After-Hours Catacombs and Bone Chapel Small-Group Tour

After-Hours Catacombs and Bone Chapel Small-Group Tour

This world-first walking tour takes you into the Catacombs, introducing you to one of Rome’s most important cities of the dead. You’ll also get to see the chilling Capuchin ‘Bone’ Chapel, decorated with the remains of some 4,000 deceased monks. Not a tour for the easily spooked, but a wonderful exploration of early Christianity in Rome and Ancient Roman beliefs surrounding death and the afterlife that informs as much as it thrills.

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

Your tour starts in the Capuchin Crypt, better known as the “Bone Chapel”, because it is festooned with the mortal remains of some 4,000 deceased monks. As you take it all in with your small group of 18 people or less, your expert guide will explain the monks’ interesting beliefs on life and death which have motivated the creation of such a macabre memorial.

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Afterwards, you’ll hop on a private, air-conditioned minibus and head to the Catacombs of San Sebastiano. The bodies might be gone, but that doesn’t mean you won’t feel a thrill of excitement as you become one of the first people to descend into the Catacombs after closing since the era of Imperial Rome. Because you’ll be there after closing time, you’ll have the gloomy passageways to yourself and you won’t have any trouble hearing your guide as they tell you the dark stories of the birth of Christianity.


Duration: 50 minutes