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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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 Tips for tourists
Mailboxes in Italy are red and are attached to walls. The left slot is only for letters intended for the city; the right slot for all others destinations.
The main Post Office of Rome is at Piazza San Silvestro 19 tel. 06/6771, between Via del Corso and Piazza di Spagna. It's open Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm and on Saturday from 9am to 2pm. To claim mail addresses to you in care of this central office, with fermo posta written after the name and address of the post office, simply present your passport as identification. Stamps francobolli can be purchased at tabacchi (tobacconist).
Vatican City mailboxes are blue, and you can buy Vatican stamps at the Vatican City Post Office, adjacent to the information office in St. Peter's Square. It's open Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 6pm and on Saturday from 8:30am to 6pm. Letters mailed at Vatican City reach North America far more quickly than does mail sent from within Rome for the same cost. With both the Vatican and the Italian mail, letters and postcards to the U.S. cost about € 1.
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(Lucca 1708 - Rome 1787)

After early training in drawing with his father, a goldsmith, Batoni was at Rome in 1727, where he was assisted financially by patrons of the arts from Lucca. He made drawings of ancient statues which he sold to foreigners. He studied Raphael and the great XVII century Classicists, from whom he learned balanced naturalness. Starting as collaborator of successful landscape artists, specializing in painting figures, by the middle of the century Batoni had become one of the most successful artist in Rome. He was ranked on the same level as Mengs, with whom he contended the title of first painter of the neo-classical school. Active in religious and mythological painting, a portrait painter of international fame, in great demand by foreigners visiting Rome, he was a highly cultivated but never programmatic artist He combines sensual irony with a search for easy elegance.

(From Italian Art Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).

POMPEO BATONI - (Lucca 1708 - Rome 1787) After early training in drawing with his father, a goldsmith, Batoni was...

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These baths were begun by Septimius Severus in 206 and were finished by his son Antoninus Caracalla in 216. The model for this bathing complex were the baths of Trajan. Nevertheless the works over this complex construction continued till Alexandrus Severus and restoration works till Theodorus. The baths were rich with works of art and apart from the baths contained gyms, libraries, entertainment programs and a stadium for sport competitions. Terme di Caracalla were the 2nd by the size after the Terme di Diocletiano. The baths were fed by a branch of the Acqua Marcia, an aqueduct built specially for this purpose in 212-217.
Roman citizens had free access to the baths, which could accommodate some 1600 bathers at one time (men and women bathed nude, but separately and at different times of the day). The baths were abandoned in the 6th century after the Goths destroyed the aqueduct  supplying them with water. All the zone was abandoned in the 10th century and the baths became an endless source of building material, as well as numerous decorations were taken away and decorate now different places of Italy, like for example two big granite basins adapted for the fountains in front of Palazzo Farnese in Rome. From 1937 to 1993 opera performances were given here in the summer. 
BATHS OF CARACALLA - These baths were begun by Septimius Severus in 206 and were finished by his son Antoninus Caracalla ...