Small-Group Tour Crypts the Bone Chapel and Catacombs

Itinerary
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Pass By: Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, 00187 Rome Italy

Triton Fountain

Pass By: Piazza Barberini, Junction of Via del Tritone Via Veneto, Via Quattro Fontane, Via Barberini, Rome Italy

Piazza Barberini

Stop At: Museum and Crypt of Capuchins, Via Vittorio Veneto 27, 00187 Rome Italy

The tour starts in one of the city’s most interesting catacombs. The catacomb contains miles of creepy tunnels and the world’s oldest collection of bones. Your expert, guide, hand-picked for knowledge of the catacombs, will lead your small group of 18 people or fewer through these wonderfully historic and atmospheric tunnels, while telling you the story of early Christianity. Large groups simply can’t fit into these areas, so take advantage of this truly unique access.


Duration: 40 minutes

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

Next, you’ll head to one of the most singular and spine-tingling sights in Rome, the Capuchin bone crypt. The cemetery festooned with the bones and remains of some 4,000 Capuchin friars is a jaw-dropping display of life and death. Although it might appear macabre, you’ll learn why the monks actually consider the display life-affirming.


Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Case Romane del Celio, Clivo di Scauro adiacente piazza Santi Giovanni e Paolo, 00184 Rome Italy

This tour ends by taking you down into the Case Romane to gape at the extraordinary frescoes that adorn the walls and see the relics of Roman life that were unearthed in these very rooms. With an expert guide to help you decipher everything you see, you’ll feel as if you have stepped back 2,000 years into the height of one of the greatest empires the world has ever known.


Duration: 40 minutes