Rome Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore Guided Tour

Choose a guided tour of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome to ensure a complete experience and leave nothing undiscovered in this impressive monument. An expert local guide will accompany you during the visit to tell you every detail of the basilica's history.

The guided tour lasts approximately an hour and a quarter, which is enough time to follow a complete tour that will give you an in-depth understanding of the site. You will visit the Papal Basilica, the Loggia delle Benedizioni, the Sala dei Papi, the Scala di Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the new Museo Storico Liberiano.

You will have the opportunity to travel through 16 centuries of history. All that time this basilica has been dominating the city of Rome. It was built after Pope Liberius had a vivid dream in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to him to show him the place where he was to build the church.

Inside you will find different particularities that make it unique: impressive mosaics in the nave and apse, numerous chapels, the High Altar and the Relic of the Holy Cradle.

If you want to enhance your experience, rent headphones on site to listen more comfortably to the guide at all times and not miss anything he has to tell you during the visit.