Golden House of Nero (Domus Aurea) Tours and Activities

The Domus Aurea was part of the project that Nero had devised to convert and transform Rome into a new city "Necropolis" following the Hellenistic model in the manner of Alexandria, this is, a city with an orthogonal plane with squares and wide rectilinear streets. With this same ideology, 60 years later, Emperor Hadrian built the gigantic Villa Tiburtina 30 km from Rome. The cave was covered with painted figures. Soon the word spread and the young Roman artists lowered themselves down inside the cave to admire the beautiful ancient frescoes. Today the frescoes are faded but were studied during the Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael. Raphael even took inspiration from the frescoes of the Domus Aurea for the making of the Vatican Loggia. Thanks to the discovery of these paintings, the artistic term "grotesque" was created. The construction of the Domus Aurea also known as the Golden House has been considered the most extravagant construction in the history of Rome.

Visit the Golden House of Nero (Domus Aurea) with a prebooked ticket for a virtual reality tour. With a special VR headset, the Roman history of the site comes to life and you’ll experience the palace in its glory days. Listen to video commentary to get the lowdown on the lavish life of the Emperor Nero, and see the “Raphael and the Domus Aurea” exhibition — a gallery dedicated to the rediscovery of ancient paintings.

Cover thousands of years of Roman history in a single, attraction-packed bus ride during this narrated hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Choose between one, two, and three-day options, and enjoy unlimited tours during whatever timeframe you select. Listen to enriching audio commentary available in five languages as you cruise between stops.

Discover the Golden House of emperor Nero at the Oppian Hill with a skip-the-line guided tour of the ancient archeological site.Use our exclusive VR glasses to witness the lost glory of the Domus Aurea with a virtual reality experience.Many famous monuments including the Colosseum and the Baths of Trajan were built over places that were once within the Domus complex.Explore the entirety of the complex including the Oppio Hill and Colosseum valley with vivid commentary from your guide to gain more insight into the history of this archeological complex. •Visit Nero’s luxury palace and see what it looked like in its prime with our VR guided tour •Explore the Nymphaeum,the Golden Vault Room,and the Octagonal Room with priority access to the Domus Aurea •Take a delightful walk through Oppio Hill and the Colosseum Valley while listening to elucidated details about the sites from your guide •A semi-Private tour of 12 participants max will ensure a more refined and personalized experience

Thanks to new technology and immersive virtual reality with video narration you will visit Nero's Golden house's (the Domus Aurea) archeological restoration.These new technologies will be combined with the guided tour of the Domus Aurea’s site. Nero's Golden House (Domus Aurea) virtual reality tour provides, with oculus rift, visual insights into how Emperor Nero's golden palace looked 2,000 years ago. The final result will be a true time travel , a sort of cognitive and emotional short circuit, something really innovative in the new technologies applied to the cultural heritage. From 24th March 2021 to 7th January 2022 the ticket for the exhibition "Raffaello and the Domus Aurea" will be included.

The Domus Aurea (or Nero’s “Golden House”) is one of Rome’s most impressive archaeological sites, but its ruins can be difficult to interpret. This tour combines the insights of a guide with a virtual reality experience to bring the remains of the Roman emperor’s opulent palace to life. Enjoy video narration and other multimedia enhancements to understand how the site appeared 2,000 years ago and learn more about its history and architecture.

Real Tour vs Virtual Tour? We know, live experiences are always great but... usually a real guided tour of the Colosseum in Rome lasts 1 hour. During the tour you waste time: -waiting in line to enter the monument -at the security check -for a toilet break -for pictures time -walking time from a section to another You clearly spend most of your time in the Colosseum doing other things than understanding the Colosseum! Following our online Virtual tour: - you can have a 75 minutes full-immersion into the history of Rome, the Colosseum, the gladiators fights - your guide talks live! - you skip all the annoying waste of time of a real group tour - you can ask questions to the guide during the tour - you can understand the Colosseum from a 360° perspective, ready to get there for real as soon as you'll be able to travel to Italy - the guide can integrate his talk with hundreds of digital reconstructions, satellite views, photos of details that are impossible to use during a real tour

Explore Rome’s ancient sites on a half-day, small-group tour of Domus Aurea, or Nero’s ‘Golden House,’ the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum. Step into buried history with archeologist guides and use 3D glasses to see Nero’s palace as it once was, then hear stories about Rome's golden age as you walk through the heart of the ancient Roman Republic and Empire. This small-group tour includes all entrance fees and skip-the-line access.

The exhibition titled “Raphael and the invention of the grotesque” is a good chance to visit a small part of the immense Domus Aurea - the house of the famous emperor Nero - recently restored and reopened to the public. During an immersive exhibition, made with visual projections, you will discover what was Rome and what happened just before the construction of Colisseum. At the same time, you will learn about the Renaissance, when the forgotten roman paintings of the Domus Aurea, hidden underground for centuries, were suddenly rediscovered and copied by the best painters.

At your service, the driver will wait you at the airport and bring you to your destination in Rome. Choose when you want to start your self-guided private-tour. The chauffeur can show you the most attractive places of the city at your arrival or when you prefer during your holidays in Rome. The service is available from 1 up to 8 passengers. No stress, no waste of time searching or waiting the taxi at the airport, know in advance how much you are going to spend. A professional driver (not a guide) will wait you at the airport to bring you wherever you want in Rome and than you will admire the city with a 3 hour private tour.

Colosseum represents the glory of the Roman Empire. The gladiators' discipline was very strict and it had a lot to do with sex restrictions and conduct. Emperors could decide of their lives and had complete supremacy on their freedom. The Palatine is also part of this tour.

You will start the tour in St. Peter’s square, where you will enter St Peter's Basilica, the church par excellence! Inside the great basilica the guide will let you discover the famous statue of Pietà by Michelangelo, Bernini's baldachin, the tomb of St. Peter, the tomb of Pope John Paul II and Christina of Sweden’s funeral monument. After that, the driver will pick-you up and you will be visiting the roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; here you will be stunned by the gorgeous mosaics of the Middle Ages and sacred relics. Always with the driver, you will then continue with the visit of the Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, here the guide will lead you to the discovery of a piece of the Cross of Christ and a spine of the Christ's crown. You will then venture underground. You will finally walk to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, the most important cathedral of Rome. Here you will find the relics of Saints Peter and Paul, the ancient Cloister, and the Sancta Sanctorum.

5 km southwest from the city center, this 3-hour bike tour takes you back in the time of Ancient Rome. The road is one of the most famous and oldest sites, called "Regina Viarum" - The Queen of Roads, named after Claudius Appius Caecus who built it in 312 BC. Made of cobblestones and specifically built to transport supplies and soldiers to strategic points trough the empire. Much of the original way has been preserved to this day. It was also a huge burial site lined with tombs due to law that forbade burying the dead within the sacred belt of the city. We'll admire sites such as the Tomb of Scipio Family, the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, cross trough a park and enjoy the view on the Nympheum of Egeria and see the cenotaph of Annia Regilla, a second century Roman Lady whose assassination is still obscure. This tour brings back to the very origin of Rome where you will experience intensively the slow flow of the time that devours everything. A fresh bottle of water will be given to you!