Rome’s Christian Sites Semi-Private Tour

Rome, Italy

4 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Explore the sacred Christian sites of Rome with a small-group tour, including the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, and more. Skip the hassle of finding all these sights on your own and hear fun facts and stories about Rome’s early Christian history as you travel from site to site with a guide.

Explore the Papal Basilicas with a tour of Rome’s top Christian sites
Skip the challenge of navigating Rome’s city streets on your own
Visit the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and more
Small group up to 14 people ensures a personal experience

What's Included

Local Guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off (if within Aurelian Walls)

Gratuities
Food & Drinks

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

Pickup is included for all accommodation within Aurelian Walls. If your hotel is not in the list send us an email with your hotel /B&B/accomodation in Rome, we will let you know if the pick up is included.

Meeting point

P.za della Repubblica, 48, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
Meeting point is in front of Palazzo Naiadi hotel.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Operating hours
.2:00 pm

Itinerary

Basilica Papale Di San Paolo Fuori le Mura

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

St. Peter's Basilica

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate

It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirement
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.4

based on 12 reviews

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Private tour for 2 adults...

Robert_B, Nov 2025

Private tour for 2 adults with very warm and friendly driver Marianna and very interesting and knowledgeable guide Anna. Excellent historical information and tour . Unfortunately St Peter’s was too crowded with long lines even at 5 pm to see with our guide.

Response from Host, Nov 2025

Thank you for your review, we will be sure to tell Marianna and Anna! We are sorry about the long lines at St Peter, unfortunately due to this year's Jubilee and the fact that it was the day before a religious holiday, lines could be very long at all times of the day. We are happy that you still enjoyed the tour!

Deep review of Christian Sites.

Randall_W, Dec 2024

Excellent review of Christian sites in Rome. Very helpful review of the 2nd tier sites for those who have seen the 1st tier.

Response from Host, Mar 2025

Thank you for your nice review!

Interesting and beautiful basilica visits

Janice_N, Nov 2024

The tour is advertised as small group, but in fact it is private and it was just my husband and I along with our guide and Driver. The tour also doesn’t advertise well as far as pick up options. Per the guide & driver we could’ve been picked up closer to where we were staying, but given it was advertised as a small group and only four pick up locations provided when booking we wasted our time and money getting a cab to one of those locations to start the tour. Also, the tour advertises that you will visit the four major basilicas in Rome, but that is impossible to do, given the time and distance between them & lines at St Peter’s. Fortunately, we had already visited Saint Peter’s Badilica, so opted with our guide to just go to the other three. Our guide was knowledgeable and friendly, and we enjoyed the information provided, but as someone else stated it was not as much Catholic reference and information as had expected & had received in other tours. Given that it was actually a private tour and not a group, we did enjoy the flexibility and kindness of both the guide and driver to create a route that made the most sense to visit the three basilicas, which were all amazing and beautiful, and so moving to see.

Response from Host, Mar 2025

Thank you for your review

Expected more

Hemin_P, Jun 2024

I think for us we expected this to be a Christian tour as the title says, however our guide was non religious and it seemed like we learnt more about the art work or artists, than about how the church’s relate to Christianity. I would have appreciated the tour to be a little more in depth, it felt like we were in and out. Our driver was amazing, the tour guide was also amazing, only thing is we wanted more knowledge on the Christianity side of things, which is why we booked a Christian tour.

Response from Host, Jun 2024

Hello dear customer, we are sorry to read about this review as we clearly state in the product description that this tour is a journey through the art of Christianity and not a tour focused on theology. We are also really sad to read that our tour guide seems to have been discriminated by you because in your opinion she was not devoted enough.

Christain Rome Tour Semi-Private

razteach, Oct 2019

Our Tour Guide was excellent. She was very knowledgeable. There were only four of us on the tour and we are family members. I appreciate Viator accommodating us when I requested a shorter tour due to time constraints as to when we had to meet our Trafalgar Tour at the hotel. The three basilicas we saw were very beautiful and impressive. (We had to omit one basilicas the reason above and we were going to see St. Peter's the next day anyway.) Our driver was also excellent and very friendly. I highly recommend this tour

Response from Host, Nov 2019

Thank you very much for your review! We're happy to hear that you enjoyed the tour and the breathtaking art of the basilicas. Hope you get to see even more in a future visit to Rome!

Not worth the money - basically paid for the ride

John_E, Jun 2019

Started with confusion on hotel pick up - we were waiting at front of hotel, don’t know where the guide was waiting. The guide (female, already forgot her name) seemed unorganized and did not fully plan ahead. We were grateful that we were the only ones to sign up for this tour as we had the tour to ourselves. The driver seemed nice, and did his job of dropping us off and picking us up from each location. However, both the driver and guide seemed to disagree/argue in Italian frequently during our tours which was not very professional. Overall the guide seemed to pick the churches that did not have a fee (and therefore did not need to have a schedule or much of a plan). She also seemed to lack in Catholic and historic information, but was ok with knowledge of some architecture. We tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and be polite. First stop we visited St. Peter square only. Our guide said the lines were too long and our whole trip would be wasted waiting to get in (so why didn't she purchase advance tickets for us??). Visited Saint Paul outside the walls - beautiful church with lots of history but the guide basically let us go on our own. A quick tour of St. Basilica of St. John in the Lateran. When we arrived at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore we were too late to see it since it closed at 7 & we arrived 6:40 (the guards wouldn’t allow in since they closed in 20 minutes). Maybe not entirely our guides fault but the timing should have been planned better. We did get to go across the street to St. Lawrence to see the Holy Stairs, but again we went inside without the guide. The guide wanted to find another church to tour (to make up for the ones we couldn’t see?) but by that time we were tired and just wanted to return to our hotel. Perhaps with a different guide or a more definitive plan, the tour would have been satisfactory.

Response from Host, Dec 2019

Thank you for your review. We are sorry that you did not enjoy the tour. Rome has vast Christian history and our guides are always well organized and prepared to show you as many things as possible in a 4 hours tour.

This was the most wonderful tour...

Kerry_E, Jun 2018

This was the most wonderful tour. The extraordinarily knowledgeable young woman who ran the tour covered, art, history and theology and was such a delight. She has been studying archeology for a long time and it showed. She also gave us tips about getting around the city and what to look out for. As the tour is recently new on viator I was unsure what to expect but it exceeded our expectations and was one of the best if not the best Roman tour we took. We had our own driver as there was only the two us booked and he was also very accommodating and pleasant. Apparently they never take more that eight as they like to ensure you have their full attention. The car/van was spotless and the air conditioning was a treat in the Roman heat. Thank you so much, you made the start of our holiday very special. Wow, wow and wow! Kerry and Harry Williams

Response from Host, Dec 2019

Dear Kerry and Harry, thank you so much for this wonderful review! We are really happy to know that you started your holiday with our tour and that you liked it so much! We always work to provide our customer the best service!

This was our favorite tour. Both...

John C, Apr 2018

This was our favorite tour. Both the guide and driver were fantastic. If you like visiting very old churches and enjoy factual information take this one. Another great perk-- they pick you up at your hotel! No running around trying to find meeting places!