Wheelchair friendly tours of Rome

Rome for people with limited mobility

Here below my list of wheelchair friendly tours of Rome I use to organise for my special guests. Yes! Rome is accessible to people with reduced mobility and is among the most equipped European cities too.

All the tours in the city centre, in fact, can be done easily with a wheelchair. All archaeological sites have also, a ramp or lift for wheelchair users.

Here below you find the tours I designed to be wheelchair friendly and allow you to experience Rome without difficulty.

How to rent a wheelchair in Rome.

All Rome in a day – Full-day by private car

This 4 hours tour is made by private car with driver. This tour was born for customers with reduced mobility but during the last season, it had a huge success among other customers too.

It is a tour of the all city of Rome, the top 20 highlights of Rome will be shown during this comfortable tour by private van. The car is going to be an elegant Mercedes Viano with space enough in the luggage van for the wheelchair. This visit is made entirely by car or with some short walks. Yes, if you wish, we can also leave the car for short and relaxing walks to go closer to the monuments, take pictures, admire, feel the rhythm of the city, listen to my comments, and then go back to the car.

For program details, please go to the page.

The Ancient Rome or the Colosseum

Do not deprive yourself of the visit to the interior of the Colosseum if you are in a wheelchair. The visit can be done by following exactly the same circuit as on foot. The colosseum is equipped with elevators and ramps.

There’s not even the need to book in advance. If one of the visitors is in a wheelchair, the whole family skip the line and get in without waiting. The free ticket, on the contrary, is only for 1 accompanying person. The other persons visiting have to pay their ticket, but they can do it on site.

The visit of the Roman Forum and the Palatine, is also feasible in wheelchair. They have recently made special paths for the 4 wheels!

Sistine Chapel, Rooms of Raphael, Caravaggio and the Vatican Museums

Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica are also wheelchair friendly tours. There are also special toilets both in the Museums and the Basilica.

People with a disability over 74% accompanied by one person do not stand in the line, They have a priority lane to get in. The other participants, indeed, must book in advance to skip the line with them. The disable and his accompanying person only, infect, have free tickets and can collect them directly at the “special tickets” window. Don’t forget to carry the document proving your disability.

Wheelchair program

To visit the Vatican Museums with a wheelchair, you have to follows a different itinerary than usually. We’ll have infect the possibility to access to closed area in order to use lifts and special ramps, the others cannot use.

Through our special itinerary, we will be able to join the Terrace, the Pine-cone courtyard and after that, taking the Library gallery, the Tapestries gallery and the Geographical Maps galley, we’ll get into the Sistine Chapel using a special entrance.

But the Sistine Chapel isn’t the only wheelchair accessible area of the Museums. Also the Rooms of Raphael are easily accessible. Unfortunately, the Vatican Gardens are not accessible to wheelchair users, as well as the Greek collection of Status and Saint Peter Basilica.

To join St. Peter basilica from the Vatican Museums in fact, there are 3 big ramps down. They have large steps and handrails, but they are totally 90 steps down. Unfortunately, no ramps nor lifts there so, if the person cannot walk at all, we have to enter St. Peter’s basilica trought the square.

St. Peter's Basilica

A family with a person in wheelchair, skip the line upon St. Peter Square the fast entre the basilica. You have to join the metal detector machines, which are into the right side colonnade of the square. Once there you ask the police men there. He’ll open a metal detector machine for you, and let you get in without waiting. The Basilica is totally accessible in wheelchair: sacristy, grottos, even the first floor of the dome does. Accessible toilets are also available there.

For the detailed program, go to the dedicated page