76 - Colosseum Virtual Reality Tour

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• Enjoy visiting the Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill on this semi-private tour

• See Rome as it was 2000 years ago with exclusive LivTours Virtual Reality glasses

• Revel in LivTours exclusive skip-the-line access into the iconic Colosseum

• Hear about the epic battles and stories that have shaped the Eternal City

• Take advantage of the LivTours app which includes VR reconstructions of Rome

*Starting June 1, ALL participants are required to bring a valid form of id (passport, driver’s license, government id) in order to enter restricted areas of the Colosseum. Photocopies are acceptable.

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LivTours’ Colosseum VR Tour is the perfect tour to explore ancient Rome! You will visit the Colosseum, Palatine Hill & Roman Forum with an expert tour guide in a semi-private group with a maximum of six people. Using virtual reality glasses, you will get a real taste for what Rome looked like in its heyday. LivTours’ VR glasses allow you to see reconstructions of the surrounding architecture allowing you to picture what Rome looked like some 2,000 years ago. Walk in the footsteps of the ancient Romans and learn the incredible history of the once-great and ever revered Roman Empire.

LIVTOURS VR GLASSES

One pair of LivTours original VR cardboard glasses will be distributed and gifted to every two people on tour. We leave it up to you to use them when you want while on tour. Travelers are advised to use them at their own discretion keeping in mind safety concerns within the archaeological sites. In order to use the glasses, you must download the LivTours app (via Apple or Android store) prior to the tour and bring the smartphone with the app on it on the day of the tour.

Please note: VR cardboard glasses by no means replace your tour guides efforts and descriptions and serve only as an enhancement to the tour. They are in no way, shape or form a video game, but instead offer 360-degree visual reconstructions of the architectural wonders that surround you.

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Your LivTours’ Colosseum VR Tour begins at the iconic Colosseum. You and your semi-private group will enjoy priority access into the Colosseum enabling you to skip the very long lines and make the most of your day! After an introduction to the history of this ancient venue, you will be gifted with cardboard VR glasses. Simply slip your phone in the case and enjoy LivTours exclusive 360-degree virtual reality reconstructions of the Colosseum and the surrounding hills. Your expert guide will help you get a closer look at this feat of architectural engineering, as well as, paint a vivid picture of the blood and carnage of the countless gladiatorial fights that took place within this amazing arena.

Climb to the second ring and enjoy the view from Caesar’s balcony, hear amazing stories and anecdotes and just as you are trying to picture it all in your mind, slip your phone into your glasses again and enjoy it from the perspective of the past!

THE PALATINE HILL AND THE ROMAN FORUM

After concluding your visit to the Colosseum, your semi-private group tour will move on to another magnificent archaeological site – the nearby Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. Learn about the origins of Rome and the strategy that helped this ancient power grow. Climbing to the very top of this beautiful archeological park you will be able to admire one of the most stunning views to Circus Maximus. Currently you will only see a lovely grass field, but slip your glasses on once again and you will be able to see what it looked like when Emperor Nero held chariot races. While listening to your guides' stories about ancient Rome, you will gain a new appreciation for just how advanced they were and how epci this panoramic view must have been at the time.

Next it is on to visit the political and commercial center of ancient Rome – the Roman Forum. The sheer size of the excavation site and the remarkably intact ruins of ancient temples, basilicas, government buildings, and entertainment centers will stimulate your imagination of Roman life of the ancient past. Your guide will delight you with stories of emperors and the over-the-top lifestyles of ancient Rome’s rich and famous. One of the greatest wonders of Rome, this open air archeological site is brought to life on this guided semi-private tour.

Imagine the heated discussions of toga-clad Roman senators in the Curia, view the altar where Julius Caesar was cremated and allow your expert guide to paint a picture of the colorful victory parades of Roman soldiers as they passed through the magnificent arches after conquests. Stop one last time on the Via Sacra, right in between the Arch of Septimius Severus, the Rostra, the Basilicas and the Temple of Julius….put your glasses on again and here it all is, just as it looked 2000 years ago perfectly reconstructed for you. Just amazing!

Are you looking for a tour that includes the Colosseum Underground? Check out our Colosseum Underground & Ancient City Small Group tour here.

PLEASE NOTE: * The above itinerary is an example, the order of the sites might change depending on the scheduled slot.

*Guests with wheelchair accessibility needs will find difficulty with this semi-private tour. In order to ensure a tour with alternative routes, please inquire with our customer support team and we will find you a barrier-free tour.

ABOUT OUR 6 PEOPLE SEMI-PRIVATE GROUP POLICY

When you book a LivTours Semi-private Tour, you are guaranteed one tour guide per group of 6 people. Please bear in mind though that in order to accommodate traveling families and friends, we do on rare occasion make the exception of adding an additional one to two guests in order not to split groups who are traveling together. On that same note, you may find yourself on tour with less than six people. As we accept bookings in multiples of six, math doesn’t always work in our favor to help accommodate individual travelers and their families when on the same tour, so we hope you understand and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.