Audience with the Pope

No one has done this before?

We did this ten years ago, when JPII was pope. I think the audience lasted about two hours. I remember that we went to mass in St. Peter's shortly after the audience and then spent the afternoon at the Forum. Your plan should definitely be doable. We even went back to our hotel between the audience and touring to change.

Thanks HK - that's kinda what I was looking for - just a ballpark...2 hours huh? I wonder if the 10 yr olds will behave that long! ha ha...Sunday mass they can do, but even during Easter & Christmas mass' that tend to be a little longer, I can see the eyes wandering and the attention span waning....

Here's a link to prior discussions had here re attending the general mass audience with the Pope--browsing these discussions should give you additional info re some of your questions:

click here

What part of "Ancient Rome" do you want to see?

Thansk Kent - I can never get the search to work for me - those are just the answers I wanted.

Chris - We'd like to spend the remainder of the day visiting the COlosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill - our hotel is close to the colosseum, so my plan was to spend whatever time was left seeing as much as we could. The following day (Thursday) we have a 1/2 day Vatican Tour booked. If the Pope doesn't start until 11 I'm afraid we won't have very much daylight time at the other places. I may have to rethink the plan.