TOUR
Rome in one day
Prices
1/2 people 550€ total
3/4 people 590€ total
WITH A MERCEDES CAR AND A DRIVER GUIDE
Rome Private Tour from your B&B Gallery Suite in Civitavecchia to Rome and back in one day …pick up at 8:00 am will be driving in a smooth motorway through the country and see the Etruscan Landscapes with a Luxury Mercedes. It will take approx. 80 minutes to get to Rome. Immediately you’ll be ready to visit the Vatican Museum where you will admire the vast collection of masterpieces, including the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter Basilica. Admission to the Museum is 50€ Euros per person and, if you wish to skip the line …. you should better have a licensed Private Guide in Rome from our staff. The Guide is optional of course, but highly recommended to avoid all the lines in Rome! The cost it’s 200€ for the Private tour guide inside the Vatican Museum
The drive will continue along the Tiber River and In 5 minutes driving we will be at the Pantheon, the most well preserved monument you can see today since 27 b.C. still standing !!!, Right after we will stop for lunch (not included) for some Pizza or Pasta, Tiramisu and gelato.
After lunch you will be visiting the Colosseum (I will provide you tickets 60€ per person NOT INCLUDED) and see the Arch of Constantine and the Circus Maximus, the large ancient stadium used for chariot races just like in the movie Ben Hur.
Following the Coliseum, we will drive to Piazza Venezia where you will see the Vittorio Emanuele Monument, dedicated to the first king of Italy, (the wedding-cake of Rome). The Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps will be the next stop, and please, let me tell you that the most famous
Steps in the World are not Spanish but … built by an idea of the French Cardinal Du Polignac and the Italian Engineer De Santis! This will be just driving buy just because it’s a pedestrian area.
If you want personally Marco as your tour guide just ask…
Around 4:00 P.M. we’ll be ready to go back to THE B&B, exhausted but happy… or reimbursed!!!
– good for families with kids
– Gym shoes suggested
The tour has been designed for guests who have already seen the famous attractions and beauties of Rome, and are looking for a truly wonderful and exceptional excursion.
From from your B&B Gallery Suite in Civitavecchia, after approx. 1 hour drive through beautiful surrounding valleys, you will arrive to Tuscania, a very ancient town whose origins can be traced back to the Bronze Age. A significant stability of human settlements dates back to the Etruscan period, as witnessed by the numerous necropolis in this area. Etruscans and their ancient history (IV-V cen.) made Tuscania a powerful city thanks to the creation of a compact road network.
With the rise of the Roman dominion in central Italy, most of the Etruscan settlements disappeared, but Tuscania resisted as one of the most important cities, thanks to its advanced architectural development (bath, aqueducts, etc.). After the Etruscan and Roman periods, this area was first depopulated as a result of the Barbarian invasions and then underwent new urbanization, starting in the eighth century. Over the centuries, some of the most beautiful Italian churches were built in Tuscania.
Take a look at a beautiful view from the Restaurant “La Torre di Lavello”.
The two most important churches represent a temporary architectural passage of the Romanic style: San Pietro Basilica, with its remarkable façade, the stunning rose-window and the crypt, and Santa Maria Maggiore, just below San Pietro, with its three finely decorated portals. Tuscania, with a population of 8.000, appears today in all its splendor to its visitors, offering a historical town Center with its characteristic fourth-fifth century architecture, enriched by fifty-two churches and numerous fountains.
For lunch we will stop in Ceri, an incredible small village built on the top of a hill made of ‘tufo’: since the 9th Century B.C., it preserves the magic atmosphere of those times and, of course, the typical Italian trattoria where you’ll enjoy a dish of Pappardelle Pasta with Wild Boar meatballs, salad, and the local dessert …mmm yummy!
Cerveteri and the Banditaccia Necropoli will be the next stop. With your tour guide, you’ll visit the tombs of the Etruscans and the beautiful frescos inside. You’ll be able to walk in and discover in the dark the city of death carved into the “tufo rock” 2.500 years ago!
Back to from your B&B Gallery Suite in Civitavecchia around 5pm
– good for families with kids
– Gym shoes suggested
30 minutes From from your B&B Gallery Suite in Civitavecchia there is one of the most beautiful Castles you can see in Rome: the Odescalchi Orsini Castle. If you have ever seen the Marcello Theatre in Rome, probably you’ve asked yourself: ‘who are those crazy people who made these apartments above the last ring of the Theatre??’, well … during the 15th century they wanted to have this exclusive residence and … they made it! eh eh…with “power and money” everything is allowed.
The Tour inside the castle is in English and will take about one hour: you will see towers, the library of the Pope Sisto IV (the Pope who wanted the Sistine Chapel) and the Ceaser’s Dancing Hall. The Medici Family, the Orsini Family, the Odescalchi Family will offer you a vision of all the beautiful furniture and weapons used by the soldiers.
The place is used by many VIPs for weddings like: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but the best attraction is discovering with us the secrets of the Castle …. hey, no ghost, don’t worry!
For lunch we will stop in Ceri, an incredible small village built on the top of a hill made of ‘tufo’, from the 9th Century B.C. until today preserves the magic atmosphere of those times and, of course, the typical Italian trattoria where you’ll enjoy a dish of Pappardelle Pasta with Wild Boar meatballs, salad, and the local dessert …mmm yummy!
After your lunch, with your Tour Guide you will expore the Necropolis of “La Banditaccia” near Cerveteri.
Thousands of tombs exist in the vast cemetery of Cerveteri: they are organized in a city-like plan, with ‘streets’, small squares and ‘neighbourhoods’. The tombs are of different types depending on period, family status and other criteria. The earliest known are series of rock-cut trenches holding pottery ossuaries containing the ashes of the deceased. Most famous are the tumuli – tombs often containing more than one tomb under an imposing mound. A famous example is known as the ‘Hut Shaped Tomb’, from the 4th century. Some of those have electricity and we can see inside all frescos intact because protected by an “under-pressure door” like the “Tomba dei Rilievi”, other tombs instead must be discovered with a torch that we will bring with us…an adventure like in Indiana Jones Movie!!
Back to from your B&B Gallery Suite in Civitavecchia around 5pm
– good for families with kids
– Gym shoes suggested