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Tips for visitors to Rome

Are you planning a visit to Rome? We have put together some tips for you that might help.

First of all, here's something very practical: there is an excellent app for Roman city transport that shows you, for example, how many minutes you still have to wait for your bus.

Cultural Events & Academic Rome Tours

The cultural calendar (exhibitions, guided tours etc.) of the city of Rome can be found here.

The Bibliotheca Hertziana  and the German Historical Institute offer selected guided tours in German for a wider public.

The Roman Institute of the Görres Society offers public lectures and a sommer festival every year.

Necropolis of Santa Rosa, Tomb of St. Peter, Catacombs, Vatican Museums

We often receive requests for guided tours of the "new" necropolis of Santa Rosa within the Vatican, the "Scavi" under St. Peter's or even the catacombs.

 

  1. Santa Rosa or Necropolis on the Via Triumphalis.
    This is a recently uncovered necropolis that is definitely worth seeing. A visit is only possible via the Vatican Museums. A visit is only possible after online registration via the Vatican Museums. Click on the category Visite guidate gruppi/singoli on this page. 
  2. Scavi di San Pietro.
    This refers to the accessible excavations at the tomb of St. Peter below the grottos of St. Peter. In this case, too, written registration by e-mail is required. Here are the details.
  3. Catakombs
    Anyone can organise their own visit to a public catacomb. Visits to non-public catacombs are not permitted unless they are strictly scientific. The Commissione di Archeologia Sacra is responsible for visits to non-public catacombs and you must apply to them. 
  4. The Vatican Museums have an excellent website. There you will also find information about bus tours of the Vatican Gardens and much more. Strongly discouraged are street vendors offering overpriced "skip the line" tickets. The Vatican itself sells such tickets at considerably cheaper rates where the Vatican Post Office is (St Peter's Square, left side, by the toilets and bookshop), or online.
  5. For more information on St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Tomb, the Wednesday Audiences, the Vatican Museums and Vatican Gardens click here.
  6. For excellent concerts of sacred music in Rome You should contact the Foundation of Sacred Music and Art.

Professional Rome guides: history, art history, classical and christian archaeology

There are a number of excellent German-speaking Rome guides around RIGG and the Archconfraternity of Campo Santo who can be contacted for individual or group tours:

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