Private Tour of Vatican and Rome's Icons - lunch & Luxury Cars!





Description
Take a whirlwind tour of Rome in just one day! This Tour is all about Rome's 8 best attractions: the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, Trevi Fountain, Spanish steps, Circus Maximus, the Palatine Hill and Colosseum views. A Private team will take you to the Vatican for a complete guided visit. Your chauffeur-driven luxury car will stop right next to the above city sights; this part of the tour is totally customizable! Your guide will share anecdotes with you about Rome's past and present. USEFUL INFO: - Big bags or backpacks and big umbrellas are not allowed inside the sites (regular bags, backpacks, and foldable umbrellas are allowed). - Cover knees and shoulders inside the Sistine and the Churches. - Guides cannot avoid metal detector checks - St. Peter's Basilica might close without prior notice, mostly during Easter and Christmas. Last minute, we are unable to organize the Tour differently. We will explain the Basilica from St. Peter's Square.
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Itinerary
Your private driver will pick you at your location and bring you to the meeting with your private guide. You will enter the Vatican Museums overflow with masterpieces by many of Italy’s most important Italian artists, sitting alongside important works from Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. You will walk through famous galleries such as tapestries and maps. You will learn the secrets of The Sistine Chapel, with its enormous Michelangelo’s frescoes. Here you will have time to observe the details of his sublime “Last Judgment”. Your guide will bring you directly from the Sistine Chapel into St. Peter’s Basilica, the world’s largest Church, to admire Michelangelo’s “Pietà” and other highlights. Timing includes transfers
Just before ending your tour of the Vatican, you will enjoy the curved colonnades of St. Peter’s Square before a brief sighting of the Pope’s Balcony. Remember to cover knees and shoulders before entering the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. At the end of this exclusive experience, your driver will bring you back to your location in Rome Timing includes transfers
You will admire the Trevi Fountain, a secretive masterpiece, and perhaps the most spectacular fountain in Rome. Built at the end of one of the famed aqueducts that supplied the Roman Empire with water, this iconic setting attracts many visitors. Toss a coin into its waters to ensure a safe return to Rome at some stage in the future.
You will head to the Spanish Steps, one of the city's most popular tourist attractions. As you stand and admire the Church of Trinità dei Monti, located at the top of the famous staircase, you will see the Fontana della Barcaccia at its base. You might wonder how this impressive structure was ever completed.
Visit from outside: the Colosseum, or Flavian Amphitheatre, is the largest ancient amphitheater and a symbol of Imperial Rome. Built between 70 and 80 AD, it hosted gladiatorial contests, animal hunts, and executions, accommodating 50,000 to 80,000 spectators based on social rank. Made of travertine limestone, this four-story elliptical structure features a complex system of vaults and arches.
The Circus Maximus was the largest stadium in ancient Rome, primarily used as a massive chariot-racing arena that could accommodate over 150,000 spectators. Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine Hills, it remains a significant archaeological site that highlights the Roman passion for grand-scale public entertainment.
You will enjoy a typical lunch at a selected restaurant. First Course - a choice of Pasta among : • Amatriciana - Guanciale (cured pork), tomato sauce and pecorino romano cheese, • Carbonara - fresh eggs, pecorino romano cheese, guanciale (cured pork), and black pepper • Gricia - Pecorino romano cheese, black pepper, and guanciale (cured pork) • Spaghetti with tomato sauce • Arrabbiata – tomato sauce (cooked with garlic), hot peppers, parsley Main course (comes with salad or potatoes) – a choice among: • Saltimbocca alla romana - veal escalopes with prosciutto and fresh sage leaves • Pollo Alla Romana – chicken with peppers • Polpette al Sugo - meatballs with tomato sauce • Scaloppine – veal escalopes cooked with lemon water In case of allergies or specific diets, the restaurant will welcome different requests, preferably in advance at the moment of the booking. Any extra to be paid directly on the spot
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
WE PICK UP FROM ALL CENTRALLY LOCATED HOTELS, B&B, APARTMENTS, RAIL STATIONS, AND THE PORT! Kindly enter the pick-up/drop-off location. YOUR ACCOMMODATION IS NOT BOOKED YET: no worries, you will book it later and amend the reservation. YOUR HOTEL/APARTMENT/B&B IS **NOT IN CENTRAL ROME** ( a radius of about 7 km from the Pantheon ). Let us know if the location is more distant; we will communicate the supplement for the extra distance. Pick up from Fiumicino or Civitavecchia requires a transfer supplement. Please add a mobile phone to your booking (if possible with a WhatsApp connection) and use your primary email address to make sure you receive your confirmation. **If you do not receive further messages, default pick up time is confirmed (8:15 from central Rome)**
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS AND STROLLERS: Visits to Ancient Rome and the Vatican Museums involve significant walking. Elevators are available for visitors with mobility issues, and a considerable portion of the museum features wheelchair-accessible paths. Please note that visitors with limited mobility can contact us to request special accommodations, such as wheelchairs or walkers. A member of your group will be responsible for pushing the wheelchair. Please note that wheelchairs, walkers, and strollers are not permitted in the passage connecting the Basilica's courtyard due to the 50 steps that are both downwards and upwards. The tour will conclude with a visit to the Museums. It is forbidden to split the group to allow part of it to continue inside the Basilica. The whole group is requested to stay with the guide. For the same reason, we suggest avoiding strollers and using a baby sling instead.
Reviews(4)
No regrets. Our driver was great, and our guide was awesome. There was no waiting at all, even at the Vatican. Driver parked and tour guide walked us around. She knew everyone there and everything about the areas we visited. At one point, we got stranded in Rome when a private car service did not show up, and the driver from our private tours went out of her way to pick us up and drive us all the way to our hotel in Civitavecchia.
Amazing tour with an excellent tour guide, Patricia. Very knowledgeable, dedicated and engaged for the best results. Recommended without any doubt.
We really enjoyed our tour. Our guide Andy did an excellent job showing us around explaining what we were looking at. Fantastic lunch was included in the tour



