Avoid the crowds and head straight inside the Colosseum with a skip-the-line entrance ticket for the start of this full-day tour of Rome, with an inclusive lunch in a city center restaurant. Meet your guide at the Colosseum for a comprehensive tour of Ancient Rome’s major sights. With your fast track access to the Colosseum, follow in the footsteps of Roman emperors and gladiators, admire the Arch of Constantine, and stomp the legendary Via Sacra. After an inclusive lunch, take off for an afternoon tour of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. For convenience, transfers from the Colosseum to the restaurant, and on to the Vatican are included, as is skip-the-line entrance to the Vatican Museums. Upon arrival, your guide will lead you through the galleries of the most important art collection in the world. Gaze at Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam” ceiling fresco, see “The Last Judgement” on the chapel’s back wall, and absorb the sacred ambiance of the pope’s private chapel. Learn about the other Sistine Chapel painters, including Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. You will also get a free entrance ticket to the Catacombs of San Callisto, discovered by the Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista in 1854. He called them “The Little Vatican - The Central Monument of all Christian Cemeteries,” and with your complimentary entrance ticket, you will soon see why!