My special relationship with the Vatican enables me to always offer priority access avoiding exhausting lines.
We visit one of the most important museums worldwide, with a focus on Michelangelo's' masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's mastery works in the 'stanze' and the Pinacoteca Vaticana, including the Gallery of Maps, Candelabras and Tapestries and every other individual request.
Afterwards a priority access to St. Peter's Basilica, center of the Roman Catholic Church, completes our tour with its splendid sculptures and mosaics of great historic and religious importance.
Ancient Rome - the Colosseum
We take a journey through time and discover the Roman gladiator ...
We take a journey through time and discover the Roman gladiator fights and the Colosseum's secrets, understand about the ruins of the Roman Forum, visit Constantine's Arch and the Palatine Hill, residence of the Roman Emperors.
Panoramic tour with limo or minivan
This visit can include everything you desire and gives me the possibility to ...
This visit can include everything you desire and gives me the possibility to show you much of Rome's spread out historical center: fragments of the ancient City Walls, the Appian Way, Caracalla's Baths ...
"...that Gallery, which seems to be made to be the universe's theatre, the collection of marvels, and the charm of human eyes". This is how the man of letters Scipione Francucci described Cardinal Scipione's collection of paintings and ancient sculptures for the first time in 1613. The Gallery houses Gian Lorenzo Bernini's early sculptures, the high dramas painted by Caravaggio and Raphael and much more...
On the Appian Way – the Catacombs
The so-called regina viarum, the first Roman Road, delights us with it's unique ...
The so-called regina viarum, the first Roman Road, delights us with it's unique atmosphere where time stands still. We will see the little church where St. Peter's had a very meaningful vision, the Catacombs, an example of a private Roman bathing complex and a monumental tomb.
Baroque Rome : from square to square
We visit Rome's charming squares learning about Fontana di Trevi ...
We visit Rome's charming squares learning about Fontana di Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona with it's marvelous fountains by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the Pantheon, Rome's extraordinary and best preserved ancient building where Raphale is buried.
We taste Rome's best pizza and learn about local delicatessens in typical Roman neighborhoods. A visit to a Roman winery will complete our experience. Where in Rome can you drink the best coffee? Where can you taste the best gelato?
This is a very personalized tour...
Hadrian's ancient Villa, one of the largest and most spectacular estates built in the Roman Empire and the Renaissance Villa d'Este with its marvelous gardens, rich with fountains. Both sights are on the World Heritage List and simply breathtaking.
The ancient Roman port city tells us the story of centuries of daily life in Rome through it's well preserved theatre, Neptune's Bath complex (with beautiful Roman mosaics) and its many apartment houses. I consider Ostia Antica a "little Pompej" really worth a visit.
This area was a holiday resort for rich Romans in antiquity and has continued to be since the Renaissance. The area derives its name from the thirteen villages perched on the Alban Hills that turned into strongholds during the Middle Ages. We visit Castel Gandolfo overlooking Lake Albano, the Pope's summer residence, the beautiful little town of Nemi known for its miniature strawberries and Frascati, where we stop for a wine tasting lesson at a local winery.
This building has had a checkered history. Originally a dynastic tomb, it was converted into a fortress, then became a noble dwelling and finally a papal residence. Furthermore it is a setting of the Tosca Opera. We reconstruct it's destiny and enjoy the superb view from it's terrace.
The first public collection in the world and today the most important collection of the Roman civilization was founded by pope Sixtus IV in 1471 and is situated on one of Rome's seven hills and includes the ancient "Tabularium", Rome's state's archive, from where we enjoy an unforgettable view over the Roman Forum.
There are a number of popular shopping neighbourhoods in Rome; each has its own atmosphere and attractions and I will suggest the best local designers, tailors, shoemakers, outlets and much more...
The palace, built in 1548 by Cardinal Capodiferro and refurbished about one century later by Cardinal Bernardino Spada, contains Borromini's amazing "Galleria Prospettica" and the rich picture gallery with paintings by Guercino, Reni, Brueghel and a masterpiece by an almost unknown artist!
One of the most picturesque Roman noble palaces houses a prestigious collection of artworks by Raphael, Titian, Velasquez, Caravaggio, Bernini and others, displayed as they were in the 18th century turning the gallery into an artistic wonderland.
Architect Baldassarre Peruzzi built an elegant villa with gardens sloping down towards the river Tiber for the wealthy banker Agostino Chigi, who commissioned the decoration of it's interiors to Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo and other luminaries of 16th century art.
The museum consists of the most important Etruscan collection worldwide and occupies the rooms and the gardens of the splendid sixteenth- century villa where Pope Julius III resided during the summer months.
The ancient Romans built a temple consecrated to Aesculapius, the god of medicine, right at the Tiber ford's place, in the hope of defeating a terrible epidemic. In the heart of the town's neighborhood called 'Trastevere' we visit the early Christian Basilica dedicated to the patron of music.
The history of the town's Jewish quarter and Europe's oldest Jewish community includes a visit to the beautiful main Synagogue and it's museum and intersects the history of some Roman noble families.
This collection is houses in the palace, where in 1901 Rome's Universal Exhibition was held.
Today the collection contains some among the oat important artworks of the XIX and XX centuries by Italian artists such as Morandi, Balla, Carrà, Sironi, Guttuso and many others.
One of the major Roman noble palaces houses today the National Gallery of ancient art and exhibits works of the XII to the XVIII centuries, notably Raphael's famous "Fornarina", a "Venus and Adonis" by Titian, Pietro da Cortona's remarkable ceiling and last but not least one of Caravaggio's masterpieces.
The church of San Clemente is a "time tunnel" with its three levels of buildings which leads us back to Ancient Rome, while the church of SS. Quattro Coronati surprises us with exquisite medieval frescoes telling us the story of Emperor Constantine the Great.
At the foot of the Pyramid lies some of Rome's most charming sights, the Protestant Cemetery, the first granted by the popes to non- catholic foreigners. In the shade of pines and cypress trees, colonies of cats have become the regular visitors of the illustrious dead, who include the poet Shelley, John Keats, Goethe's son and many others.
The Papal Basilica of St. John in the Lateran and other treasures of early Christianity
The Lateran Basilica is still considered "omnibus urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput", the mother and head of all the churches in the city and the world. We will visit even it's beautiful cloister, the ancient baptistery, the Scala Santa (the steps are said to be the ones on which Christ stood in Pontius Pilate's palace during his trial and St. Helene is supposed to have brought them to Rome) and the Sancta Sanctorum (the Holy of the Holies), the precious relics in the private medieval chapel of the Popes.
Zaha Hadid's original creation houses exhibitions of contemporary art and there is also the vast permanent collection of art and architectural drawings from the the 20th and 21st century.
This villa is one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture and it's interior suites are famous for their magnificent Mannerist frescoes by Taddeo and Federico Zuccari celebrating the glory of the Farnese family.
The gardens are as impressive as the building itself, a significant example of the Italian Renaissance garden period with it's giardino segreto (secret garden) and it's casino.
Elements of the gardens have influenced many estate gardens as the 'Harold Lloyd Estate' in Beverly Hills.
Situated to the east of Rome, near the 25th milestone on the Via Prenestina, in ancient times Palestrina was called Praeneste. Palazzo Colonna-Barberini is today a museum built into the ancient temple of Fortuna. An amazing setting with the famous Nile-mosaic and a lot of history.
The Etruscan Necropolis of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
These very special 'cities of the dead' are set in a unique scenery not far from Rome and provide an inside view of these mysterious people with multi-medial tombs.
