Essential Rome Combo | Colosseum & Vatican Semi-Private Tour

Important Notice: Jubilee Year 2025
As part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, St. Peter’s Basilica may experience unexpected partial or complete closures. In the rare event that the Basilica cannot be visited, rest assured that your tour experience will remain exceptional. Your guide will seamlessly adapt the itinerary to include alternative highlights, ensuring the full duration and quality of your tour.

LivTours’ Essential Rome Combo Semi-Private Tour brings you the most privileged tour by combining two exclusive tours of the Vatican and the Colosseum. Imagine seeing the magnificent vaults of the Sistine Chapel and visiting two restricted areas of the Colosseum with your expert guide and in a group of max six people!

Bask in the 8,000 square feet of frescos that adorn the Sistine Chapel and walk on the very floors of the Colosseum where thousands of souls were lost fighting for their lives in the most infamous games in history with LivTours’ combo experience of Rome’s two most iconic sites.

Proud to be an Accredited Tour Operator of the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo.

• See the two best highlights of the Eternal City in one day on this semi-private tour
• Visit the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel with a 5-star guide
• Maximize your enjoyment with LivTours exclusive special access
• Enjoy visiting the Vatican Museums - one of the largest art collections in the world

**All Colosseum tours require photo ID for all participants; plan to bring your passports on the day of your tour. Failure to show identification will result in the denial of entry to the site.**

LivTours’ Essential Rome Combo Semi-Private Tour starts at the iconic Colosseum where you will meet your expert LivTours guide and the other travelers in your maximum six-person group. With LivTours’ privileged access to the Colosseum, you will get direct entry, maximizing your time with your professional guide.  Once inside, you will learn about the construction and the uses of the imposing ancient building, and hear stories about gladiators, theater shows, and wild animal fights that used to take place here. After some bloody gladiator stories and opportunities to take memorable pictures, your guide will take you to the nearby Roman Forum.

On your essential Rome Combo tour, your guide will share with you the amazing stories about Romulus and the Kings, Julius Caesar, Octavian, Hadrian, and many more while you stroll through ruins, walking on original paving stones.  You will learn how the city of Rome first started and how it grew to become the largest political and military power of the ancient world.

Between tours, you will have free time for a lunch break (not included in the price) before making your way to your next tour.

Then, with more energy, your action-packed day continues, with your guide by your side, in the Vatican Museums. Skipping the long lines, you will enjoy LivTours’ priority access, so get ready to see the highlights of the vast art collection housed here.  Your guide will make sure you see the lavishly decorated halls and visit the Gallery of Maps, Gallery of Tapestries, the Raphael Rooms, and of course, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.

Admire the masterpieces as your guide entertains you with the fascinating history of the Popes and the artists that worked for them. Your tour’s last stop is St Peter’s Basilica, the largest Catholic church in the world, where you will admire Michelangelo’s Pietà, the Bernini Baldacchino, and Michelangelo’s dome.

After your complete tour of the Vatican Museum, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica you will be ready to call it a day. Now it is time to sit back and enjoy the evening knowing that you have seen the best of the Eternal City!

• Colosseum Entry Tickets
• Roman Forum
• Palatine Hill
• Skip the line Vatican tickets
• Sistine Chapel
• St Peters Basilica
• St Peters square

• Please note: this tour is combination of two of our most popular tours, our Best of Colosseum tour & Highlights of the Vatican tour, at a discounted rate. Each tour duration is 3 hours, giving you sufficient free time for a leisurely lunch and to make your way to the next meeting point. You will be informed of the exact start times and meeting points of each tour upon booking.
• **All Colosseum tours require photo ID for all participants; plan to bring your passports on the day of your tour. Failure to show identification will result in the denial of entry to the site.**
• Important Notice Jubilee Year 2025: As part of the 2025 Jubilee celebrations, from December 24th, 2024 to January 6th, 2026, St. Peter’s Basilica may experience unexpected partial or complete closures. In the rare event that the Basilica cannot be visited, rest assured that your tour experience will remain exceptional. Your guide will seamlessly adapt the itinerary to include alternative highlights, ensuring the full duration and quality of your tour. Please note that, in accordance with our Terms & Conditions agreed upon at the time of booking, partial or full refunds cannot be issued due to Basilica closures.
• Places of worship have strict dress code requirements for entry. All participants are required to have shoulders and knees covered (no tank tops or short dresses) to enter.
• There is no photography allowed in the Sistine Chapel.
• St. Peter’s Basilica is an active church and can be closed unexpectedly for liturgical ceremonies. If closed, the time inside the Vatican Museums will be extended.
• Please be aware that the Sistine Chapel is a Holy Place and talking during your visit inside is strictly forbidden, therefore your guide will give you an explanation of the Sistine Chapel beforehand during your tour, in order to give you a comprehensive explanation before entering the chapel.
• Backpacks are not permitted in the museum.
• IMPORTANT: Please advise our team if you believe that a disability qualifies you for complimentary access to the Vatican.
• Guests with wheelchair accessibility needs will find difficulty with the itinerary proposed in this tour. In order to ensure a barrier-free tour with alternative routes, please book the private version of this tour.
• In order to book this experience, you must be at least 2 participants.
• LivTours’ group size of max 6 participants is and always has been based on sustainable travel.
  

 

All LivTours Semi-Private Group Tours are limited to 6 guests per tour guide. Our commitment to maintaining our uniquely tiny group sizes can sometimes be a little tricky, mathematically speaking. For example, we want to ensure that traveling families and friends can tour together so on rare occasions we may add one or two guests in order to not split groups. On that same note, you may also find yourself on tour with less than six people! We thank you for your understanding and flexibility.

 

 

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