Step back in time as your expert guide brings to life the most important temples and shrines of the Roman Forum and leads you through the Colosseum in the footsteps of Gladiators of Rome who killed, survived or died to satisfy the masses! Enjoy fast track entry to the vast arena, the Icon of Rome once able to seat up to 50,000 spectators. Once inside, your guide will paint an accurate picture of the Gladiator games that took place in the Roman Empire’s most impressive arena, helping you to decipher between fact, fiction, and the images portrayed by big-screen Hollywood blockbusters.After walking around the perimeter of the Colosseum, gaze down onto the arena floor and beneath to the maze-like underground level where man and beast awaited their moment of glory or met their fateful death. Follow your guide outside the arena and travel even further back in time as you enter the Roman Forum, the true heart of Ancient Rome with monuments dating as far back as the 7th century BC.