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Get into the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum in central Rome through the fast track entrance with a combined package. Enjoy a hassle-free…
Enjoy priority access to the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill. Dive into the past and walk in the footsteps of Roman emperors and…
Skip the line to see the most important sites of Ancient Rome brought to life. Visit the Colosseum, Forum, and Palatine Hill on a self-guided tour.…
Explore Ancient Rome on a walking tour of the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill, and skip the lines to enter the popular attractions with an…
Walk in the footsteps of the gladiators on this unique tour of the Colosseum and its arena floor. Explore the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill with an…
Join a tour to see the most important sites of Ancient Rome brought to life. Visit the Colosseum, Forum, and Palatine Hill with an expert guide and…
Enter the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill with your combination ticket. Enjoy a hassle-free experience at your own pace and take advantage…
The ancient glory of Rome is reborn! Skip the line at three of the Eternal City’s most significant remnants: the Colosseum, Palatine Hill and Roman…
Visit some of Rome's most famous monuments, the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill. Explore these famous sights at your own pace.
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Unlike the other forums across Rome's empire, the ancient capital's center of public life wasn't simply planned and built, but evolved slowly as the great city grew. Here are five facts about the original Forum Romanum's history!
Situated on a marshy plain between the key Capitoline and Palatine Hills of Rome, the site naturally became a local meeting point long before an official Forum was planned.
Legend has it that the initial Comitium emerged after both hilltop tribes made peace. Until Rome's 5th king built the Cloaca Maxima, most of the site was too swampy to be usable.
The forum served as the center of Rome's public life for centuries, hosting public speeches, military processions, criminal trials, gladiatorial matches, markets, and much more!
Constantine I built the Basilica of Maxentius in 312AD as the last major expansion of the forum. Over time, several of the other temples were converted into Christian churches.
Flooding of the Tiber river and erosion from its surrounding hills caused the ground to rise, slowing covering the monuments. By the Middle Ages the site was being used as a pasture!
Tickets are valid for two days but also cover the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. That's a lot to see so make sure you arrive there nice and early on both days! The Forum opens from 8:30AM (except holidays), but closing times vary depending on the season. You'll have more time between April and September.
If not booking in advance, use the Palatine Hill ticket office, as the queue will be mercifully short compared to that at the Colosseum!
Don't let the maps fool you! Although there are Metro stations nearby, none of them are that close to an actual entrance! Colosseo (by the Colosseum, in case it's not obvious) is the closest but you'll still need to walk to the main entrance up Via dei Fori Imperiali. Otherwise, take either the 51, 85, 87, 118, or 810 bus to the stop Fori Imperiali.
It was a great experience, having a guide is always the best option when you want things to go as smoothly as possible and get all the information you would struggle to get if you went by yourself. Our guide was jolly and answered our questions as best he could. The only issues I had were that we didn't have time to visit the gift shops and it went on for longer than initially told so I would advise bringing lots of water, some lunch, and a sunhat if it's a hot season. Best be prepared! Other than this it was an interesting guide!
It was a wonderful walk through the ancient history with two very knowledgeable guides. The first part covered Roman forum and Palatine hill with a very smart guide, who turned out to be a history teacher. He has given us a lot of information. I wish we had at least a couple of hours of more time with him so as to assimilate all the information. The colosseum trip, including the underground and arena was amazing too. Besides the guides, the two ladies whom we met at the meeting point were very nice and welcoming.
We were in a group of 24 people with basic interest to advanced knowledge of ancient Roman history. The guide Antonella Palma had the abilty to capture and maintain one's attention for 3,5 hours with superior knowledge and answering to all levels of interest. After the tour one could really put the Roman jig-saw puzzle together in one's imagination in a very understandable way and one really felt that the tour answered to why one participated in the tour.
I know you have directions but when you are visiting a place you don’t realize the distance. We didn’t save time probably because was not summer, the lines were short and my family had to wait for me to pick up the tickets. I appreciate the lady give me some time to go back and reschedule my tickets. What amazed me is that we had our digital tickets but I had to go to the office to get printed out.
Silvio gave us a warm, thoughtful, and deep understanding of the Colosseum Tour. However, Crown Tours did not have all of their employees wearing purple and left many of us wondering if we were in the right group. It also was not clear that we would be thrown into a new group after the Colosseum Tour, and there was no clear handing us off to the new leader.
