Tour Itinerary

This 2:30 hour tour starts by listening to your professional guide about the gladiators while entering this biggest amphitheater through the gladiator entrance. With VIP access you don’t have to wait outside standing in the line.

You will enter the Colosseum underground where once legendary gladiators, animals, and slaves were kept. With the help of a professional guide, you can hear unimaginable stories about gladiators’ combat, naval battles, and other brutal stories which were the centuries-old source of entertainment of Romans.

After the visit of the Underground chambers, you will be taken to the Arena Floor where the ancient gladiators’ games have occurred. From here you will get the total view of the entire amphitheater. Visiting these sights unveils so many dark Rome stories and you will learn so many new things that took place within these ancient walls.

Second Destination: Roman Forum

The next stop on this tour is at the Roman Forum. It’s a vestige city that was once incorporated for important business, political, and religious events. Beautiful Roman ruins are situated here. With the expert-guided tour, you will learn about untold political, religious and cultural leadership by Roman Emperors.

Third Destination: Palatine Hill

Third and the last destination is Palatine Hill, the greatest seven hills of Rome which is 40 meters above the Roman Forum. Can you imagine? This iconic Roman hill was once covered with famous Roman ruins including Emperor Domitian Palace. Today you will surely be mesmerized by the sensational mosaic floor and the country yards here. Such a spectacular view will help you to see Romans from a different perspective.

Tour Overview

With our exclusive Colosseum Underground Tour, you will get to know about the world’s largest and most famous amphitheater, like never before. We offer VIP access to those restricted spaces which are usually not publicly accessible. Enjoy VIP access to the areas of mysterious underground while hearing the story behind this monument from the expert tour guide. The underground chambers and rarely known stories of the Colosseum will take you back to the Gladiators’ time.
 

After the visit to Colosseum underground is complete, our tour guide will take you to the Arena Floor. With a personal audio headset, you can hear the guide’s narration which carries interesting facts, anecdotes, and backgrounds of the Roman Empire. Here you will get a full gladiator-eye-view of what it was like to enter the 2,000 years ago gladiator’s combat floor. After an in-depth tour of Arena Floor, start exploring the next tour destination.

After an in-depth tour at Colosseum, you are move to the Roman Forum, a centre of the societal and commercial life of Romans. It’s the spot where Roman emperors ruled their empires. Not to forget to discover the Palatine Hill where Romulus founded Rome 3000 years ago. This Dark Rome tour at Colosseum simply is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, that shouldn’t be missed.

What to take from this tour

Walk by the footstep of Gladiators

You are going to re-discover the lifestyle of Roman Gladiators while visiting the Colosseum. The underground restricted section let you see how gladiators were lived here and make themselves ready for combat. After that, your guide will lead you up to the arena floor to feel what it was like from the crowd side to cheer up for the bloody events from the comfort of their seats.

Learn the Roman Republic life

While visiting Roman Forum and Palatine Hill, you will learn so much about the Roman Ruins and their politics and social life.. You’ll get the chance to walk by the same road where once battle-hardened soldiers walked on.

Discover the real stories of Dark Rome

This tour brings back life to those rigid truths of Romans which are hard to believe. You can discover the underneath of Ancient Rome while strolling through the open space like Roman Forum.

If you are eager to take an in-depth Dark Rome tour, we will highly recommend taking this Colosseum Underground tour. Of course, the tour started by exploring the pure stone creation. However, standing by those narrow aisles where gladiators once stood before fights gives you such a unique feeling which you can’t experience either way.