Private Colosseum and Caesar’s Palace Tour
Rome
3.5 hours
10Highlights
- Step past the ropes into a Super Site most visitors never even get offered, chosen for what's open that day
- Stand in rooms frescoed nearly 2,000 years ago, colors still visible on the plaster
- Explore the Roman Forum where temples were built, destroyed, and rebuilt as churches on the same foundations across a thousand years of Roman and Christian history
- Walk the Colosseum's first and second tiers, built for 50,000 people to fill and empty in minutes
- Cover the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and the restricted Super Sites in a 3.5-hour tour with your own guide, shaped around your own family or group.
Tour description
Why Take This Tour?
This tour offers a rare invitation into the Roman Empire’s most private spaces in your own private group. This tour goes further, deeper, and into places others can’t, from the imperial secrets hidden deep in Palatine Hill to the spectacle of the Colosseum arena. With an expert guide just for your group, this isn’t just sightseeing, it’s access. The kind few ever get.
Ancient Rome Unlocked
Your guide meets your group, leads you first into the Roman Forum, the political and religious heart of the ancient world for over a thousand years. You'll walk the same ground where senators debated, emperors were crowned, and the Republic slowly gave way to the Empire.
A Room Closed to Regular Visitors
From the Forum, you'll climb Palatine Hill and step into one of the Super Sites, restricted areas normally closed to the public. Depending on what's open that day, your guide might lead you into the House of Augustus, where frescoes painted nearly 2,000 years ago still hold their color, or the Domus Tiberiana, the empire's very first imperial palace or Santa Maria Antiqua - Rome’s first Christian monument, hidden beneath centuries of earth. Since it's just your group, your guide can focus on the history that interests you most.
Into the Colosseum
After walking through palaces and imperial corridors, you’ll enter the Colosseum with priority access. You'll explore the first and second tiers, the same seats where more than 50,000 Romans once watched gladiators, animal hunts, and executions unfold. With time to explore both tiers alongside your expert guide, the Colosseum reveals not just its architecture, but the stories etched into every stone.
Built for You
This is a fully private tour, just your own family or friends, capped at 10 guests, a guide, and 3.5 hours in the heart of Ancient Rome.
Walks Tours is proud to be an Official Parco Archeologico del Colosseo Operator approved to lead guided tours of the Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Hill.
IMPORTANT: The full names of all participants must be provided at the time of booking and match the names on their ID. The Colosseum requires all guests (including children) to present government ID at the time of entry. Therefore any guest that does not submit their name in advance of the tour, or who does not bring their ID to the meeting point, will be refused participation without refund.
Please note that this description is an example and your experience may vary depending on the season, day of the week, and group size. Regardless of where your tour goes, you always have an excellent experience.
