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With our exclusive underground Colosseum tour, don’t be one of the crowd. Get to go where few tourists have gone before: into the spooky depths of the hypogeum, where gladiators waited to fight. Feel the fear and practically hear the roars of the crowd above you. You’ll also get to see the arena, the stage where the fighting took place. (Go ahead—yell “Are you not entertained?” to the crowds of tourists stuck on the other, packed levels of the Colosseum!). You’ll even go up to the third level, where you get great views of not only the Colosseum’s interior, but of the forum and Rome itself—a perfect photo op! 

In these areas, you’re not just following in the gladiators’ own footsteps. You’re getting a truly unique experience. That’s especially because other tour companies offering the “underground Colosseum” simply put you on the Colosseum’s own hypogeum tour with a Colosseum guide. Those tours have a maximum of 25 people—twice as big as our 12-person max tours! It also means that other companies can’t guarantee the quality of the tour, its content, or your ability to understand your guide. Also worth noting: those guides do the same tour five or six times a day. Our guides have much more variety… so every tour they give is still fresh and energetic!

Once you’ve had your fill of blood and gore (and learned how it took the Romans 325 years to get their fill!), experience the very heart of ancient Rome: the Roman forum. Here was where Rome ruled its empire of untold political and cultural influence—and of more than 2.5 million square miles and 65 million people. Among the evocative ruins, discover the Arch of Constantine, built by Rome’s first Christian emperor; the Senate house, where toga-clad elites decided on behalf of all of those millions; and the Temple of the Vestal Virgins, where a special cult of women kept Rome’s sacred flame alive. Your guide will bring it all to life with tales of love, betrayal, and larger-than-life characters (Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony…), plus with great visual aids and reconstructions to show you how it all would have looked 2,000 years ago.