All around the ethernal city: Rome
Duration: 4 h. to 2 days
Departure from: Rome
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About Ancient Rome Tour
ANCIENT CITY | Colosseum, Forum & Palatine
A 4 hour tour that gets you up close and personal with the arches, aquaducts and emperors of imperial Rome.
ROME IN A DAY | Postcard Rome and Lunch
Our most requested tour. All of the highlights in a 7-hour walking and driving tour with one of our driver-guides, with a break for lunch, of course!
Together you'll visit: the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, Colosseum, Forums, Palatine Hill, Via Veneto and St Peter's Basilica...with our Guide also the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums.
Don't forget lunch: you'll choose between an authentic trattoria in the city centeror an award-winning restaurant hidden out on the Appian Way. An unforgettable whirlwind day!
Prices don't include Lunch and entry fees
Here an example of 2 Days Tour in Rome ...
1st Day:
Pick up at the Hotel at 8:30 AM:
- Colosseo > In order to avoid lengthy, and time consuming queues, I will obtain the entry tickets for 12 Euros
- Roman Forum
- Palatino Hill
- Circus Massimo
- Aventino Hill
> Lunch
- Catacombs and the Appian Road ( 6 euro per person not included )
- S.Giovanni in Laterano
- Holy Step's Church
back to the Hotel around 5:00 PM
2nd day
Pick up at the Hotel at 8:30 AM:
- Pantheon
- Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel Book today!
- Trevi Fountain
- Spanish Steps
> Lunch
- S. Angelo Castle
- Piazza Navona with Bernini four River's Fountain
- Gianicolo Hill (great panorama form there for photos)
- House of Michelangelo
- Trastevere
- S.Maria in Trastevere Church
Back to the Hotel around 5:00 PM
VATICAN CITY | Sistine Chapel, Museums & Basilica
Private Highlights of the Vatican Tour - Entry fees is 14 euro per person
Private half day Vatican tour will give you total freedom of program and timing. Your private Vatican tour guide will have all the time you need to answer your questions and discuss with you the issues of particular interest to you. You will dictate theplpace. Please note that you can request private hotel pick up when you book the private Vatican tour.
Please NoteDo you know the answers to these questions:
Why are the Spanish steps in Italy and are they really Spanish?
What is the real name of the Amphitheatre Flavium?
Can you drink the water that comes from the Fountains in Rome?
What is the famous "Mouth of Truth" and what comes from it?
Where does the Vatican boundaries end and the city of Rome begin?
If you can answer to these questions, maybe you don't need a tour with Rome Connection...but if you don't know, I'll share with you all the secrets of this incredible area and I'll make you feel like a native Roman!
Piazza Navona is where the days of ancient Rome was the stage of Domitian, which was built by the Domitian in 85 AD and in the third century was restored by Alessandro Severo. It was 275 meters long, 106 wide and could accommodate 30,000 spectators.
The stadium was richly decorated with statues, one of which is to Pasquino (perhaps a copy of a Hellenistic parchment that are presumed representative Menelaus holding the body of Patroclus), now in the square next to Piazza Navona.
Since it was a stage and not a circus, there was the carceres (the gates from which came the horses racing) or the plug (the dividing wall which ran around the horses) such as the Circus Maximus, but everything was free and used for competitions of athletes. The obelisk which now stands at the center of the square was not there, but comes from the circus Maxentius, who was on the Appian Way.
The name of the square originally was 'in agony', the stadium was used only for athletics. It is not absolutely true that Piazza Navona was used for naval battles. The square was usually flooded in August to make you feel not so hot. In ancient times the square was concave. Blocked the closure of the three fountains water would go out, this would flood the square Between 1810 and 1839 where took place the jockey races, horse races or assembled (but not had kinship with the most famous horse races on via del Corso).
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| 10 | We just got back from a 10-day Cruise that originated in Rome and had stops in Sicily, Athens, Mykonos, Kusadasi, Rhodes, Santorini, and Naples. We cruised on the Celebrity Galaxy and had a fantastic time in all of the stops. The best part of our cruise however, happened before we ever even got to the ship. We started in Rome two days before we sailed and had set up Transfers to and from the airport, hotel and cruise ship along with a Guided tour with Marco Tavola of Rome Connections (www.romeconnection.com ). Marco was right there (with a bottle of wine) as we exited the airport to take us to the hotel. He met us the next morning to take us on our daylong tour of Rome. Marco drove us effortlessly through the streets of Rome, no easy task, while explaining and pointing out all of the sights along the way. We talked about Rome the whole time with Marco telling us about the people, politics, traffic, current events, and of course, Italian food. We arrived first at Ludus Magnus, the school of the Gladiators. We then walked across the street to the Colosseum with tickets Marco had gotten prior to arriving and avoided the long lines. We made stops at Circus Maximus, Palatine Hill, the Arch of Constantine, the Roman Forum of Traiano, and the Piazza Venezia where we saw the Vittorio Emanuele Monument, dedicated to the first king of Italy. We made a stop for lunch at a café Marco recommended and then we were off to the Vatican. Marco had arranged a guide for us, (highly recommended) through the Vatican including the Sistine Chapel (breath taking), the Basilica and into St. Peter’s square. We also made stops at the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon. After a wonderful dinner and a walk to the Spanish steps, we called it a day. The second day we had time to kill before heading to the cruise ship and Marco suggested a stop at Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano Lake on the way. He arranged a private tour of the castle that turned out to be the perfect end to our visit in Rome and the start of our cruise. Marco dropped us off at the pier (with another bottle of wine) and said he would be there when we got back to take us to the airport. This was our first trip to the Mediterranean and we had arranged tours at many of our stops. Our tours at the Acropolis in Athens, Ephesus in Turkey and Pompeii in Naples were great and very enjoyable but upon reflection all eight of us on this trip looked back and decided Rome was by far the best. By the time Marco dropped us off at the airport to head home, we all felt that we had not only hired the best guide in the Mediterranean, but had made a good friend as well. We all will recommend Rome Connection to our friends and family, which is how we had heard of him in the first place. | |