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Pantheon and Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Guided Tour in Rome
Recommended for your Rome trip
Free Cancellation
up to 24 hours in advance
1 hour 30 minutes (Approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Keeping you safe during COVID-19
Overview
Explore Rome’s colorful religious history on this guided tour of the Pantheon and the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. See ancient tombs, artwork, and landmarks as your guide uses multimedia tools and reconstructions to bring the past to vivid life.
- Pantheon and Basilica guided tour in Rome
- Learn about ancient gods and religion
- See landmark artwork and architecture
- Led by a local guide
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Make your way to the Piazza della Minerva, where this tour begins, close to central attractions and public transport. Meet a local guide, and enter the Pantheon, a Roman temple that is among the best preserved of the city’s ancient Roman buildings. Find out how the Pantheon was dedicated to the worship of every god, and what’s known of the Pantheon’s history.
Step beneath the graceful dome, still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, and look up through the open-air oculus. See the tombs of the painter Raphael, King Victor Emmanuel II, and Queen Margherita, and hear stories about the Pantheon in ancient life.
Continue to the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a Gothic church built on the site of three pagan temples. Inside the church, you’ll find a statue by Michelangelo and sumptuous artwork: see a pair of 15th-century frescoes, an altarpiece attributed to Fra Angelico, and an altar that covers the headless body of St. Catherine of Siena.
Step beneath the graceful dome, still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, and look up through the open-air oculus. See the tombs of the painter Raphael, King Victor Emmanuel II, and Queen Margherita, and hear stories about the Pantheon in ancient life.
Continue to the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a Gothic church built on the site of three pagan temples. Inside the church, you’ll find a statue by Michelangelo and sumptuous artwork: see a pair of 15th-century frescoes, an altarpiece attributed to Fra Angelico, and an altar that covers the headless body of St. Catherine of Siena.
Itinerary
Originally pagan temple, in 608 became Christian church. In XVI century became art memorial since Raphael the painter wanted to be buried here and in XX century hosted the tombs of kings of Italy.
Step under the oculus, the eye that lights the interior of the Pantheon and warks also as a sundial
Duration: 45 minutes
Admission Ticket Included
This church hosts the tombs of 5 popes, including two member of Florence Medici family.
See also marble works of Michelangelo and Bernini as well as paintings of Pilippino Lippi .
Next to the Church you will walk by the house of the Dominicans where scientist Galileo was trialed in XVII century.
Duration: 45 minutes
Admission Ticket Included
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