WALKING TOURS
These walking tours have a length between 2:30 and 3 hours. We may either meet clients in their hotel's lobby and start the tour on foot or we may take a taxi together (from their hotel) to go at the starting point of our tour where we abandon the taxi and continue on foot. These are not designed as "shopping tours" but of course to give you as many information as possible on the history and traditions of the city as well as help you to get acquainted with.

Renaissance & Baroque

Fountains and Palaces, Churches and Squares built between 1500 and 1700. Stories of noble families, cardinals and Popes, but also high fashion boutiques and gelato shops. When Rome was the center of all art and culture of modern Europe, painters, architects and sculptors from Norway and Spain, France and Russia, all had to spend some years in the Eternal city. We will view some of the best examples of all the fine arts. This walking tour includes highlights such as : Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, The Pantheon, Navona square, Hadrianeum, and important palaces like the Italian Parliament and the Senate House.

Imperial

This tour is based on the most interesting archaeological area of Europe and includes sites really next to each other and all accessible with the same ticket: the Roman Forum, the Imperial Fora, the Colosseum and the Palatine hill.

The forum has always been the heart of the public life of the Ancient Rome, where the most important political, religious and military cerimonies where taking place, where trials where held, where the most important markets where opened every morning. The Colosseum was the biggest of the many amphitheaters built in the Roman empire, where the most spectacular gladiators' fighting were taking place and it was the biggest "stadium"(in the modern meaning) ever built by past civilizations. The Palatine hill, the official residence of the Roman Empire as well as the Administrative center, was literally covered with the complex and imposing structures of the Imperial Palaces.

So we will really walk in the heart of the history of the ancient Rome in one of the most exciting "live" lecture that will involve archaeology and legends, history and myths at the same time. An unforgettable experience!

This tour is only among ruins in an archaeological area. This means that you need convenient shoes and should be ready to walk through ups and downs of a hilly and rugged ground.

Vatican

We enter in the Papal state to admire some of the beauties of one of the most interesting museums of the world and pass among some of the most famous sections like the Candelabra gallery, the Tapestry Gallery and the Gallery of the Maps.

Then we will enter in one of the most celebrated masterpieces in the world art history: the Sistine Chapel, the palatine chaple wanted by Pope Sixtus IV with the famous frescos by Michelangelo.

We will the proceed to the Basilica of St. Peter, the biggest church of the world where, among 400 statues another masterpiece by Michelangelo is on display : the Pietà.

We'll end our tour in St. Peter's Square, where the weekly papal audience take place and where you may take a picture of the famous "papal window" on the façade of the apostolic palace.

Fountains

This is another nice walking through the city center and its shopping area. Rome has always been famous for the abundance of water since the first century A.D. thanks to the many aqueducts built by the ancient Romans, and for this reason has always had an abundance of fountains. Some of the most beautiful and celebrated fountains of the 1500, 1600 and 1700 centuries will lead our path. The Triton, Trevi, the Four Rivers, the "Facchino", as well as the other anonymous fountains in other squares like piazza Colonna, piazza del Pantheon, piazza Navona.

Off the Beaten Paths

This walking itinerary is aimed at discovering masterpiecess hidden in the churches of the Eternal City: painters like Caravaggio, P.P. Rubens, Pietro da Cortona, Cavalier d'Arpino, Carlo Maratta, Raffaello Santi (or simply Raphael) left some of their celebrated paintings and frescoes in our churches. We can also see the residences (or Palazzi) where the princes of the Church were living, surrounded by a magnificence and a sumptuousness hardly conceivable. On the other hand, some of the medieval buildings (now restructured) and narrow streets (still narrow) where the commoners were living. If you have already seen some famous highlights always full with thousands of tourists, like Trevi Fountain or the Spanish Steps, this is the ideal tour to discover another side of the city (and to go deeper in its history!).

Trastevere

Our walk will start from the Tiber banks to locate the most important commercial port in the ancient Rome city, and to see the seat of the first Juvenile Reformatory ever conceived in Europe thanks to the enlightened pope Innocent XII. We then will venture in the intricate maze of these medieval alleys where the "common people" of Rome has always lived, from the republican to the imperial ages of the ancient Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We'll enter in some early Christian churches to admire medieval mosaics as well as baroque decoration and statues (like the Beata Ludovica Albertoni by Bernini, or the St. Cecilia by Stefano Maderno), we will see the evidence of the popular devotion and superstition still surviving today, we'll pass in front of workshops where artisans are still working today on leather of wood or iron with their hands, we'll see the streets of one of the most lively districts of the roman movida, packed with restaurants, wine-bars, pubs, pizzeria, gelato-shops where hundreds of thousands of people spend their Friday and Saturday nights without any idea of the many medieval buildings that still give Trastevere its unique character. We will the end in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, first to visit one of the most impressive mosaics of the 1200, and then to leave you at one of the sunny tables of a nice traditional restaurant facing the relaxing (only pedestrian) square for your roman dinner.