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Combined ticket: Vatican, Colosseum and St. Peter’s Basilica

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Combined ticket for visiting the main places of interest in Rome. Priority access and audio guide included in the price.

  • Location:
    Ufficio Touristation, viale Vaticano, 97


  • Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian

  • Instant ticket delivery:
    Yes

  • Accessibility:
    Wheelchair accessible

  • Ticket on smartphone:
    Available

Combined ticket: Colosseum and St. Peter's Basilica

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This ticket allows you to discover the most important tourist attractions of Rome with a single skip-the-line ticket. You will have three days time to visit both the most requested sites of the Vatican, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, and the most visited sites in Rome: the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum.

Included in the package, the viewing of the immersive video on ancient Rome at the Roman Forum and the audio guide that will accompany on your visit to Rome.

Skip-the-line ticket for the most important monuments of Rome and the Vatican

The skip-the-line ticket represents the most complete offer for the tourist who wants to visit the most important monuments of Rome and the Vatican.

What is included in the ticket:

  • Skip the line to the Vatican Museums
  • Skip the line to the Sistine Chapel
  • Entrance to St. Peter’s Basilica (with audio guide)
  • Entrance to the Colosseum
  • Entrance to the Palatine Hill
  • Entrance to the Roman Forum
  • 25-minute multimedia video on Ancient Rome at the “Foro Romano” Touristation office
  • Rome audio guide (available in Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Russian)

Priority access to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel

The first stop on the tour is the Vatican Museums, at the entrance of which you must provide your priority access ticket.

The Vatican Museums houses an extraordinary collection of works of art collected by popes since Pope Julius II, in 1506, decided to expose to the public the Laocoonte, the extraordinary marble group found near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Over the centuries this museum center has been enriched with priceless sculptures from the ancient world, from Renaissance and Baroque paintings, to modern and contemporary works by artists such as Matisse and Dalì. In reality it is a museum complex, which includes 12 museums, from the Vatican Pinacoteca, where it is possible to admire works by Giotto , Leonardo , Raphael and Caravaggio, to the Pio-Clementino museum, where you can admire Greek and Roman sculptures, up to the Gregorian Egyptian museum, which includes artifacts and mummies from ancient Egypt.

You also have access to the Sistine Chapel (history and description of the Sistine Chapel), the spearhead of the exhibition itinerary of the Vatican Museums. You can admire the splendid frescoes by Perugino, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio, but above all the extraordinary ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, frescoed by Michelangelo Buonarroti.

St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican with audio guide

The visit to the Vatican Museums is quite demanding, but if you still have time available, you can also visit St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on the same day . Located a few steps from the exit of the Vatican Museums, St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of the churches of Christianity in the world and one of the symbolic monuments of Renaissance architecture.

Inside the basilica it is possible to admire the majesty of the interior and the considerable size of the dome. There is no shortage of important works such as the canopy designed by Bernini and the Pietà by Michelangelo.

Included in the ticket, the audio guide of St. Peter’s Basilica, which can be listened to directly through the app or can be downloaded to your mobile phone and listened to offline.

Entrance to the Colosseum, Palatine Hill and Roman Forum

The ticket also allows you to visit the most fascinating places rich in history of the Eternal City: the Colosseum, the Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum.

The Palatine has been, since ancient times, the hill of the Roman nobilitas , and has preserved this characteristic throughout the empire: it is in fact here that you can see the houses of Augustus, Livia, Tiberius, Domitian and some of the most important temples of Rome.

The visit to the Palatine is a real archaeological walk in the heart of Rome, and can only end with the entrance to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum , always included in the pass.

Instructions

Select the start date and time of the tour, i.e. access to the Vatican Museums, which represent the first stop.

  • 1st stop: Touristation office located in viale Vaticano, 97.
    Show up at least 10 minutes (we recommend 20) before the booking time and show the ticket on your smartphone. Book your visit to the Colosseum at the same time
  • 2nd stage: visit to the Vatican Museums
  • 3rd stage: visit to the Colosseum and the following Palatine Hill and Roman Forum
  • Stop without reservation: St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Stop without reservation: Touriststation office “Foro Romano” for viewing the multimedia video on ancient Rome (duration: 25 minutes)

The pass is activated at the first entrance to the Vatican Museums and can also be shown to the service staff from your smartphone, without having to download and print the ticket.

Both for entry to the Colosseum and for entry to the Vatican it is necessary to choose a time slot, which must be strictly respected, and go to the pre-established meeting point.

Other information

Zaini, suitcases and large trolleys are not allowed inside the archaeological area of ​​the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums . It is also allowed to introduce small backpacks and bags (at the discretion of the staff), which will be checked with a metal detector.

It is not allowed to bring dangerous objects, glass bottles and alcohol.

It is recommended to wear comfortable and practical clothing for visiting the Colosseum, Palatine Hill and Roman Forum, while to enter the Vatican Museums it is mandatory to have covered shoulders and knees.

The following are not included in the combined ticket:

  • Access to the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Guided Tour

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