Rome: Colosseum Underground Tour – Rome, Italy

EXPERIENCE:

Visit three of Rome’s most famous attractions: the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill, and enjoy skip-the-line entry tickets. Learn about Roman history while exploring some of ancient Rome’s most iconic locations.

Enter the Colosseum and meet a guide from the Colosseum’s own staff, and enter gates to access the underground and arena floor. See the “backstage area” of the Colosseum, where the gladiators prepared for the bloody games above.

Explore the areas where animals were caged before being hoisted to the arena above, where the system of levers and pulleys can still be evidenced today. Listen as your guide explains how the underground was used for the games 2,000 years ago.

Be led out onto the arena floor, and appreciate how the system from the underground worked together with the arena floor, including where the trapdoors opened up for the entrance of gladiators and animals.

Feel what it was like to be a Roman Gladiator, as you stand in their footsteps on the Colosseum Arena, and look around the stadium.

Continue your Colosseum visit at your own pace, to all of the general access areas where ordinary ticket holders go, including the upper tier, from where you can imagine being a spectator and enjoying the magnificent views of the Arena and Underground from above.

Use your ticket to visit the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, which was the center of Roman life 2000 years ago, and walk around the ruins of the temples and monuments that can still be seen today.

Enjoy a ticket that is valid for the Roman Forum/Palatine Hill visit for 48 hours after the time of your Colosseum entry to choose when you want to visit the famous sites.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Discover Colosseum’s premier levels, the Colosseum Underground and Arena
Experience life as a gladiator as you go through the Gladiator’s Gate
Learn how the Colosseum Underground operated as a backstage
Skip the long lines to visit the main monuments of Ancient Rome
Visit the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill within 2 days of your Colosseum visit

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