ITALY Readers's Tips - Yes, Regards, Walter [PAST POST] You can avoid the *long* Colosseum lines if you buy your tickets at the nearby Palatine Hill.   A Colosseum ticket is valid for the Palatine Hill and a Palatine Hill ticket is valid for the Colosseum (1 ticket/same price €10. But it must be used on the same day, unless bought after 1:30PM, then it is valid until 1:30PM of the following day.   There are 2 ticket offices for the Palatine Hill.   One is in the Roman Forum and the other is on the main street that runs along the eastside of the Palatine Hill. Go to www.pitolium.g/eng/fori/pianta.m See the '1' now look alttle below it and to the left.   See a building with 2 reddish/brown roofs.hat is the entrance to the Palatine Hill from the Roman Forum and the ticket office is below it.   One option is to explore the Forum and work your way up to the Arch of Titus (which is '1' and then over to that bldg, buy your tickets and then either go up to the Palatine Hill or over to the Colosseum.   This ticket office might have a line but definitely alot shorter than the Colosseum.asy to find, you'll see people walking over to it in the Forum.  Still looking at the map website this photo http://tinyurl.m/orvcy was taken between the '1' which is the Arch of Titus and the building with the reddish/brown roof above it which houses the Forum Museum (Antiquarium Forense.    On the leftside of the photo between the trees you can see the ticket bldg and above it the bldg I mentioned earlier with the 2 roofs on the map.   This is what you will see if walking up the Via Sacra from the Roman Forum to the Arch of Titus www.images.m/Italy/Rome/forum2palatine.g   The 2nd ticket office with no lines is on Via di San Gregorio, see that street on the map website above.   The ticket office is where that little 'culdesac' is to the left of the 'eg' in Gregorio.   www.avelcreek.m/constantine.g   This photo was taken from the Colosseum, it's that street behind the Arch of Constantine in the distance, the ticket office is ~300m from the Colosseum.    With your ticket you just go to the left of the long Colosseum line and enter the Colosseum, in ~50m you'll come to the ticket turnstiles. Before this you will pass thru a Security Checkpoint like at an airport but it moves rather quickly. This is another option to get your Colosseum tickets and it's sold at those sites. The 'Roma Archeologia Card' for €20 and valid for 7 days will get you into these archaeological sites and museums; Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps, Crypta Balbi, Baths of Diocletian, Colosseum, Palatine Hill, Baths of Caracalla, Villa dei Quintili (outside of Rome proper and a bit hard to get to, Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella (near the Via Appia Antica Catacombs. The Colosseum/Palatine Hill regular ticket is €10, so in order to make this Pass worth the money you would have to visit at least 2 of the other sites or museums.  You can buy this Pass at all of those sites and museums except for the last two.   You also mi

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