About Imperial 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 per person in advance)
- Roman Forum
- Palatino Hill
- Circus Massimo
- Aventino Hill

> Lunch in a tipical Roman Trattoria (customizable)

- Catacombs and the Appian Road (8 euro per person)
- S.Giovanni in Laterano (the Cathedral of Rome)
- 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 with Saint Peter Basilica
- (in order to avoid the line at the enrty of the Vatican Museum you should have a Private Guide, who will be ONLY for your Party, his cost is 150 euros cash to him 2/3 hours lenght of the Tour, + tickets cost 20 euros per person ... it's VERY suggested....)
- Trevi Fountain
- Spanish Steps

> Lunch at the best Pizza Place (customizable)

- S. Angel Castle (Hadrian Mausolum)
- 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

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).