A very special tour to discover the origins of the Roman culinary tradition. We will visit the Jewish Ghetto, where there is evidence of a fish market among the Roman ruins, and the Trastevere [...]
A tour to the awesome Villa designed by the architect and painter Baldassarre Peruzzi for Agostino Chigi, a rich banker of Pope Julius II. The interior was decorated by some of the best Renaissance [...]
Not many tourists know that food also played a key role in the Vatican City: for example, do you know that a very famous painting in the Vatican Pinacoteca (Art Gallery) portrays the author [...]
We will visit some of the best and well-known sites in Rome where we will see how food and wine traditions have always been strongly linked to Italian art and archaelogy. At the end of [...]
Hop on the Metro to experience a modern vision of Rome envisioned as the new civic center under Mussolini’s Fascist regime, which has gracefully transformed into a post-war business district and leafy residential quarter, [...]
A stroll through the medieval streets of the first "ghetto" (dialect for "the discarded"), centering on the role of Jews in the city of Rome since the 2nd century BC and their eventual confinement [...]
Garbatella, the unique and charming 1920s worker-housing district just beyond Rome’s ancient walls, feels like a small village in the heart of the city. Visit this popular housing and hip commercial enclave, along with [...]
Cross the river to the winding streets of one of Rome's oldest and most charming neighborhoods, including the early-Christian church S. Maria in Trastevere, and winding uphill to Bramante's Tempietto, and the spectacular Acqua [...]
From the new covered market (a Rome favorite), through the worker housing district of the early 20th century, the former slaughterhouses now converted to fair trade market and kids' convention halls, to the visible [...]
See the convergence of Italian post-World War II optimism and sample Rome’s cutting edge contemporary art and design scene in this historic neighborhood, containing masterpieces by Pier Luigi Nervi, the 1960 Olympic Village, Renzo [...]