Rome - Itineraries

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Tevere & Trastevere

Trastevere, Campo dei Fiori and Testaccio. Districts buzzing with life from the early hours of the morning until long after midnight and ideally visited at least twice: once in the day and once at night, so as to best witness the transformation of streets and squares which, during the daylight hours, are home to a constant coming and going of city traffic and, as night falls, are invaded by fun-loving Romans, students, and tourists...

Outside the City Walls

Rome offers much more than the average tourist will be able to take in during a classic three or four day visit to the city. Whilst we are not suggesting for a moment that visitors to the Italian capital should skip the tour of the Vatican or the Coliseum, for those who have already seen all the Eternal City's most famous monuments, or are staying in Rome for a longer period, a trip beyond the city walls becomes an absolute must....

Roman Baroque

Rome's Quirinal Hill is where the greatest concentration of the city's Baroque edifices are located. The Quirinal Palace, now the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, was built in the late 16th century as summer residence for the papacy, designed so as to offer sumptuous refuge from the torrid heat of the Italian capital. In this period, popes were the ambitious offspring of Italy's most powerful families, the...

Capital gains

Rome: archaeological city par excellence, strewn with the traces of a glorious past. Our journey across the imperial city starts at the northern most gate, the Porta del Popolo, from where we head towards the Via del Corso, past the old river port of Ripetta and the elegant Villa Medici as far as Piazza del Popolo and the Egyptian obelisk brought to Rome during the reign of Augustus. From the piazza a small flight of steps leads...

Imperial Treasures

This itinerary explores the heart of Ancient Rome, the very centre of the mighty and innovative civilization which dominated the Mediterranean and Europe for hundreds of years. In this small area you will find examples of the achievements of this great civilization in art, architecture and engineering. The symbolic centre of the Roman World was the Capitol, the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill. Below the Captitol lies the Roman...

The City of Popes

On the banks of the river Tiber, a few square meters in which to admire both St Peter's Basilica and the Castle of Sant'Angelo. This is the pulsating heart of Rome, capital of Italy, but also a state within a state: the Vatican City. The Ponte Sant'Angelo, ornate bridge adorned with the statues of angels and saints, leads visitors directly to the Castle of Sant'Angelo. Today home to a National Museum, the castle was once a papal...