Accessible Rome Private Tours
We’ll take you to Rome’s most iconic sights – whatever your access needs
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Rome is the world’s most beautiful city; an enduring treasure made for everyone to behold. Which is why we launched this Accessible Rome Private Tour – we want to take you to the heart of the action, no matter your access needs. Rome in a wheelchair is easy on this private tour. Whether you want to visit the Colosseum, Vatican City, or both – the choice is yours, whatever access requirement.
How Our Accessible Rome Tour Works
Our Rome tours for disabled clients aim to make a visit to Rome’s most iconic sights a breeze, for those with access needs. Each itinerary can be customized depending on the requirements of you, as an individual, someone in your family, or a friend.
You’ll join an expert, private guide on a journey to discover the amazing history of Rome. Whether you want to visit the Colosseum, to hear about the brutal gladiator’s games, or admire the beautiful Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, it’s up to you.
Your guide will meet you at your hotel in a private car, adapted for those with diverse access needs. Then, you’ll journey toward Rome’s ancient city or the Vatican – the choice is yours.
When you’ve reached your destination. You’ll enjoy a full tour of one of Rome’s most stunning historic sights, adapted to be fully accessible for our clients with disabilities. Seeing the best of Rome in a wheelchair has never been easier.
We’ve provided a text box on this page for you to describe your specific requirements, so we can offer the best service possible on this Rome tour for disabled clients.
Please send us an email to describe what kind of tour you are interested in, when, how many people are in your groups and the kind of needs you have. We will reply in one business day. Thank you!
The Vatican Experience: Accessible Vatican Private Tour
Your Vatican: Accessible Rome Private Tour begins in your hotel (within Rome), where you’ll meet your private guide – an expert in all things art history. They’ll accompany you in a private car, specifically adapted for those with access needs, on the drive to Vatican City. Please note that any itinerary can be modified on request, depending on your access requirements and particular interests!
Vatican Museums
When you enter the Vatican Museums, the real adventure begins! Your expert guide will lead you through the labyrinthine museums toward the highlights, including amazing examples of classical statuary and High Renaissance frescoes.
See wonderful works by ancient artists – including the Belvedere Group – and Renaissance oddities like the Gallery of Maps before you experience the splendor of the Raphael Rooms. Admire the marvelous School of Athens before enter the astonishing Sistine Chapel.
Sistine Chapel
After using an elevator and a wheelchair lift, you’ll go down a ramp with the most famous ceiling in the world above you. If you are visiting Rome in a wheelchair, you’ll first go down in an elevator and then a wheelchair lift to access the Sistine Chapel. Following that, you’ll glide toward the world’s most famous ceiling on a wheelchair ramp. If you have differing access needs, the itinerary of this Rome tour for disabled clientele can easily be modified.
You’ll experience all the beauty of Michelangelo’s marvelous frescoes – all 12,000ft of them – and learn the tumultuous history of this remarkable Chapel. See his wonderful Old Testament scenes, including the fiery Last Judgment – which are even more impressive in real life.
St. Peter’s Basilica
Following the Vatican Museums, you’ll head to St. Peter’s Basilica. If you have requested a wheelchair from the Vatican Museums, you will have to return it before entering the Basilica, as the two sights are managed separately.
You’ll journey around the walls of Vatican Museums before heading to the Basilica. There, you’ll enjoy skip-the-line access to the world’s most famous church. For those who are visiting Rome in a wheelchair, you’ll head up the ramp into this Holy site.
When you’re inside St. Peter’s Basilica, your private guide will explain the remarkable history of this unique building. Perhaps no other structure in the world had such a genius set of architects working on it: Bramante, Bernini, Michelangelo and Raphael all contributed to the project.
Discover the history of remarkable sculptors like Bernini’s Baldachin and Michelangelo’s La Pieta, in the incomparable atmosphere of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The Colosseum Experience: Accessible Rome Private Tour
Enjoy seamless access to Rome’s Ancient City when you choose this Accessible Rome private tour. Discover the remarkable and dramatic history of the Ancient Roman world with your private guide, who’ll lead you through these ancient sites to the heart of their treasures.
Highlights:
- Colosseum
- Roman Forum
Includes:
- Hotel pick-up and return in an accessible vehicle
- Skip-the-line admission
- Optimized itinerary for clientele with disabilities
This Accessible Rome tour makes visiting the Colosseum and Roman Forum easy. You’ll follow your expert guide on a comfortable route, as you discover the dramatic – and violent – history of the heart of Ancient Rome’s Empire.
Please send us an email to describe what kind of tour you are interested in, when, how many people are in your groups and the kind of needs you have. We will reply in one business day. Thank you!
Roman Forum
Your first stop on this customized tour, for those who are visiting Rome in a wheelchair, is the Roman Forum. You’ll descend to the Roman Forum – which is below street-level – via an elevator, and then make your way to the Forum’s highlights across the accessible paths.
Once the beating heart of the Ancient Roman Empire, the Forum was where many of the most important events in the city’s history took place: including the assassination of Julius Ceasar. With you expert, local guide, you’ll discover all the secret histories, hidden in the memory of these mysterious and evocative ruins.
Although the Roman Forum can be difficult to navigate for those with physical disabilities, the itinerary will be modified in order to make this visit to the Roman Forum as easy as possible.
Colosseum
Visit the world’s most famous amphitheater and discover its remarkable history, on this Rome tour for disabled clientele. With you expert, private guide, you’ll ascend to the first and second-floors of the Colosseum via a wheelchair accessible elevator.
Breeze through the step-free entrance and into the world’s most famous amphitheater. See the impressive stadium, where 80,000 spectators would have clamored for blood in the violent gladiator’s battles. Admire the marvelous arena floor and discover the true stories of men and beasts who died here, during the bloody gladiator’s games.
You’ll enjoy the full, undivided attention of your expert guide, as they lead you through the Colosseum’s most accessible routes. Smooth floring, step-free access and elevators make a tour of the Colosseum a breeze. So, relax and discover the surprising history of this iconic Ancient Roman ruin.
Why Join This Accessible Rome Private Tour?
Whatever your requirements, whether you are visiting Rome in a wheelchair or have other access needs, our Accessible Rome Private Tours are perfect for you. We will happily customize any itinerary so you have a comfortable experience of Rome’s most iconic sights.
You’ll be accompanied by a guide who knows everything there is to know about Rome. The Eternal City is at your fingertips, on this Rome tour for disabled clientele.
