Rome E-Bike Tour Along Ancient Appian Way

Ready to ride for 12 miles on an eBike enjoying amazing landscapes and ruins of the roman countryside along the Appian way?
Uphills won't scare us as this tour is tailored on any accustomed rider regardless the fitness level. The eBike will constantly assist you on any surface and condition.

Different from most of the e-Bike tours of the Appian Way, we'll go off the beaten path and ride up to the Park of the Aqueducts, an incredible work of engineering whose remains are still imposing!

Starting from the Circus Maximus, biggest chariot race truck of ancient Rome capable of 250000 people, and the Bath of Caracalla for 1500 people, our bike tour will take us to the Circus of Maxentius location chosen for the Movie Ben Hur in 1959, to several illustrious tombs flanking the Appian Way and meant to show off the social status.

While riding, the guide will show you the secrets and the amazing technical skills to build a road perfectly straight for 50 km!

Meeting Point

Via dei Cerchi, 59

Via dei Cerchi, 59, 00186 Roma RM, Italy

tour departs at the e-bike rental office, 10 minutes walking distance from the Roman Forum and Termini station

What's included:

• Headsets
• PhD archaeologist Professional guide
• e-Bike rental
• Use of helmet
• No extra fees, all included!

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Circo Massimo

Via del Circo Massimo, Rome, 00186

- Biggest chariot race track in Ancient Rome and starting point of the Appian Way
- Capable of 250000 people, one quarter of the entire population of Rome in the hey-day
- 600 m in length

5 minutes

Terme di Caracalla

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 00153

Among the biggest and most well preserved Roman bath; around 15000 people could bath at the same time!

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Arco Di Druso

Via Appia, Via di Porta S. Sebastiano, Rome, 00179

Erroneously considered a triumphal arch, it is instead one of the arcades of the aqueduct made by Caracalla and meant to feed his Thermal baths.

2 minutes

Porta San Sebastiano

Via di Porta S. Sebastiano, 18, Rome, 00179

The largest and among the best preserved gates in the defensive walls built by Aurelian in Rome.

5 minutes

Chiesa del Domine Quo Vadis

Via Appia Antica, 51, Rome, 00179

During Nero's persecution of Christians, Saint Peter is fleeing Rome to avoid martyrdom, he meets Jesus where now the church is and asks him "Lord, where are you going?" and he replied "I go to Rome, to be crucified again". The apostle then understands that Jesus, with this sign, asks him to return to Rome and accept martyrdom, and he obeys.

2 minutes

Catacombs of Saint Callixtus

Via Appia Antica 110, Al centro del parco, Rome, 00179

One of the biggest Catacombs in town. 50 Martyrs and 16 Popes buried here. We'll ride inside the Vatican City state as this area is among the extraterritorial belongins of the Vatican in Rome!

Pass by without stopping

Catacombe San Sebastiano

Via Appia Antica 136, Rome, 00179

The place where the relics of the apostles Peter an Paul were moved during the invasion of the barbarians to prevent them from being vandalized

Pass by without stopping

Appian Way (Via Appia Antica)

Via Appia Antica 42, Rome, 00178

An incredible masterpiece of engineering, connecting Rome with the south-eastern part of the empire and built in 312 BC by Appius Claudius Caecus, a politician.
With a length of 360 roman miles, most of them still with the original basalt blocks paving, the Appian way is the longest ancient roman road still preserved and location of important historical events like the crucifixion of Spartacus' 6000 soldiers along the road, the capture of Rome by the Allies during WWII and in 1960 summer Olympics, part of the men's marathon course.

2 hours

Circus of Maxentius

Via Appia Antica 153, Rome, 00179

Chosen as a location for the movie Ben Hur in 1959, the most well preserved ancient roman chariot race track, capable of around 10000 people

10 minutes

Villa di Massenzio

Via Appia Antica 153, , Rome, 00179

An imperial villa of Rome, built by the Roman emperor Maxentius. The complex is located between the second and third mile of the Appian Way, it consists of three main buildings: the palace, the circus of Maxentius and the dynastic mausoleum.

10 minutes

Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella e Castrum Caetani - Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica

Via Appia Antica 161, , Rome, 00178

Monumental tomb meant to celebrate a member of an illustrious family of the 1st century BC boasting one of the members of the Triumvirate of Julius Caesar and the one who put an end to Spartacus' revolt

2 minutes

Complesso di Capo di Bove - Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica

Via Appia Antica 222, Rome, 00178

The baths of a vast land property of the 2nd century AD with mosaics still preserved

5 minutes

Parco degli Acquedotti - Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica

Via Lemonia 256, Rome, 00174

The name derives from the presence under and overground of seven Roman and papal aqueducts that supplied ancient Rome

30 minutes