Rome Hop On-Hop Off Open Bus|Colosseum, Vatican Museum Group Tour

Enjoy Rome with the exclusive Hop-on Hop-Off Formula.
Onboard you'll find 8 different languages commentary
Stops on this route 8
1-Roma Termini. Here you can find TERMINAL A and TERMINAL B
2-Piazza di S. Maria Maggiore
3-Piazza del Colosseo. You can get off here to join your Colosseum Tour.
4-Circo Massimo, 00153 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy
from there, you can easily reach some points of interest in Rome, like the Mouth of the Truth or Trastevere Area on the opposite side of the river bank.
5-Piazza Venezia, Roma RM, Italy
Here you have the central Rome City Center hub. You can easily reach any place in the city center, near Capitole Hill or Trajan's Market. But also the most significant areas in the city center like Trevi Fountain or the Pantheon.
6-Castel Sant'Angelo, Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy
7-Vatican Museums, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Roma RM
(This stop is the closest to the Vatican Museum Tour.
8-Via Veneto,
9-Piazza Barberini

Learn the story of tRome and its most important monuments on a half-day tour of Ancient Rome. Enjoy skip-the-line privileges at the Colosseum, Palatine Hill, and Roman Forum. Next, go to Palatine Hill to see where the elite emperors took residence. Admire the views of the Circus Maximus on one side and the Roman Forum on the other. See the ruins of the Temple of Julius Caesar, built in the same spot where his body was cremated. Look at the Arch of Titus, House of the Vestal Virgins, Senate House, Basilica of Maxentius and much more.

Reach Vatican City, home to some of the most famous tourist destinations in the world, to attend your Vatican Museum Guided Tour. Throughout history, wealthy and famous visitors have presented the Popes with some of the most important works of art in Western history. These include multiple sculpture museums with unique galleries dedicated to statues, busts, and masks. Even more impressive is the collection of paintings with works by Da Vinci, Bellini, Titian and a suite of rooms dedicated to the frescoes of Raphael. Thoroughly educated in the history of these masterpieces, our guides will take you on an intimate tour of the Vatican Museums, leading you directly to the most important works and offering valuable information along the way. Continue to the Sistine Chapel.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone of High Renaissance art. The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named. The ceiling was painted at the commission of Pope Julius II.
The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger decoration scheme within the chapel. Before Michelangelo's contribution, the walls were painted by several leading artists of the late 15th century, including Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Pietro Perugino. After the ceiling was painted, Raphael created a set of large tapestries (1515–1516) to cover the lower portion of the wall. Michelangelo returned to the chapel to create The Last Judgment, a large wall fresco behind the altar. The chapel's decoration illustrates much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church, serving as the location for papal conclaves and many other essential services.

The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.

For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world and in all history.[2] In the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, today's Forum is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations, attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.[3]

The Palatine Hill (/ˈpælətaɪn/; Latin: Collis Palatium or Mons Palatinus; Italian: Palatino [palaˈtiːno]), which, relative to the seven hills of Rome, is the centremost, is one of the most ancient parts of the city and has been called "the first nucleus of the Roman Empire."[1] The site is now mainly a sizeable open-air museum, while the Palatine Museum houses many finds from the excavations here and other ancient Italian sites.

Imperial palaces were built here, starting with Augustus. Before imperial times the hill was occupied mainly by the houses of the rich.

The hill originally had two summits separated by depression; the highest part was called Palatium and the other Germalus (or Cermalus). Using the Forma Urbis, its perimeter enclosed 63 acres (25 ha); while the Regional Catalogues of the 4th century enclose 131 acres (53 ha).[2]