Colosseum tour with virtual reality and Gladiator's Barracks access

Your day begins in front of the Colosseum, where you’ll meet your expert guide. The area where you’re standing once held the gargantuan bronze statue of Nero that gave the ancient stadium its name. The statue has been lost since the 4th century, but you’ll get to see what it looked like thanks to your VR goggles.

After seeing how different your surroundings appeared some 2,000 years ago, you’ll head down into a nondescript ruin called the Ludus Magnus: this was the main gladiator school that trained fighters for the Colosseum. As your guide tells stories about the brutal lives of these ancient sports stars, your VR goggles will rebuild the gladiator’s cells and practice ground. You’ll also see the remains of a tunnel that used to take combatants directly into the Colosseum underground, from where they were hoisted onto the arena floor.

From there, you’ll skip the line to the Colosseum and enjoy a full tour of Rome’s most iconic monument. While traveling with an expert guide, you’ll see what the Colosseum looked like in the days when 50,000 people piled inside to witness the blood sports that made it famous.

You’ll then head over to the Roman Forum and Palatine Hill with your archaeologist tour guide. You’ll learn about beautiful and important buildings like the Temple of the Vestal Virgins, the Temple of Saturn, and the Basilica of Maxentius. Finding it hard to picture it all? No problem - you’ll see what these ancient structures looked like with a couple of VR viewpoints.

As you climb the Palatine Hill, passing the ruins of palaces of the ancient Roman elite, you'll finally reach the crest of the hill, where you'll have a great overlook of the Circus Maximus. Today it looks like a wide, grassy field, but when you peek through your glasses, you'll see ancient chariot races with crowds of 250,000 people.