Rome Underground Catacombs and Crypts | La Vacanza Travel

Rome Underground Catacombs and Crypts

Duration: 3 hours
Destination: Italy, Lazio, Rome
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  • 3 hours
  • Rome
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Discover the ancestral and underground area of Rome.
You can admire several burial chambers and various pagan burial sites.
These places were formerly used as burial grounds because it was forbidden to bury or cremate corpses in the city.
-Domitilla's catacomb, the largest and oldest underground cemetery in Rome, that dates back to the year 120 d.c.;
-Priscilla's catacombs called the "queen catacumbarum". Several cubicles, small rooms with frescoes depicting the Old and New Testaments are still visible;
-St. Callixtus' catacombs is known as the Crypt of the Popes, that includes the Crypt of St. Cecilia;
-Saint Sebastian's catacombs had hosted Saints Peter and Paul bodies.
Please note that you will visit two of the Catacombs, depending on their closures.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Catacombe San Sebastiano, Via Appia Antica 136, 00179 Rome Italy

The Catacombs of San Sebastiano are a hypogeum cemetery in Rome (Italy), rising along Via Appia Antica, in the Ardeatino Quarter. They are one of the very few Christian burial places that have always been accessible. The first of the former four floors is now almost completely destroyed.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Catacombe di Santa Domitilla, Via delle Sette Chiese 282, 00147 Rome Italy

The Catacombs of Rome (Italian: Catacombe di Roma) are ancient catacombs, underground burial places under Rome, Italy, of which there are at least forty, some discovered only in recent decades. Though most famous for Christian burials, either in separate catacombs or mixed together, people of all the Roman religions are buried in them, beginning in the 2nd century AD, mainly as a response to overcrowding and shortage of land.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Catacombs of Saint Callixtus, Via Appia Antica 110, 00179 Rome Italy

The catacombs of St. Callixtus are among the greatest and most important of Rome. They originated about the middle of the second century and are part of a cemeterial complex which occupies an area of 90 acres, with a network of galleries about 12 miles long, in four levels, more than twenty meters deep. In it were buried tens of martyrs, 16 popes and very many Christians.

Duration: 1 hour

Inclusions
  • Hotel pickup and dropoff
  • Ticket for two Catacombs
  • Entry/Admission - Catacombs of Saint Callixtus
  • Entry/Admission - Catacombe San Sebastiano
  • Entry/Admission - Catacombe di Santa Domitilla

Exclusions
  • Tip
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Infant seats available
  • Most travelers can participate
  • It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
  • Included in the tour is the visit of two of these four Catacombs, available according to the day.
  • Please provide your accommodation’s information at the time of booking (name, address)
  • The day before we'll send a mail with exact pick up time
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Departure Point

P.za della Repubblica, 48, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
Traveler pickup is offered
Pickup is included for all accommodation within Aurelian Walls. If your hotel is not in the list send us an email with your hotel /B&B/accomodation in Rome, we will let you know if the pick up is included.


Departure Time

02:00 PM


Return Details

Returns to original departure point

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

3 hours


User's Reviews

Dean_M

07 Jul, 2022

The tour company contacted us two days before by text asking to switch from July 5 to July 4. We did this and the pick up was fine but the driver did not give us any information about where we were going or how it would work once we were in the van. He spoke minimal English, which is fine but we were not sure about what we were supposed to do. We arrived at the first catacombs and he bought our tickets and sent us to the English tour guide. Then after that to the second. The tours themselves were fine but they were done by the catacombs, not the tour company(which is always appealing) but there were no lines to skip. It was basically a ride from one place to the other. Save your money and take a taxi.

susannemozel

09 Oct, 2019

Firstly, I am an owner of a Travel Agency in Calgary Alberta Canada and had the "Rome Underground Catacombs and Crypts" tour booked for Sept. 23/2019 with my mother of 82 yrs of age. This was her gift from me for her birthday.........a trip to Italy. My tour pickup was confirmed on my voucher for 2 pm pickup. My prepaid voucher included: Hotel pickup / drop off, Skip the line, entry/admission to ALL four Catacombs including 1.) Catacombe San Sebastiano 2.) Catacombe di Santa Domitilla 3.) Catacombe di Priscilla 4.) Catacombe di San Callisto. I was emailed at 03:39 as well 03:41 a.m. local time the day of my tour advising my pickup time was 2:30 pm. Well if my tour was supposed to start at 2 pm on my voucher, naturally I had my concierge at the Palazzo Naiadi, The Anthology, Autograph Collection call Romaetravel number on my voucher on my behalf questioning how my pickup could be after my start tour time? I was advised by Romaetravel that my pickup was 2:30 pm. NO options provided, I accepted what was advised. Their driver did not show up at the NEW advised time. I had my hotel concierge call again, and she was told the driver was running late and he was on his way. The driver finally showed up at 2:50 p.m., very late! Another couple in the vehicle in which he obviously picked up prior to. We arrived at the first Catacombe San Sebastiano at 3:15 pm. Again late! Dropped off at the front entrance with NO instructions/directions on where to go and with whom and provided an entrance ticket only, my mother of 82 yrs. and myself randomly entered into darkness not knowing where to go, found a group of 24 people already into a tour. We asked if we could join and the gentleman said of course we were welcomed. After, this Catacombe, the driver proceeded to the next Catacombe..............drove right past the next two on our the list?!? I questioned why he was not stopping and was advised they closed at 4 pm and we were not seeing the next two on the list as it was too late! I told him it was on my voucher and had we'd been picked up at 1:30 for 2 pm instead of 2:50 pm, we would have had the time and seen what was paid for! He said he was only the driver and didn't know anything. Well now we went straight to the last Catacombe di San Callisto and arrived at 4:30 pm, again late! And this one closed at 5 pm. I had the driver screenshot my voucher and send it to Romaetravel and demanded the services I had prepaid for! I had the driver also call them while we were on the tour and also spoke with Patricia of Romaetravel on the drivers phone demanding I get the services paid for. I was told no and that if I looked on trip advisor I would see the two Catacombe's were not included? I told her I didn't book on trip advisor for starters and secondly I had a prepaid voucher clearly confirming WHAT WAS INCLUDED!!! I am now fighting as a travel agent and owner to now get my money back as I refuse to pay for a product/service that WAS NOT PROVIDED with ROMAETRAVEL!!! I will make sure this travel company is exposed for the lying cheating company they actually are in hopes NO other person has the experience I as well my mother experienced first hand. DO NOT BOOK ANYTHING WITH ROMAETRAVEL!!!

Tim S

14 May, 2019

We appreciated being picked up and driven out to the catacombs we toured. The first tour through San Callisto was.fascinating and well narrated. The walking is not always easy, and one woman in our group struggled valiantly to the end. Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide tended not to wait for the group to reassemble before starting his next narration, and that was a bit frustrating. We don’t know what we missed. Perhaps you can incorporate the tour technology we experienced today in the Vatican where our guide spoke into a headset, and we could hear her wherever we were.

260benedicte

25 Jun, 2023

Fraîcheur et recueillement dans les catacombes des Priscille, itinéraire qui donne à imaginer la vie souterraine des premiers chrétiens et qui montre l’importance en superficie des catacombes de la ville. Non loin, les mosaïques du mausolée de Constance et l’église Sainte Agnès. A voir !

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