Guided tour

Rome: Capuchin Crypt & Museum Tour with Choral Concert

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Activity provider: Opera Omnia Events s.r.l
Guided tour

Rome: Capuchin Crypt & Museum Tour with Choral Concert

Activity provider: Opera Omnia Events s.r.l

From US$ 84.70 per person

Explore the early Christian history of Rome on a tour of the underground chambers at the Capuchin Crypt. Attend a concert of Gregorian chants and see masterpieces by Caravaggio, Domenichino, and Reni.

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Duration 70 minutes
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English
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Limited to 10 participants

Experience

Highlights
  • Explore the early Christian history of Rome
  • Visit the Capuchin Crypt and see the bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks
  • Attend a choral concert in the restored Basilica of Santa Maria Immacolata
  • Learn how Christianity was once considered a cult and its members executed as heretics
  • Discover stunning works of art by Caravaggio and Domenichino
Full description

Explore Rome's underground burial chambers and crypts to discover a history that predates Christianity, and post-dates the Renaissance. Join this tour to be taken back to a time when Christianity was considered a cult and its members were executed as heretics and buried as martyrs.

You will see hundreds of burial chambers, from modest single sites to extravagant family tombs, in the long corridors of the underground city.

Attend a choral concert by the renowned Schola Romana Ensemble inside the Basilica of Santa Maria Immacolata. The program is rare and valuable, and alternates the archaic mysticism of Gregorian Chants - the most ancient form of Occidental music - with the best polyphony compositions by the Roman School, including masterworks by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Then visit the Capuchin Crypt and Museum for an encounter with Caravaggio’s magnificent “St. Francis in Meditation” canvas, along with masterpieces by Domenichino and Reni. See relics from the life of St. Francis and some of his followers. The Crypt is decorated with the bones of 4,000 Capuchin monks, including a real skull and crossbones and chandeliers made of human vertebrae.

Includes
  • Church of Santa Maria Immacolata private entrance
  • A capella concert in the Church
  • Gregorian chants & poliphonic music of the 1500/1600
  • Entrance fees to the Capuchin Crypt and Museum
  • Guided tour by a professional guide
  • Transportation

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Capuchin Museum, Via Vittorio Veneto 27, Rome

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Overall rating

4.3 /5

based on 29 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.8/5
  • Value for money
    4.4/5
  • Service
    4.5/5
  • Organization
    4.2/5

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Terrific tour. Knowledgeable guide. We did feel a bit rushed through the museum and crypts; the tour could have been about 20 minutes longer for that. Also could not always hear the guide, especially in the crypts where we heard absolutely nothing, the headphones that are sometimes used would have made it all perfect.

December 5, 2019

It started at the agreed time. The guide picked us up in the church and then went with us through the museum. There we got explanations about some exhibits, but we were only able to look at most things in passing. The crypt was very interesting, but unfortunately you were not allowed to take pictures. There are only 4 rooms decorated with bones. The guide, a young man, described everything very well, but not all the people in the room could get together, the last ones could not get in until the first ones left. The concert afterwards was really impressive, the four singers are first class!

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September 30, 2019

The bones were very impressive. Actually expected real catacombs. But it was 5 rooms where the bones were displayed. the room was also too small for the size of the group. We were in the front. But I can't imagine the rear ones understood everything. Also, the person who showed us around didn't speak English very well. it was understandable, but she had to search for words at times. The concert was not what we came for, but it was nice. (took about 20 min) it would have been nice for us then.

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September 4, 2019

Product ID: 43812