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There is no better way to explore the Eternal City than with a Roman guide!
Your professional guide will allow you to experience Rome through the centuries - past and present, the pagan and the Christian, art and everyday life - and understand how all are inextricably combined.

Your guide can be with you for a half or a full day; your tour can be walking or by limo, minibus or public transport. In addition to tour and sightseeing services, your guide can help you with the language, the food and the shopping. Our guides are Romans who can show you typical aspects of local life. Guides know, and will show you, the real dimension of a city you will love and never forget. Our tours in Rome and our excursions out of the city are designed for the first time visitor, as well as the returning traveler who seeks a deeper understanding of Rome.

Most of the tours within the historical center of Rome are walking tours; however, we will provide our clients with transportation by limo, minibus, or bus if the service is needed or requested.

All tours are private - for your party only!

No queues to get into the Vatican or Coliseum!

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(Andrea de Chirico, Athens 1891- Rome 1952)


Brother of Giorgio de Chirico, he began his career as musician and writer. After a classical education in Greece he lived first in Munich and then, in 1910, in Paris. Here he participated in avant garde figurative, literary and musical circles, displaying his bizarre talent in singular musical performances. In 1916 he was at Ferrara with his brother, engaged in weaving a complex fabric or historical, biographical and cultural references around metaphysical compositions. In post-war period he was a critic for the most important art review of the time, ''Valori Plastici'' (for which De Chirico, Carrà and Savinio himself were the most deeply committed and authoritative voices.)Savinio's first one-man show in 1927 at Paris, where he was then living, aroused immediate attention for an artist whom the classicists of ''Mediterranean'' inspiration and the surrealists contented from opposing positions.    

(From Italian Art Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
ALBERTO SAVINIO - (Andrea de Chirico, Athens 1891- Rome 1952) Brother of Giorgio de Chirico, he began his career ...

 Monuments
This is one of the places offering a wonderful view on Rome and is located right in front of the Chiesa della Trinita' dei Monti. Usually it is all occupied by artists working here during the day. 
In the middle of the square is an obelisk, a Roman imitation of Imperial epoch of the Egyptian obelisks. It was erected here in 1789 by the wish of Pius VI. The obelisk is 13m high, but with the base reaches 30m. On the top is a symbol of the French kings. The obelisk bears the name Obelisco Sallustiano, as it was found in the Gardens of Sallust (close to the Lutheran church in Via Sicilia), where it was placed in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. 
The hieroglyphs were engraved in Rome repeating the manner of the obelisk on Piazza del Popolo (some of them were turned upside-down by mistake). After centuries spent under the ground, the monument was acquired by Clement XII in 1734 from the Ludovisi, who became the owners of the territory of ancient Gardens of Sallust, and erected it first in front of St John Lateran, but it was not the best solution, because of disproportion between the impressive facade of the basilica and a little obelisk. Thus, it was taken away from Piazza di S.Giovanni and some decades later, Pius VI found the new and the ultimate place for it, in front of Chiesa della Trinita' dei Monti. 
From Piazza della trinita dei Monti two streets begin: Via Sistina and Via Gregoriana. On the angle between them is a palace named Palazzo Zuccari, as it was built by Federico Zuccari as a seat of Academy and which later was inhabited by the Queen of Poland. The palace is noted for the windows and a door on Via Gregoriana designed in form of the mouths of wild animals, that is why it was also called Casa dei Mostri (House of Monsters). In 1900 it was bought by Enrichetta Hertz, who left her library, with the palace for the seat of Biblioteca Hertziana, a cultural center specialized in history of medieval and modern art, founded in 1913. It is now one of the most famous art history libraries in the country. From www.italycyberguide.com 
PIAZZA TRINITA' DEI MONTI - This is one of the places offering a wonderful view on Rome and is located right in front of the Chi...