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Colosseum and Roman Forum

Colosseum and Roman Forum

Rome · Italy

9 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through the Roman Forum and the archaeological landscape around the Colosseum, where temples, roads, arches, and monumental ruins reveal the scale of ancient Rome. You will trace the Via Sacra, look across Palatine Hill, and see the Colosseum alongside the Arch of Constantine. The route also connects these central monuments with places that extend the story of imperial power and its surviving legacy.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 9. The rest are in the app.

  1. Roman Forum

    Roman Forum

    Rome’s former marketplace became the stage for elections, trials, triumphs and imperial power.

  2. Parco archeologico del Colosseo

    Parco archeologico del Colosseo

    A museum in Rome, Italy.

  3. Palatine Hill

    Palatine Hill

    Rome’s first hill became the private mountain of its emperors.

  4. 3 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Via Sacra

    Via Sacra

    No description yet.

  6. Arch of Constantine

    Arch of Constantine

    No description yet.

  7. Colosseum

    Colosseum

    No description yet.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 3 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

3 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 9 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.