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Angels & Demons tour - Jewish tour of Rome -
Baroque Rome tour - Tours of Rome off the beaten path and classic
Rome - Rome tour with an English speaking driver-guide by
private car or minivan for small groups. |
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Half-day tours off the beaten path, for
connoisseurs and first timers! |
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Rome, is surely a surprising
city. You can keep coming and, time after time, you'll keep
discovering new interesting places. The more you come, the more
you understand Rome and enjoy it. Those who've already seen all
the highlights, can enjoy seeing something different. Though it
doesn't really make a lot of sense to list an itinerary for a
tour off the beaten track, since when you go off the beaten
track you're free to go anywhere you want, these "theme"
itineraries will give you an idea of what I can show you. Most of art in Rome is
housed in churches, and they
are open in the morning
until 12:30pm and the
re-open in the afternoon at
3:30 pm to close at 6:00pm.
Therefore the best time to
start these tours at 8:30 am
or 3:00pm. |
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You can tour
around in a Mercedes if you want, but the best way to tour Rome off the
beaten track is to tour in a golf cart! Drive the back streets
and stop anywhere! |
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We can practically drive you anywhere and get you really close
to the places to visit. You can see a lot of the sites without
even getting out of the cart! You can take your pictures any
time you like and stop practically anywhere you want. You drive
through the narrow backstreets and areas where only pedestrians
and bicycles are allowed and get to see the real Rome! You can
stop for a great ice cream at a little out-of-the-way place
instead of spending a fortune and buy crap from vendors outside
the Colosseum. Enjoy having your lunch at an authentic little
trattoria with the locals, instead of the touristy
restaurants where they serve you frozen food.
Touring Rome by electric golf cart you drive to the main
attractions via the old and narrow streets, almost deserted by
the average tourist, and see the real Rome.
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A memorable experience, a tour youll always
remember! |
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description of the itinerary for "Angels & Demons', half-day tour: |
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The places mentioned in
the book are: the
Pantheon,
Piazza del Popolo
and Santa Maria
del Popolo, Santa Maria della Vittoria, St. Peter's Square, Tiber
River near
Tiber Island
(which is really called the
island of St. Bartholomew,
but no one seems remember that),
Piazza Navona,
the
"Passetto" and
Castel
Sant'Angelo. I
don't think I'm leaving something out, or am I? Oh yes! The
Tomb of Peter,
the Sistine
Chapel and the
Pope's Private
Residence. Well,
Benny doesn't allow me to bring visitors in any more, after he found
some chewed gum on his chair, and the
Vatican
Museums
- Sistine Chapel - St. Peter's
is a separate tour, for it alone takes four hours.
More sites and curiosities,
less known than the places listed above, will be brought to
your attention while driving.
Remember: you'll
always see more than you'll be expecting to see! |
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Here's how it goes: we
start from Piazza
del Popolo and
Santa Maria del
Popolo church
which is where the
Chigi Chapel,
the one with the "pyramids", is located. Next we move to
St. Peter's Square
stopping to look at the
Castel Sant'Angelo
and the
"Passetto", the
suspended walkway that connect the castle with the Residence on the
way there. We'll then follow the
Tiber River
to Tiber Island,
we'll stop to take a look and eventually walk on it. Crossing the
river again we arrive to
Piazza Navona
and next to the
Pantheon.
Once there we'll also visit the church of
Santa Maria Sopra
Minerva, which is
right behind it and very interesting. Then we go to
and
then to Santa
Maria della Vittoria
to see the
"Ecstasy of St. Therese".
Once there, how could we not visit the very near church of
Santa Maria Degli Angeli,
one of the most interesting churches in Rome?
The sites will not come
exactly in this order, we'll start or end from the one that will be
the closest to the hotel where you'll be staying. For example,
should you be staying at the Hotel De Russie, which is right across
from Santa Maria
del Popolo it
would make more sense to start the tour from there, or end it there.
After all we're doing a tour of Rome, and not re-enacting the story.
Please remember that
basically you hire a driver/guide for 4 or 8 hours and you're free
to change anything, |
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Rates per vehicle for this
half-day tours:
sedan (1/4 persons) 260 ;
minivan (4 persons) 295 ;
minivan (5/6 persons) 315 ;
minivan (7/8 persons) 350 |
These rates include:
4 hours of touring (including
pick up and drop off)
in the requested vehicle conducted by experienced driving guide and
VAT (value added tax).
Rates do not include
entrance fees or meals and drinks. |
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Ancient Rome
off the beaten path, half-day tour. |
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Let me take you to see
the Roman Aqueducts and tell you how they worked. Let's walk on the
ancient cobblestones and feel history come into us from under our
feet. Let's go and see a Roman prison and see how it was used. Find
out how the Romans built their walls, how they buried their dead,
how they honored their conquerors, what they ate, how they traveled,
how they bathed and even where they urinated!
Let me take you into my
own "Discovery Channel". |
Baker's tomb |
Fountain on Aventine |
Gallieno's Arch |
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description of the itinerary for "Ancient Rome",
half-day tour: |
| Santa Maria Degli
Angeli, Piazza Vittorio (Julian Aqueduct), Porta Maggiore (Aqueducts,
walls and Tomb of the Baker), Santa Croce (amphitheatre), Appian
Gate (walk on the Aurelian Walls) St. Paul's Gate and Pyramid, Testaccio (mount of pottery), St. Paul's
ouside the Walls, Mamertine Prison, Trajan's
Market, Roman Condominium, Theatre of Marcellus and surroundings
ruins. |
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More sites and
curiosities will be brought to
your attention while driving.
Remember: you'll
always see more than you'll be expecting to see! |
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Let's say that if you're
staying in any of the hotels in the city center, we can start from
Santa Maria Degli Angeli.
The general tourist never plans to visit the church of
Santa Maria Degli
Angeli, but if he
knew that its architect was
Michelangelo,
then maybe he would go and take a look. He would admire
Michelangelo's architecture... though all he did was put a roof over
Roman ruins that were still in good state of conservation! The
church in fact consists in the "Tepidarium" of the Baths of
Diocletian which in the 15th Century was still in good shape. Then
we go see the ruins of the terminal of the Julian Aqueduct in Piazza
Vittorio and then continue to the magnificent Porta Maggiore, which
is the highest point in the East side of Rome and most of the
aqueducts came into the city from that side. Not far from there we
can see that the Emperor Aurelian was in a hurry when he had the
walls built and all the buildings that where on the way where
incorporated in them, even an amphitheatre, another Colosseum, but
smaller. We can then go to the Appian gate and visit the little
museum that they have there and walk on the Walls of Rome. Following
the walls we'll then come to St. Paul's Gate and the Pyramid, tomb
of an ancient Roman, Caius Cestius, who lived his life in Egipt.
Nearby we'll see the hill that was formed by the broken pottery,
laid down in precise order, by the Romans. We'll also pass by an
original Roman urinal! |
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Rates per vehicle for this
half-day tours:
sedan (1/4 persons) 260 ;
minivan (4 persons) 295 ;
minivan (5/6 persons) 315 ;
minivan (7/8 persons) 350 |
These rates include:
4 hours of touring (including
pick up and drop off)
in the requested vehicle conducted by experienced driving guide and
VAT (value added tax).
Rates do not include
entrance fees or meals and drinks. |
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Jewish Heritage
off the beaten path, half-day tour. |
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The presence
of the Jews in Rome goes as far back as 161 B.C.E., when
a delegation was sent to Rome by Judah Maccabee, so they
have been here longer than any other community or
ethnical group. Unfortunately there aren't any ruins,
except for the synagogue in Ostia, that testify the
Jewish presence in the classic era, but walking around
the Ghetto you, besides familiarizing with a very
romantic part of Rome, you'll really feel the Jewish
presence in Rome. |
A street in the Ghetto |
The Main Square |
The Synagogue |
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Short
description of the itinerary for
"Jewish Heritage",
half-day tour: |
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This tour takes 4 hours and it includes the visit of the
Synagogue when it is open. You'll be met at your
hotel and driven to the Ghetto. We'll go for a walk
around the quaint streets and the visit the Synagogue.
after the tour of the Temple we'll walk to the Tiber
Island and then get back in the car to drive to the
Aventine Hill and the Catacombs. |
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More sites and
curiosities will be brought to
your attention while driving.
Remember:
you'll
always see more than you'll be expecting to see! |
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More about this tour: |
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After meeting at you hotel and having driven to the
Ghetto, if the Synagogue is open and our arrival at the
Ghetto coincides when the starting of the tour of the
Temple, we'll tour the place, otherwise we'll go for our
walk through the streets and visit the Schul and the
walk. After all this we'll drive to the Aventine Hill
where anciently the Jews of Rome lived and where they
had their cemetery. Today from there you can see a great
view of the Circus Maximus and the Palatine Hill,
besides visiting one of the most famous Roman
curiosities the Key Hole. Then we drive to the
Catacombs. Unfortunately the Jewish ones are open
regularly like the Christian ones, so these we'll be the
ones we'll visit. Not many know that the Catacombs where
started by the Jews and the Christian Catacombs are just
like the Jewish ones used to be except for the
decorations. Unless you do this tour on a Sunday, you'll
get a private tour of the Catacombs without having to
group up like everyone else does. |
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Rates per vehicle for this
half-day tours:
sedan (1/4 persons) 260 ;
minivan (4 persons) 295 ;
minivan (5/6 persons) 315 ;
minivan (7/8 persons) 350 |
These rates
include:
4 hours
of touring (including
pick up and drop off)
in the requested vehicle conducted by experienced
driving guide and VAT (value added tax).
Rates do not
include entrance fees or meals and drinks. |
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Baroque
Rome
off the beaten path, half-day tour. |
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No other city celebrates the Baroque style like Rome
does. Bernini was the ruler in the Baroque era, But
what were the others, and in particular his rival
Borromini, doing? You see that during the ordinary tour of Rome
in places like St: Peter's, Piazza Navona or the
Trevi Fountain, but would you like to go with me and
look for other treasures of the baroque style house
in out-the-way churches, secondary streets and
piazzas? |
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