Colosseum Underground Private Tour with Palatine Hill & Forum

I honestly felt privileged to take this tour with professional archaeologist, Elisa. She spoke from both deep background knowledge and personal experience. I will always remember standing at the exact spot in which she personally found and helped excavate specific items. Every question we asked, she answered with a seemingly limitless deeper well of knowledge.

It was the most unbelievable adventure and experience that we’ve had ! Looking forward to more of this in our lives !! Thank you

We thoroughly enjoyed this tour with Elisa. As an archeologist herself, she was able to impart so much interesting history to us and information about Roman lifestyle. I highly recommend a tour with Elisa if you can!

We had a wonderful time with Elisa, who toured us around the colosseum, its underground, and the Roman forum! We started in the colosseum and went into the underground (which is not actually underground for the most part, the floor of the colosseum/roof of the underground is gone). Elisa was incredibly knowledgeable and had a lot in inside information due to her doctorate and extensive time doing archeology inside the forum. Highly recommend this tour to get the whole picture on the colosseum!

Loved the tour! Was amazing and informative, Elisa was very knowledgeable and answered our questions excellently. She has a deep love for the subject and we definitely could tell from her sharing — from the history of the Roman Forum and Colosseum to the excavation methods used to uncover these ruins! She also wasn’t too rushed and gave us ample time to take photos — she even helped to take a few for us! I would highly recommend her for anyone looking for an informative yet easy-to-digest tour.

Andrea was an amazing guide full of information! He whisked us past crowds and lines and made sure we saw everything there was to see. I’d been to Colosseum before and still learned so much. We also got to see some newly opened areas on the Roman Forum and spent some time on ground level as well. Took lots of pics of us at the best spots which was great - no need for selfies. Very enjoyable morning.

Amazing tour with Elisa. Well worth it, especially if you love history and/or archeology. Elisa is highly educated, knowledgable, as well as engrossing, entertaining and an absolute joy to learn from and be led by. We were able to go deep into the colosseum, into places very few will ever see. We were also able to make adjustments as we went along, based on what we were most interested in seeing and learning about. It was great passing by the masses of tourists and heading into spaces that had no crowds, seeing things few get to see. I am so happy we did this tour. You will be too!

The Underground addition to the colosseum is wonderful! Luca Romano is awesome! He is so knowledgeable and listens to your interests and needs. We thoroughly enjoyed the entire tour. He even gave us suggestions for eating.

Our guide, Elisa made this tour so memorable. Tour maybe expensive but having an archeologist with first hand research experience was worth the extra. Seeing the Colosseum from underground, the tunnel thru which the gladiators enter the area, the areas and wooden cage and pulley system to bring animals into arena made such a visual impression. In addition, the history of Ancient Rome on Palatine Hill and Roman Forum is overwhelming to read but having an expert provide a live storytelling manner was meaningful.

Our tour with Andrea was amazing. Andrea was very informative, friendly, fun’ and we would recommend him for any and all tours.