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Rome: Guided Catacombs Tour & Capuchin Crypt (Audio Guide)

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Embark on a fascinating underground tour of Domitilla or Callisto Catacombs, taking you into the unusual history of Rome. Enjoy a dedicated transfer to the famous Capuchin Crypt where you can explore with an audio guide.

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  • Skip the line
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  • Audio guide
    English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (depends on selected option)
  • Live guiding
    English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (depends on selected option)
  • Duration
    3 hours
  • Includes
    • Assistance at the Touristation Aracoeli office
    • Reserved entrance for Domitilla Catacombs (except on Tuesday)
    • Reserved entrance for Callisto Catacombs (only on Tuesday)
    • Catacombs Guided tour (Italian, English, French, Spanish, and German)
    • Capuchin Crypt only entrance ticket with audio guide
    • Transfer to the Catacombs from Touristation Aracoeli - Piazza d'Ara Coeli, 16
    • Transfer to the Capuchin Crypt from Touristation Aracoeli - Piazza d'Ara Coeli, 16
    • Pick up service from and to the hotel
    • Guided tour for Capuchin Crypt
    • Food and Drinks
Highlights & Description

Highlights

  • Be transported back to ancient times as you take a tour of the Catacombs in Rome
  • Benefit from the transfer by open bus through a panoramic route
  • Visit the extensive tunnels which were once a burial ground and place of worship
  • Hear the fascinating history and stories of these sacred places from your guide
  • Visit the fascinating Capuchin Museum and his crypt

Description

Get ready to have your assumptions about Rome turned upside down on this incredibly unique journey of discovery. The itinerary includes some of the most uncommon, mysterious and outlandish sites the Eternal City has to offer.

Start your experience at Touristation office in Piazza d'Ara Coeli 16 and take the Panoramic Bus to reach the Catacombs. Embark on a fascinating underground tour of the Catacombs, taking you into the unusual history of Rome. Learn about how dating almost 2,000 years to the 2nd century AD, this extensive network of underground tunnels was once a burial ground and a place of worship for the first Christians in Rome.

After the guided tour at the Catacombs, the dedicated transfer will bring you to the famous Capuchin Crypt in Via Veneto. Visit on your own with the audioguide. The Crypt is inside a museum attached to the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Concezione, close to Piazza Barberini.

Explore the museum collects and exhibits about some significant aspects of the Capuchin friars in general. Learn about the simple lifestyle, closeness to the poor and spirit of fraternity that characterize the religious order, whose history is recounted from its origins in the 16th century to the present day.

The Crypt is a singular work of art with a macabre all-Baroque taste, lending it the macabre nickname of "the Bone Chapel". Walk in the long corridor with five chapels, decorated on the vaults and walls with the mortal remains of nearly 4,000 friars dating from between the 16th and the 19th centuries, composed in such a way as to form rosettes, pilasters, stars, hourglasses, clocks and butterflies, chandeliers and crosses.

Admire on the walls piled thousands of shinbones, femurs and skulls turned into building materials to create niches and architectural structures that house skeletons dressed in the habit of some of the friars. Each chapel bears the name of the bones with which the decorations were made and contains, according to tradition, holy earth transported here from Palestine or Jerusalem.

Good to know before you go
  • Catacombs tour is not recommended for travelers who may get claustrophobic due to the small spaces. The tour is not accessible for visitors on wheelchairs or with severe motor disabilities.
  • Dress code is required: shoulders and knees has to be covered.
  • Visitors with specific disabilities may be entitled to a free ticket after speaking directly to the ticket office of Catacombs.
  • Catacombs and Cappuccini Cripts are in different locations: transfer is included.
  • This reservation includes the entrance to 2 venues: Catacombs and Capuchin Crypt. The transfer from Catacombs to Capuchin Crypt is included in your reservation and the last part of your experience is the visit of the Capuchin Crypt with audioguide at your peace.
  • Please note:
  • Until January 14: The experience includes the Catacombs of San Callisto
  • From January 15 to January 21: The experience includes the Catacombs of San Sebastiano
  • From January 22: The experience includes the Catacombs of Domitilla
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1. What is the cancellation policy for this activity?
Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund.
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  • Children
    6-15 years
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