The tour in the footsteps of Caravaggio offers a delightful walk through the narrow cobbled streets of Campo Marzio where the artist worked and lived in streets once busting with artists’ workshops, art galleries and craftsmen plying their wares. The Contarelli Chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi Together we will explore the most important moments in […]
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Tour Gabii Archaeological Park The archaeological area of the ancient city of Gabii is situated about twenty kilometres fromRome, at the XII mile of the original Roman route, via Prenestina, also known as the via Gabina on the initial stretch. Gabii is located on the southern edge of the Castiglione crater, up until the XIX […]
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the tour includes the excavations under the Basilica of Santa Cecilia, the Excubitorium of the VII Cohort of Guards and the archaeological area beneath the Church of San Crisogono. Santa Cecilia underground We will begin our tour in the area below the basilica dedicated to Saint Cecilia, uncovered during restoration work at the end of […]
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The Forum Boarium and the Jewish ghetto walking tour The guided tours begins at Via del Velabro at the Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Piazza Bocca della verità. An expert archaeologist will led you to explore the archaeological area of the Forum Boarium, the ancient Rome cattle market for selling the meat. Here […]
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Underground in Campo Marzio (and a bit overground too) Our visit will begin at the lower level of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, constructed originally in the IV-V century AD above the remains of the home of the Roman matron Lucina. This first church was damaged by floods and plundering by the Norman […]
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The Baths of Caracalla, also known as Thermae Antonianae, dominate the lower part of the Aventine hill not far from the Camene Valley, the old Appian Way and Capena Gate, and are immersed in a splendid backdrop of trees and flowers. Probably the most famous, imposing and best preserved of all the ancient Roman bath […]
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The Celio Hill The visit includes, in line with church opening times, the Upper Basilica of San Clemente, the Basilica of SS. Quattro Coronati as well as the Basilicas of SS. Giovanni and Paolo and Santa Maria in Domnica (Navicella). The Celio, as well as being a famous Roman district, is also one of the […]
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Aventine Hill The tour will begin at the Aventine Hill, known in the past as Mons Murcius, for the great deal of myrtles that grew there. At the end of the monarchical age, the Aventine Hill hosted many crucial events for the history of Rome. In the time between 494 and 449 BC, the plebeian […]
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Tour of the Centrale Montemartini in Rome The termal power station dedicated to the alderman Giovanni Montemartini was inaugurated on 1912, along Via Ostiense, in a neighborhood that was under a systematic industrialization. The Centrale Montemartini That area showed huge benefits for the establishment of factories and mills: It was located near the Tiber and […]
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Tour of Castel Sant’Angelo Castel Sant’Angelo (or Castle of the Holy Angel), our tour’s subject, is the result of the transformation of the funeral monument of the emperor Hadrian. The construction of the mausoleum started in 130 a.D., inspired from the mausoleum of Augustus, and it has been completed only after the death of Antoninus […]
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