🏨 Skip the Line: Crypts and Roman Catacombs Small-Group Guided Tour with Transfers Activity

Skip the Line: Crypts and Roman Catacombs Small-Group Guided Tour with Transfers

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 3 hours

Departs: Rome, Rome

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Descend into the chill of Rome’s mysterious underworld with Skip-the-Line access to three of the city’s strangest discoveries. Unmask a new side to the Eternal City as you explore the eerie Bone Chapel, adorned with the bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks, and the Christian Catacombs, a series of hidden tunnels where early Christian’s practiced their forbidden faith. Then travel beneath the Basilica San Martino ai Monti to discover layers of ancient foundations offering an insight to civilizations long fallen.

What's Included

Access to the Basilica San Martino Ai Monti

Access to the Capuchin Crypt and Museum

Air-conditioned vehicle

Professional, English speaking guide

Skip-the-line access to the Christian Catacombs of Rome

Small groups of up to 16 people or fewer

What's Not Included

Food and drinks, unless specified

Gratuities

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 1
CHILD: Age: 2 - 14
ADULT: Age: 15 - 99

Additional Info

All customers will need to wear a FFP2 mask throughout the bus journey.
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Government-imposed COVID restrictions for entering countries and venues (e.g. booster shot, negative COVID test, vaccine certificate with a QR code) may change with little notice. It is the responsibility of all visitors to ensure they check the official
Not recommended for those who are effected by claustrophobia
Please note that the visit to the Basilica of San Clemente will be replaced by a visit to the Basilica of San Martino Ai Monti until further notice.
This activity is not suitable for people who suffer from claustrophobia

All customers will need to wear a FFP2 mask throughout the bus journey.
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Government-imposed COVID restrictions for entering countries and venues (e.g. booster shot, negative COVID test, vaccine certificate with a QR code) may change with little notice. It is the responsibility of all visitors to ensure they check the official
Not recommended for those who are effected by claustrophobia
Please note that the visit to the Basilica of San Clemente will be replaced by a visit to the Basilica of San Martino Ai Monti until further notice.
This activity is not suitable for people who suffer from claustrophobia

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini

Escape the noise and heat of Rome as you explore its cryptic past on the city’s longest running crypts and catacombs tour. Beat the heat with air-conditioned travel and Skip-the-Line access directly down into cool, shadowed spaces that hide layer upon layer of history.

First, you’ll visit the hallowed catacombs where, beneath their persecutors’ feet, early Christians practiced their forbidden faith. Almost 2,000 years ago, this secret network of tunnels doubled as a place of worship and burial ground. As you explore tombs carved out of solid rock, your guide – a local, expert English-speaker – will relate the fascinating history of this sacred spot.

1 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Catacombe di Santa Domitilla

Your expert historian guide will explain how this network of sacred tunnels is associated with the first Christians in ancient Rome. You’ll descend into the labyrinthian corridors carved into the soft volcanic rock and discover the frescoes, strange iconography and burial places which doubled as places of worship when the Christians were persecuted.

45 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Museum and Crypt of Capuchins

Your final destination is the Capuchin Crypt. Capuchin monks used the bones of nearly 4,000 of their brothers to decorate this somber space in intricate floor-to-ceiling designs, lending it the macabre nickname of ‘the Bone Chapel’. Your guide will tell you the theories, but it’s up to you to draw your own conclusions about the meaning of the crypt’s robed skeletons and vertebrae chandeliers.

Open your eyes to the city’s hidden side – and you’ll never see Rome the same way again.

1 hours • Admission Ticket Included

San Martino ai Monti

When you exit the catacombs, your bus will take you back within the city walls to the Basilica of San Martino ai Monti. Near the edge of the Parco del Colle Oppio, this unassuming church dates back to the 4th century - it has been rebuilt over the years, but is filled with a great sense of history just waiting to be discovered. Stunning frescoes adorn the walls, from artists such as Pietro Testa, Matteo Riccione and Giannangiolo Canini.

40 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

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