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Underground Rome
A city beneath the city – Archeology and history of Rome. Basilica of Saint Clement, Celian Hill (Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paolo)…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups)
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Colosseum
Since its origins, Rome has always built its history year after year, preserving its glorious past and allowing modernity to coexist with antiquity. We will offer you the unique opportunity to visit the subterranean heart of the Eternal City, making a 2000 years old journey (time travel in two great places, quiet and not crowded with tourists). Basilica of Saint Clement, a three levels structure where you will be surrounded by the precious architectonical and pictorial remains. Your guide will illustrate the history and the meaning of the Mithraeum, the early Christian Baptistery, the Imperial mint and the earliest proves of the Italian language.
Then you will visit the underground of the Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paolo with its important pieces of pictorial and decorative art, ranging from the Roman Empire to the Early Middle ages. Here we will also find the only testimony of a Domus Ecclesiae in the West, a building in which the first Christians could gather. Your visit will end with a visit of the new antiquities museum, lately opened to the public.
The Heart of Rome
Experience the famous Roman squares, fountains and monuments. Spanish Steps, Navona Square, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Campo de’ Fiori, Baroque Rome…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups) or in groups
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Navona Square, Spanish Steps
The Eternal City has been always considered a museum of wonders for the great monuments that hosts in the inner city: Spanish Steps, Navona Square, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain.
Our expert tour guides will take you through the inner city, starting from Piazza Campo de’ Fiori, seat of a famous open-air market. After a brief break, we will visit Navona Square, where you will admire the artworks of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. Our visit will continue towards the ancient temple of pagan divinities, the Pantheon, which today is a Christian Basilica. Then we will move to via Condotti, the street of Rome’s most prestigious boutiques, passing through Palazzo Madama, the Column of Marcus Aurelius and Montecitorio.
At the end of via Condotti we will find the famous Trevi Fountain, well known for the movie “La Dolce Vita” of 1960. Last but not least, we will lead you at Spanish Steps, well known for the Trinità dei Monti staircase and for the Barcaccia (the Fountain of the Old Boat).
Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire
Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill, Arch of Constantine. “Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does”. The Flavian Amphitheater, also known as the Colosseum…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups) or in groups
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Navona Square, Spanish Steps
“Rome will exist as long as the Colosseum does” The Flavian Amphitheater, also known as the Colosseum, is clearly the symbol of the Roman history and its glorious past. We will guide you inside to admire the place where the gladiators and wild animals used to fight and the way how this amazing place worked.
You will walk through the Arch of Constantine and across the Roman Forum, the cultural and political center of the Ancient Rome, the deep heart of the Roman Empire.Then we will take you to visit the Palatine Hill, where Rome was legendary
founded, where you will be able to see the ruins of the Imperial palaces.
The tour will finish by gazing at the breathtaking landscape between the Forum Boarium and the River Tiber.
The Origin of Rome
Velabrum, Forum Boarium and Forum Holitorium Ancient Rome, Underground Rome, Hidden Rome. A guided walking tour for people keen about Ancient Rome history…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups)
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Colosseum, Fori Imperiali
Rome was born on the Palatine Hill, near the Velabrum valley, the ancient area between the Tiber river and the Palatine Hill, where, according to the legend, Romulus and Remus were found by the she-wolf.
There are also many evidences of settlements of archaic ages in the area of the Forum Boarium where the visit at the Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus (which can be visited only on extraordinary opening days) will lead us in the world of the attractive
rituals of the ancient and mysterious cult devoted to the divinity Mitra, the most popular during the Roman Empire.
Our expert guide will tell you the history of Rome from its archaic period and you will
discover the 2600 years history of the city. The tour will carry on toward the Forum Boarium, with the almost intact Temple of Portunus and the Temple of Hercules Victor, and we will proceed to the Forum Holitorium, with the rests of three Republican Temples included in the Basilica di San Nicola in Carcere (St Nicholas in prison), whose underground represents an open window on Ancient Rome.
Angels & Demons
The Secrete Rome Discovering the secret of Christian religion. From the success of the Dan Brown’s best seller.
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups)
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Pantheon, Navona Square
In the wake of success of Dawn Brown’s second novel “Angels & Demons”, this cultural itinerary will bring you to the places described in the book. We are talking about the “Four Altar of Science” which led the initiates of the sect 2toward the “Church of Illumination”: Castel Sant’Angelo (Castle of the Holy Angel). The tour will start from the baroque Santa Maria della Vittoria church (that hosts Bernini’s sculptural group “Ecstasy of Saint Teresa”), then we will move in a first Barberini Square and then to Piazza del Popolo. We will also visit the Pantheon and Navona Square and our itinerary will end at Ponte Sant’Angelo.
Ghosts of Rome
Secret Rome: mysteries, myths and legends. Discovering the myths of Rome, cultural and religious world capital…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups)
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Castel Sant’Angelo, Navona Square
A evocative walk from Castel Sant’Angelo to Ponte Sisto bridge, passing through Campo de’ Fiori and Piazza Navona (Navona Square), recalling the lives of famous personalities like Beatrice Cenci, Olimpia Maidalchini, also known as the “Pimpaccia” of Piazza Navona, Giordano Bruno, Alessandro VI Borgia and Umberto I of Savoy. The many legends about the secret life of Rome surrounds this amazing city in an aura of mistery. The histories about people who lived in the Ancient Rome will fascinate you and, who knows?! Maybe you’ll bump into one of its ghosts!!!
Tour of Roman Obelisks
Egyptian presences and mythologies. The obelisks: Pincian Hill, Piazza del Popolo, Circus Maximus, Piazza Navona, Montecitorio…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups)
– Language: all major languages
You will experience an exciting tour through history and legends about these monoliths consecrated to the Sun God. Your expert guide will tell you everything about obelisks provenience: the majority of them were transported from Egypt to Rome during the Roman empire, while others were realized with the same granite used by the Egyptians.
In Egypt, obelisks celebrated the Pharaoh’s kingship and his immortality in Rome they were revisited as symbols of power and victory. The itinerary will start from Piazza del Popolo with its Flaminio obelisk, then we will look at the obelisk of the Spanish Steps, which is situated right on the top of the famous staircase. The next stop will be at Piazza Montecitorio, where the obelisk of the Pharaoh Psammetico II rises up. Our tour will end with a visit at Rome’s most beautiful obelisk, which is the one that crowns Piazza Navona, Fountain of the Four Rivers, made by Bernini, decorated by false Egyptian hieroglyphics, wrongly copied by roman gouges. At the end of the tour we will return to the hotel (only to hotels in the city center).
Vatican museums, Sistine Chapel, St.Peter
One of the greatest art collection in the world. Raphael Rooms, Painting Gallery of the Candelabra, Tapestries and Maps. You will be blown away by the…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups) or in groups
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Vatican City
The tour will start from the Vatican Museums entrance. You will be blown away by the most fascinating museum in the world. We have selected for you the most famous works of art from the huge collection which covers almost 4,000 years of history (from Egyptians to contemporary age). The museum official tour guide will be with you for the whole duration of the tour.
Starting at the Court of the Pigna, you will enjoy the scenic view on the Vatican Gardens, you will proceed to visit the Pius-Clementine museum which houses important pieces of ancient art as the Laocoon, the Apollo of the Belvedere and the Belvedere Torso. Afterwards, you will lead to the Gallery of the Candelabra, the Gallery of Tapestries, the Gallery of the Maps and the amazing Raphael’s Rooms.
Finally you will be taken to the breathless Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and its famous Renaissance paintings. Leaving the Vatican Museums, you will visit the St. Peter’s Basilica, the heart of Christianity, and the masterpieces it preserves. The tour will end at the astonishing St. Peter’s Square, a masterpiece made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Ancient Ostia excavations
Relics of the ancient Roman civilization. A journey through the everyday life
in the Middle Ages…
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups)
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Ostia
We will visit the ruins of Ostia, where the remains of the first ancient Rome colony are preserved, with a residential structure very similar to ancient Pompeii’s one. Our official guide will take you in a back in time journey, in order to discover anecdotes and curiosities of everyday life of ancient Rome. We will see, next to the public monuments such as the Baths and the Theatre, numerous private structures as the Thermopolium (the bar of that time), the bakery and the ‘Fullonicae’ (ancient Rome’s laundries), the dwellings such as Insule and Domus, seats of the productive associations, all of which are well preserved in the ancient town city. Ostia first foundation date returns to the Republican age, it was founded in the fourth century BC as a military camp during the Imperial age and developed into a commercial port. Among the city’s best monuments, we will admire the Theatre, which could accommodate about 4000 people, the Necropolis with the Augustan age tombs , the temple dedicated to Hercules, the oldest Synagogue in Europe,
the block of the Aurighi and the Domus of Cupid and Psyche.
Rome by night!
– Illuminated Rome A special tour that will stun you with the wonders of Rome
– Private Tour with an official Rome tour guide
– Duration: 3 hours
– Type tour: private (for individuals and groups) or in groups
– Language: all major languages
– Area of Rome: Rome city center
You will experience a fantastic panoramic tour of Rome and admire the beautiful city by night accompanied by our expert tour guide! During the tour we will make several stops in order to enjoy the city from its most beautiful place:
Piazza della Repubblica, Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica, Diocletian Baths, Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Trevi’s Fountain, where we will make a little break.
We will see Piazza Venezia and the illuminated Via dei Fori Imperiali. Then we will gaze at the majestic Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine and the Circus Maximus. We will carry on our excursion towards the Holy see of Vatican, running along the Ghetto and Castel Sant’Angelo. The itinerary will end in Saint Peter Square with a spectacular of the illuminated Saint Peter Basilica. At the end of the tour we will return to the hotel.
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