Day Trips in Rome – Explore the Wonders of Rome: Private Tour Options
We offer a variety of Rome day tour options to suit your schedule and interests. All of our tours are conducted in luxury vehicles with a driver/guide, ensuring a personalized and enriching experience.
Basic Tours: Essential Rome in 4 or 6 Hours
Discover the heart of Rome on a tour focused on its main attractions. Whether in 4 or 6 hours, this private tour is ideal for those who want an overview of the city’s most famous icons, with the freedom to explore each point at their own pace. Imagine yourself visiting:
- Colosseum and Roman Forum: Immerse yourself in the grandeur of the Roman Empire, strolling through ruins that tell stories of gladiators and emperors.
- The Pantheon: Marvel at the engineering and beauty of this ancient Roman temple, one of the best preserved buildings in Ancient Rome.
- Trevi Fountain: Toss a coin and make a wish at this, perhaps the world’s most famous fountain, a Baroque masterpiece.
- Piazza Navona: Admire Bernini’s sculptures and charming cafés in this vibrant Baroque square, built on the site of the ancient Stadium of Domitian.
- Vatican (exterior view or short stop): Catch a glimpse of St. Peter’s Square and the Basilica, the heart of Vatican City.
This flexible itinerary can be adjusted to include other points of interest according to your time and preferences, always with the expertise of your driver/guide.
ARA PACIS
The museum of the Ara Pacis represents the first architectural work built in the historical center of Rome, from the fall of the fascist era to the present day.
The project was developed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, author of some of the most remarkable museums of the second half of the twentieth century.
Ara Pacis is one of the best examples of classical art. Its construction was approved by the Roman senate in 13 BC to honor the return of Augustus from the provinces of Gaul and Spain, where over three years, the emperor consolidated the power of Rome and its personnel, Opening new roads and founding colonies.
The altar was built along the Via Flaminia, near Campo Marzio, but the flood and floods of the Tiber, depositing layers of mud over the area, soon determined the landfill of the Ara Pacis, from which the memory is completely lost.
The reconstruction of the monument was decided with a view to the anniversary, in 1937/8, the two thousand years of the birth of Augustus.
Built along the Tiber, The Ara Pacis ran the risk of being compromised by the inadequacy of its container, which could not be isolated from traffic, of the exhaust gases, the overheating, of the increase of humidity and finally of the powder of acid that deposited in their marbles and plasters. The new complex, therefore, was designed with a view to preserving the monument, both from the environmental point of view, about the test of earthquakes.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday
Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tiber in Augusta (corner via Tomacelli)
The box office closes an hour earlier
Price: Full € 10,50 and € 8,50 reduced
Capitoline Museums
Born in 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated some statues of brass to the citizens, the Capitoline Museums are the oldest public museums in the world.
The Museum Collections are on display in the two buildings that together with the Senatorio Palace delimit the Piazza del Capitolo: the Palace of the Conservatives and the New Palace. The two buildings are connected by an underground tunnel that houses the Lapping Gallery and leads to the ancient Tabularium, whose monumental arches overlook the Roman Forum.
To its internal is preserved the original bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is worth a pause in the feeding area of the Capitoline Museums, on the charming terrace of Palazzo Caffarelli, the restaurant offers a truly spectacular panorama, with several brunch options, sandwiches or several other dishes, coffee, drink or tea, cocktail or liquor.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday
Hours: 09:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Price: € 6.50 whole and € 4,50 reduced
Cloister of Bramante
The Cloister of Bramante Is an extraordinary example of Renaissance architecture. The work of Donato Bramante (1444-1515) who moved from Milan to Rome after the fall of Ludovico il Moro, becoming the first architect of Pope Julius II, and will be great rival Michelangelo.
It is also part of the complex that comprises the church of Santa Maria della Pace, where the famous Sibille di Raffaello is located. It is a building characterized by its portico and its courtyard surrounded by exhibition spaces on the ground floor and first floor. When visiting this spectacular cloister, the idea of lightness and perfection soon come to mind.
The place gives a special aura to the temporary exhibitions organized there, highlighting the artistic character of the works presented.
Monday to Friday – 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday – 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The box office closes an hour earlier
Colosseum
The huge Roman amphitheatre used for animal shows. The Emperor Titus inaugurated the Colosseum in AD 80 with 100 days of festivities, but his father, Vespasian. Roughly elliptical in shape, measures 188 metres and the short one 156. The building stands on a base of 2 steps, there are 3 floors of arcades and a 4th.
The gallery that constituted a grandstand, which from the oval of the arena rose up to the terrace, could contain about 50,000 people. Between the pilasters, there are 40 square windows, each 2 rectangles of wall. On top each window, about two-thirds of the terrace, are placed three shelves, which form a crown (240 in all). Around, supports the wooden posts that supported the cover awning (Velarium) that protected viewers from the sun in the summer.
To maneuver or “Velarium” an entire detachment of the military fleets of Ravenna and Misenum were necessary. Open daily from 9:00 am to sunset (open in the summer from 07:30am and in the winter closes at 4:30pm).
Price: € 12,00 including entrance to the Palatine.
Domus Aurea
The remains of the luxurious palace of Emperor Nero the most important of Rome. Located in Colle Oppio on the Domus Aurea “House of Gold”.
After the destruction of the first residence in the Palatine in the great fire of AD 64. Nero gave to the architects Célere and Severo the reconstruction of a palace still bigger and sumptuous than the previous one. And that by its wealth was rightly called “Domus Aurea”. The house continued to be inhabited until the end of the century 104 AD. When the fire had destroyed the temple. Later on, from 104 to 109, Emperor Trajan built another massive complex of baths.
The construction of the Terme allowed the Domus Aurea the conservation of some of its environments to the present day.
Reservation required.
Open on weekends
Hours: 09:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 75 min.
Price: € 12,00 (entrance + guide in English or Spanish)
Galleria Borghese
One of the city’s most famous and ancient museums, built in 1613 to guard the art collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The gallery also includes, works by Bernini, Correggio, Titian, Canova, Raphael, and Caravaggio.
Green parks of Rome are some of the prettiest gardens in the world. The Villa Borghese public park consists of 85 hectares of land with panoramic. Galleria Borghese has a priceless collection of paintings and sculptures.
It should be borne in mind that the Galleria Borghese is born as a private collection. And that, the pieces of art and their layout do not follow the didactic criteria (Period, subject). But rather reflects the taste and intentions of its former owners.
The series of sculptures realized for the cardinal by the young Gian Lorenzo Bernini. (Enea, The Mouse of Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne, and David), which seems to invite us to attend their events. Sacred Love and Profane Love of Titian. Caravaggio’s masterpieces. The admirable Princess Pauline Borghese, favorite sister of Napoleão, produced by Canova as Venus Victrix.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday.
Hours: 08:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Price: € 11,00 (reservation required)
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