Fast access entrance to the Colosseum with Arena Floor, enter the iconic monument of Rome through the Gladiator’s Gate and enjoy a wonderful time inside the iconic monument with our passionate guide!
Our tour lasts 1 hour inside the Colosseum where you will enjoy a fantastic explanation on ancient Rome as well as roman games. Our storytelling guides will teach you many stories that made the roman history one of the most unique in the world. In the times of the roman Empire, the Gladiators were professional fighters and many of them real celebrities who were winning not only money but special concessions and they were able to get their freedom back. Ancient Roman women and empresses had many love affairs with the famous Gladiators and it will be definitely fun to discover some of the anecdotes thanks our enthusiastic guide. You will tour in small group of about 18 participants but the maximum can be 30 visitors.
The Colosseum, also known as “Flavian Amphitheater”, was built with the purpose of housing the Gladiators games to entertain the Emperors and the public who were spent the whole day inside the Colosseum. Games were divided in “Venationes” where the Bestiarii, Gladiators, were fighting to death against beasts imported from the empire. In the afternoon, there were the “Munera” games where gladiators were fighting against other gladiators. The Colosseum also had the dungeons area that is today perfectly visible from the Arena Floor. The dungeons were tunnels to store the animals during the show; animals were kept in those huge cages that were lifted up to the arena stage, through trap doors.
Today, you will enter the Colosseum through the Gladiator’s Gate, also known as the Gate of the Deaths or the “Libitina” Gate. From here, slaves carried the death bodies of the gladiators out of the Colosseum. The slaves were often wearing a mask recalling Charon the ferryman of Hades. Have your camera ready and discover with our expert English speaking guide the Colosseum the iconic symbol of Rome and of the Roman Empire! History can be truly touching and there will be a lot of learning having fun!
