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Everyone knows that there was a time in which Rome was one of the most fascinating and decorated city in the known world. They were living more than 1.200.000 inhabitants. The Ancient City of Rome had hundreds of Temples and Basilicas, over a thousands of Thermal Baths, Condominiums, several Circuses, Stadiums, Theatres, Markets, several Forums. One of the motto was Roma Caput Mundi (Head of the World).

Nowadays we have more that one city within the same city of Rome. Several levels of different ages: the Royal Period, the Republican Age, the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, Renaissance Rome etc.

Questions that we always received were: how long lasts the Ancient Rome Tour? Or, how many types of "Ancient Rome Tours" are available ? Well, we suggest at least an half day ...

In any Imperial Rome Tour may be easily added with a Rome museum. For your Rome Vacation, we highly recommend at least two Museums: the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) and Roman National Museum of Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (bronze and marble statues, frescos, Ancient Rome Mosaics, Roman coins and Roman jewels). See our section dedicated to the Museums of Rome.

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The Archaeological Rome Tours are a total journey into a spaceless and timeless that still speak about art and philisophy, engineering and great buildings techniques, loves and murders, conjures and triumphs: in other words, Rome, the Eternal City: a very present past.

Pick up some suggestions of what of the Ancient Rome Tour you wish to select. We love cutomizing our Rome Tours always on private base (us, as your private Rome Tour Guide and your family/group of people). Or, leave it up to us. Here below there is an intersting list of most of the highlights of the Ancient Rome Tour for your Rome trip.

Ancient Rome Tour 1.

Basic
IMPERIAL ROME TOUR
Classic Rome
Walking tour
Duration: 4 hours

Pantheon Rome
Sacred Area of Argentina
Capitol Hill
Roman Forum
Colosseum Rome
Palatine Hill (Caesars' Palaces)

We will start (or end up) with the only intact Temple left of the Roman Empire where the Ancient Romans could worship all Gods (Pantheon).

Then on the the Area where there are the vestige of the 4 Republican Temples (3rd and 2nd Cent. B.C.) next to the site where Caius Julis Caesar was assassinated.

A sort walk will draw us to the Capitole Hill, geographical center of Rome, where "All Roads are leading to", the splendid XVIth Cent. "Piazza" designed by Michelangelo, overlooking the Roman Forum. The Campidoglio is the location of the Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums).

At the Roman Forum, a nice stroll thorughout the quintessence of the Western Roman civilization, where 31 Centuries of history are resume in only one area, the best of Rome.

A short walk up to the Caesar's Palaces on the Palatine Hill to be wondered by the Residence of most of the Caesars, the gorgeous view of the Circus Maximus and then down to the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Rome Colisseum.

• 1-6 people: 350,00 EUR
• 7-14 people: 450,00 EUR
• 15-20 people *: 40,00 EUR per person
• 21-40 people *: 35,00 EUR per person

* On the above costs, due to the booking policy of Sopraintendenza dei Beni Culturali di Roma, the reservation is mandatory (we take care of). The cost is EUR 50,00. This will avoid the queues at the Coliseum.

NOTES :

1) The entrance fees are not included in the above cost. Our Guides, being official Rome Tour guides, they never pay them. With only one ticket of EUR 12,00 per person, people are allowed to enter: Forum / Coliseum / Palatine Hill (Caesars' Palaces) within 48 hours.

2) Rental of the Head-sets is mandatory at the Colisseum for tours with more than 14 visitors and its cost is EUR 3,50 per person (for the half day).

3) 20 % VAT to be added.

ANCIENT ROME TOUR 2. - OFF THE BEATEN BATHS - Imperial Rome & the Old Appian Way - Duration: 4 hours

Hadrian's Mausoleum (Castel S. Angelo), Baths of Caracalla, Caestius Pyramid and the Aurelian Walls (Rome City Walls) with a walk through the upper level (at St.Sebastian / Appian Gate), the Old Appian Way with the Circus of Maxentius, The Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella and with or without the Quintili's Villa.

The Hadrian's Mausolem (IInd Cent. A.D.), better known as Castel S. Angelo, is the biggest Mausoleum ever built in Europe, which became in the Middle Ages the famous Papal Fortress, other than prisons, in case of invasions, located next to the Vatican Burg.

The Baths of Caracalla were the second largest Thermal Spa of the Roman Empire, veritable splendor of Rome, one of the seven wonders of the Eteranl City that could host up to 3.000 people at once. IN the Summer time houses the Opera Festival.

The Appian Way starts its picturesque vistas with the Aurelian City Walls at the Appian Gate (IIIrd Cent. A.D.), the private Circus of Maxentius along with the unique Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella (Ist Cent. B.C.) and the maginicient Quintili's Villa, at the time privately owned by two brothers who were killed during the time of the Emperor Commodus (180-192 A.D.) on the Appian Way.

Tour Cost - Private Tour Guide with private transportation - 4 hours tour -

• 1-2 people : EUR 500,00
• 3-7 people : EUR 600,00
• 8-17 people * : EUR 90,00 per person
• 18-40 people * : EUR 70,00 per person

* : Included the these costs is also the minibus/bus permit

NOTES:

1. 20 % VAT to be added
2. The entrance fees are not included in the above cost. Our Guides, being official Rome Tour guides, they never pay them.

• Castel S. Angelo: EUR 10,00
• Baths of Caracalla : EUR 6,50
• Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella : EUR 5,00
• Quintili's Villa : EUR 5,00

ANCIENT ROME TOUR 3 - The Roman Empire - Full Day Tour -

The Palatine Hill (Caesars' Palaces)
Baths of Caracalla
Rome Coliseum
The Trajan's Markets and the Imperial Forums
Roman Forum
Capitole Hill and Capitoline Museums
Circus Maximus
Pantheon

Duration: 8 hours

Tour Cost - Private Tour Guide with private transportation - 8 hours tour -

1-2 people : EUR 1.000,00
3-7 people : EUR 1.250,00
8-17 people * : EUR 150,00 per person
18-40 people * : EUR 100,00 per person

* : Included the these costs is also the minibus/bus permit

In the Ancient Rome Tour # 3, in addition to the Ancient Rome Tour # 1, there are :

a) Baths of Caracalla (The Thermal Spa: second largest in the Roman World, containing over 5.000 people at once), one of the seven wonders of the Eternal City.
b) Trajan's Markets, first "Mall" in Rome with 157 shops in one area and all the Forum here connected: the Forum of Trajan, the one of Caesar Augustus and Nerva - the so called: "Imperial Forums".
c) Capitoline Museums, being the oldest museums in the world (1471) where real masterpieces of the 31 Centuries of Rome are: frescos, status, old Rome mosaics, bronzes, wood, terracotta, gilded bronze statues, ceramics, paintings, tombs, sarcofagis, etc.

NOTES:

The entrance fees are not included in the above cost. Our Guides, being official Rome Tour guides, they never pay them.

Capitoline Museums: EUR 7,50 p.p.
Baths of Caracalla: EUR 6,00 p.p.
Trajan's Markets & Forums: EUR 5,00 p.p.

- 20 % VAT to be added