Civitavecchia Cruise Port Shore Excursion: Family Friendly Rome with Gelato

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Pass By: ItalyBestExcursions, Piazza Venezia, Rome Italy

Visit the highlights of Rome in One-Fullday Memorable Tour.

Your professional English-speaking driver will wait for you at the pier just outside the ship with a sign with your name and then enjoy a one hour journey to Rome by private air-conditioned vehicle.

During your highway one hour journey, you will take in views of the Roman countryside and the Tyrrhenian Sea.

It is impossible to concentrate 17 Centuries of History in one tour, however, this guided visit touches the most significant sites of Rome.

You will see the magnificent views of ancient Rome:
• Colosseum
• Arch of Constantine
• Trajan’s Column
• Circus Maximus
• Venice Square and the Wedding cake
• Pantheon
• Trevi Fountain
• Spanish Steps

Free time for lunch where the driver can suggest a nice café, restaurant or pizzeria within your desired budget.

After lunch, you will proceed to:
• St. Peter’s Basilica and it’s magnificent Square.

Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Skip-The-Line Option:

if local licensed guide option selected you will enjoy a 2 hour visit to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, with a selected private guide.

In this option are included the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Skip-The-Line Tickets.

Important information: on Sunday the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel are closed.

If you book your Tour on Sunday or on other Vatican closures, instead Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, you will visit one of the Catacombs in Rome (tour guide in small group and tickets included) and the Ancient Appian Way. No refund is due.

The Driver will offer to you an excellent

Gelato Tasting!

In an artisan production gelato store where flavours are realized following the best artisan tradition: a great and tasty variety for an organic gelato good in every season. Ice creams with the best nutritional values, organics, gluten free. Artisan gelatos are made with the best ingredients.

At the end of the tour the driver will take you back to the port of Civitavecchia.

Stop At: Colosseum, Piazza del Colosseo, 00184 Rome Italy

The Colosseum is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome.

The Colosseum could hold, it is estimated, between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles.

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Arco di Costantino, Via di San Gregorio, 00186 Rome Italy

The Arch of Constantine (Italian: Arco di Costantino) is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill


Pass By: Roman Forum, Piazza Santa Maria Nova, 53, 00186 Rome Italy

For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome


Pass By: Circus Maximus, Via del Circo Massimo Between Via dei Cerchi and Via del Circo Massimo, 00153 Rome Italy

The Circus Maximus (Latin for greatest or largest circus; Italian: Circo Massimo) is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue. The site is now a public park.

Stop At: Pantheon, Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Rome Italy

The Pantheon ("temple of all the gods") is a former Roman temple, now a church, in Rome, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). It was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. Since the Renaissance the Pantheon has been the site of several important burials. Among those buried there are the painters Raphael and Annibale Carracci. Two kings of Italy are buried in the Pantheon: Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, as well as Umberto's Queen, Margherita.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Piazza Venezia, 00187 Rome Italy

Piazza Venezia is the central hub of Rome, in which several thoroughfares intersect, including the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the Via del Corso. It takes its name from the Palazzo Venezia, built by the Venetian Cardinal alongside the church of Saint Mark, the patron saint of Venice. The Palazzo Venezia served as the embassy of the Republic of Venice in Rome. One side of the Piazza is the site of Italy's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della Patria, part of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy. The piazza or square is at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and next to Trajan's Forum. The main artery, the Via di Fori Imperiali begins there and leads past the Roman Forum to the Colosseum.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna, 00187 Rome Italy

Piazza di Spagna, at the bottom of the Spanish Steps, is one of the most famous squares in Rome. It owes its name to the Palazzo di Spagna, seat of the Embassy of Spain among the Holy See. Nearby is the famed Column of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Rome Italy

The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini and several others. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide,[1] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain has appeared in several notable films, including Roman Holiday, Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, the eponymous Three Coins in the Fountain, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, and Sabrina Goes to Rome.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: St. Peter's Basilica, Piazza di San Pietro, 00120 Vatican City Italy

You will enjoy the Basilica from the imponent Square.

Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom".

Duration: 30 minutes