3 hours
3 languages
Instant confirmation
Private tour

Highlights

Explore one of the unique underground Christian Catacombs of Rome: • or St. Callixtus • or St. Sebastian • or St. Domitilla After the Catacombs you will visit the Ancient Appian Way and Cecilia Metella Mausoleum. Licensed tour guide and tickets included. Private or Shared Tour available options. Worry-Free and Safe Private Tour Experience, operated only with: • Expert Professional English-Speaking Drivers • Selected local Expert Licensed Tour Guides (when booked) • Welcoming by private licensed fully-insured air-conditioned comfortable Vehicles

Inclusions

What's included

Dedicated Local expert tour guide
Hotel pickup and dropoff
Air-conditioned, fully insured and licensed legal vehicle with professional English Speaking Driver
Skip-The-Line entrance tickets to one of the Catacombs

What's not

Lunch, Food and drinks
Tipping is not included in our service fees,It is never mandatory although it is always appreciated

Itinerary

Halfday tour 3 hours in total. You will visit one among the following Catacombs: St. Callixtus or St. Sebastian or St. Domitilla. Visit duration is about 1 hour. Skip-The-Line Tickets included. Once you get to the Catacombs you'll start your visit inside with a small-group guided tour in your preferred language given by the Catacombs staff (available in English, French, German and Spanish). After the Catacombs visit, with your licensed guide, you to will see: - Ancient Appian Way - Cecilia Metella Mausoleum (from ouside) At the end of the tour your driver will take you back to your accommodation in Rome.
3 h
Catacombs of San Callixtus (admission included): The Crypt of the Popes, or the Catacombs of Callixtus, were built after AD 150. It takes its name from the deacon Saint Callixtus, proposed by Pope Zephyrinus in the administration of the same cemetery - on his accession as pope, he enlarged the complex, and soon it became the official one for the Roman Church. The arcades, where more than fifty martyrs and sixteen pontiffs were buried, form part of a complex graveyard that occupies 15 hectares and is around 12 miles (20 km) long.
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Catacombs of St. Domitilla: These are the oldest of Rome's underground burial networks, and the only ones to still contain bones. They are also the best preserved and one of the most extensive of all the Catacombs. Included in their passages are a 2nd-century fresco of the Last Supper and other valuable artifacts. There are around 4,000,000 bodies buried in St. Domitilla. They are the only Catacombs that have a subterranean Basilica.
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Catacombs of St. Sebastian: One of the smallest Christian cemeteries, the Catacombs of San Sebastiano have always been some of the most accessible catacombs and are thus some of the least preserved (of the four original floors, the first is almost completely gone). On the left end of the right hand wall of the nave of the primitive basilica (rebuilt in 1933 on ancient remains), arches to end the middle of the nave of the actual 13th-century church are visible, along with the outside of the apse of the Chapel of the Relics; whole and fragmentary collected sarcophagi (mostly dating from the 4th century) were found in excavations.
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The Tomb of Caecilia Metella (from outside): It was built during the 1st century BC to honor Caecilia Metella who was the daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, a roman consul. The Tomb of Caecilia Metella is one of the most well known and well preserved monuments along the Via Appia and a popular tourist site.
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The Appian Way was Europe’s first super highway and remains one of the best attractions in Rome. Possibly the oldest road still in existence, it was ancient Rome’s most important military and economic artery and it’s largely intact today!
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Cancellation

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Know before you go

Pickup: Pickup is included for everyone.
Ticket type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Operated by: ItalyBestExcursions

Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Air-conditioned, fully insured and licensed legal vehicle with professional English-speaking Driver
This is a private Tour. Only your group will participate. Private Tour can be modified and/or customized (if requested at booking time). Except inside Catacombs where you'll start your visit inside with a small-group tour mandatorily organized from Catacombs Staff.
Christian Catacombs ticket includes the small group tour guide (available languages: English, Spanish, Italian)

How it compares in Rome

Its from-price is 212% above the median of the 8352 experiences we list in Rome.
Its length is typical for the group.
By number of reviews it ranks 3999 of 8352.

About Rome

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