of the nickname of the Flavian Amphitheatre wanted by the Emperor Vespasian after his election. Here
in fact already before the Colosseum there stood a colossal bronze statue depicting the Emperor Nero whose palace, the Domus Aurea, extended
for many hectares all around.
The construction, begun by Vespasian in 70 AD, was concluded by Titus, who inaugurated it on 21 April 80 AD Titus, the emperor
"good" for Dante, he was the son of Vespasian, the same one he suppressed
the revolution of the Jews in Palestine killing more of six hundred
people and setting fire to the famous Temple of Solomon.
The construction, as attested by an inscription, was carried out with the spoils of the sacking of the temple of Jerusalem (70 AD).
«I[MP(ERATOR)] CAES(AR) VESPASI[ANUS AUG(USTUS)] AMPHITEATRU[M NOVUM] [EX] MANUBI(I)S [FIERI IUSSIT]»
«Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus had the new amphitheater built with the proceeds of the loot.»
Until that moment
the equestrian competitions took place at the Circus Maximus and were simple competitions on
an elliptical circuit. The emotion of the crowd must certainly have been enormous
upon discovering that the arena was collapsing and becoming a ready-made artificial lake to host naval battles or to emerge to host fights between bulls (a
Etruscan tradition) and other wild animals.
During the inauguration more than one person died. of ten thousand prisoners and five thousand animals brought
from Africa for the occasion. A true massacre in the eyes of modern people
but strongly desired by the population, politicians, nobles and philosophers
of imperial Rome. In short, almost no one opposed the massacres every time
an emperor or a nobleman used this scenario to celebrate
a triumph or even just his house.
But in ancient Rome there were exceptions in this regard: for Cicero the killing of animals did not cause pleasure and for Marcus Terenzio Varro it even repelled him the thing. But these intellectuals lived in the1st century. BCbefore the games became a daily practice and an instrument of power for emperors and consuls , as summarized very well by the poet Juvenal in the following century.
«[...] [populus] two days of res anxius optat panem et circenses»
«[...] [the people] anxiously desire only two things, bread and circus games»
The inauguration lasted 100 days but shortly after Trajan was able to do better by organizing 123 days of fighting to celebrate the victory over the Dacians.
Nerva and Trajan intervened on the building as attested by some inscriptions but the first major restoration intervention was carried out by Antonino Pio.
In 217 a lightning caused a fire which caused the upper structures to collapse and the Colosseum remained closed from 217 to 222. The restoration work was begun under Elagabalus (218-222) and completed by Alexander Severus who rebuilt the colonnade on the summa cavea. The building was inaugurated in 222 but the works were completed only under Gordian III. Another bolt of lightning brought Emperor Decius ordered restoration work in 250.
In addition to the fights between gladiators, the Colosseum was able to host hunting shows, naval battles, re-enactments of famous battles and dramas based on classical mythology.
The fact that the Colosseum was also the site of the martyrdom of the first Christians was much debated by historians and often considered false news. But in recent years new studies have confirmed that thousands of Christians died here during the persecutions of the 3rd century AD. The sentences were carried out by crucifixion or with the damnatio ad bestias which was often reserved even for low-ranking criminals or to the slaves who had revolted against their masters. Among the beasts used there were lions, tigers, bears and wolves.
In 248 AD the thousandth anniversary of the birth of
Rome. Only conversion to the Christian religion - in those centuries not
still harmful to heredity cultural culture of Rome - was able to stop
the fights between gladiators in 404 AD and more; late among animals
(523).
Some earthquakes led to a restoration being carried out in 470 by the Consul Messius Phoebus Severus; in 484 the praefectus urbi Decius Marius Venantius Basilius oversaw the restoration at his own expense, venationes (animal killings) were finally prohibited by Emperor Theodoric (523), leading to the total abandonment of the Colosseum.
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