Rome layers the centuries one on top of another. An arena floor where gladiators fought, a chapel ceiling that stopped the world, a dome that has stood for two thousand years. Here is where to begin.
We have left out the queues and kept the moments: standing where gladiators stood, the hush before the Sistine ceiling, a dome that has outlasted empires.
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Stand on the arena floor where gladiators once did, the tiers of the Colosseum rising around you and a guide to fill the silence with two thousand years of spectacle.
Book on tickadoo →Miles of marble, tapestry and gold, ending beneath Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. An early entry means the galleries are yours before the crowds.
Book on tickadoo →The heart of the Vatican, and a climb to the top of Michelangelo's dome for a view straight down the nave and out across Rome.
Book on tickadoo →Two thousand years on, the dome still has no equal and the oculus still opens to the sky. The best preserved building of ancient Rome.
Book on tickadoo →Hadrian's mausoleum turned papal fortress on the Tiber. Spiral ramps, hidden passages and a terrace with one of the finest views in the city.
Book on tickadoo →Descend into the early Christian catacombs, miles of tunnels carved from soft rock, where Rome buried its dead for centuries.
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