Unique Rome Tours

DISCOVER ROME LIKE A LOCAL

Choose from a variety of off-the-beaten-path sites and Rome’s most iconic places.
Tours designed to beat the crowds, skip-the-lines, and savor the city as the locals do.

Birth of Rome

A 3-hour private walking tour of the Circus Maximus with views of the Palatine Hill, the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin with its underground temple and the Mouth of Truth, the Tiber Island and the city’s most ancient bridges, the Augustan monuments such as the Marcellus Theater, Portico d’Ottavia and Jewish Ghetto and Michelangelo’s Capitoline Hill with panoramic views of the Roman Forum and Coliseum.

Rome City Highlights

A private 3-hour walking tour of Piazza del Popolo, the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, with stops at local shops, cafes, gelato and churches with relics, art works and hidden archaeological remains.

Rome History and Street Food

A feast for the senses, this 3-hour walking tour introduces you to Rome’s food scene and customs and the history and monuments of the most famous neighborhoods in the city.

Etruscan Cerveteri and Seaside Castle

A 6-hour excursion to discover the land and great tombs of the first ancient kings of Rome. Visit the territory of the mysterious Etruscans, which later became the land of the Popes and see their pyramid-type tombs Finish the tour of the unique burial mounds at a dramatic seaside Papal castle built on the once powerful Etruscan port and learn about the great and long history of the countryside outside Rome.

Capitoline Museums

A 3-hour tour of a network of art and archaeological museums on the Capitoline Hill that is the ancient and modern heart of the city. See some of the world’s finest ancient masterpieces in a Renaissance setting designed by Michelangelo.

Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum

A 2-hour tour inside a Renaissance palace that now houses the largest collection of ancient Etruscan and pre-Roman artifacts in the world.

Underground Rome

A private 3-hour walking tour of Rome’s oldest neighborhood behind the Coliseum, exploring several Medieval churches and the layers of ancient ruins of villas, aqueducts, and temples they store underneath.

Appian Way and Underground Catacombs

A private 3.5-hour tour by car of an underground Christian catacomb, the original road paving of the ancient Appian Way and ancient tomb of Cecilia Metella, the imperial Aurelian walls and museum of the walls inside the city’s ancient defensive gate Porta San Sebastiano, and the WWII memorial Fosse Ardeatine.

Trastevere Wine and Pasta Tour

Discover one of the oldest neighborhoods of Rome and its local food and wine on this 4-hour tour. Take an early evening stroll through Trastevere with a historian and wine expert and discover Rome’s great wines and pastas and how food intertwines with history. The tour is a great way to see where locals live, among their winding medieva streets andl buildings, and how they eat and drink.

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