About the tour
Discover the Eternal City on this expertly guided private day trip from Naples, complete with your own dedicated driver and official local guide. Beginning with a door-to-door pickup from your Naples hotel, you’ll travel to Rome in comfort aboard a fully equipped, air-conditioned Mercedes Benz vehicle with Wi-Fi on board to start the day right.
Over 6-7 hours of guided exploration, you’ll take in Rome’s most iconic landmarks: the mighty Colosseum and the Imperial Forums, the Capitoline Hill and Michelangelo’s Piazza del Campidoglio, the awe-inspiring Pantheon, the baroque splendour of Piazza Navona, and the Vatican including the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica. Skip-the-line entry to the Colosseum and Vatican Museums is included, so you spend your time marvelling, not queuing. Time permitting, the day ends with a stop at the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps before your driver returns you to Naples, door to door.
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Rome day trip from Naples – Private Tour to see the most beautiful sites of Rome in one day from Naples
The tour will begin with your private driver collecting you from your hotel in Naples (another custom location in the area can be agreed) with a luxury sedan or minivan, and after 2.5H drive you will reach the center of Rome, the Eternal City. The itinerary includes the most important attractions of the Italian Capital: the Colosseum, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica, Navona Square, Phanteon, Trevi Funtain and the Spanish Steps.
You will meet your official local guide and start the tour from the Colosseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre. Rome’s great gladiatorial arena is the most monumental of the city’s ancient sights and Italy’s top tourist attraction. The entry will be quick and easy as we make in advance the reservations for skip the line tickets.
You’ll then walk along the “Fori Imperiali”, admiring the most important archaeological area of the city before climbing up to the Capitoline Hill with Capitoline Square designed by Michelangelo. Next stop will be the Pantheon, a striking 2000-year-old temple, now a church and one of the best preserved of Rome’s ancient monuments. You will continue your tour to Piazza Navona, that with its showy fountains and baroque buildings is central Rome’s elegant showcase square. Its grand centrepiece is Bernini’s “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”! Here you’ll have free time for lunch, before leaving with you private driver to the Vatican Museums.
Entry to the Museums will be easy as usual with our skip the line tickets. You’ll focus on the highlights of this vast collection of art before reaching the Sistine Chapel, frescoed by Michelangelo, Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli and considered by many the most famous and important masterpiece of Western Art. A direct passage will easily take you inside the magnificent Basilica of Saint Peter, where your guide will share the secrets behind the Burial of Saint Peter, Bernini’s Baldachin and Michelangelo’s Pietà. Leaving the Church, gripped by all this beauty, you’ll be welcomed in Saint Peter’s Square by stunning statues of the Apostles, Saints and Martires dominating the façade of the Basilica and Bernini’s Colonnato.
Before to leave Rome and if there will be enough time, you’ll have the chance for a quick stop to Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps.
The driver will remain at your disposal throughout the day and will drive you around when the places to see are not within walking distance. The tour inside Rome will last around 6/7 hrs. At the end of the day, your driver will take you back to your hotel in Naples or other desired location.
Please note that on Sundays and national holidays the Vatican Museums are closed and it will not be possible to visit the museums and the Sistine Chapel. On these occasions the itinerary will be modified to include St. Angel Castle.
Details
- DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION: Your hotel in Naples (a different location may be agreed)
- DEPARTURE TIME: suggested departure from 07:30am to 08:30am
- DURATION: 12 hrs
- DRESS CODE: for the Vatican visit women must have knees and shoulders covered, men must have long pants
- INCLUDED: English speaking driver, Fully equipped Mercedes Benz vehicle, WI-FI on board, Private Guide, Entrance fees and reservation to skip the line for Colosseum and Sistine Chapel
- NOT INCLUDED: Food & Drinks
- LANGUAGES: English – Italian
You can customize your Rome day trip from Naples according to your needs and preferences, our staff would be happy to inform you about different options, alternative routes and sites.
*Please note that on Sundays and national holidays the Vatican Museums are closed and it will not be possible to visit the museums and the Sistine Chapel. On these occasions the itinerary will be modified to include St. Angel Castle.
