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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!

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Some antiques, regardless of private ownership or foreign origin, are considered part of the patrimony of Italy and may not be exported. So before you buy that Etruscan vase find out whether you can take it with you or whether you will have to return to Rome yearly to visit it! ANTIQUES - Some antiques, regardless of private ownership or foreign origin, are considered part of the patrimo...
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(Treviso 1889 - Milan 1947) After training in Munich at the school of the German sculptor Adolf Hildebrand, Martini soon came into contact with the young Italian artists who were promoting a renewal in national art in the years prior to World War I. A temperamental artist, extremely sensitive to materials, Martini was a friend of Gino Rossi, with whom he traveled in 1912 to Paris, where he met Modigliani and Boccioni. His first sculptures show a provocatory archaicizing plastic orientation: severely two-dimensional, they frequently recur to polychrome effects. In the Twenties Martini Joined the general trend toward a return to tradition, distinguishing himself, however, for irony, agility and eclectic capacity to combine or reinterpret sources within a context, the Italian art world of the time, dominated by the hyperstylistic attitude of sculptors purposely dedicated to imitating classic archeological models. (From Italian Art Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti). ARTURO MARTINI - (Treviso 1889 - Milan 1947) After training in Munich at the school of the German sculptor Adolf H...

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It took the name from the church located here S.Maria sopra Minerva. In the middle is a funny monument compound of a little marble elephant supporting 6m high Egyptian obelisk which belonged to the Temple of Isis, that formerly stood nearby. It was designed by G.L.Bernini and executed by E.Ferrata in 1667. The square is surrounded by the church, its ex-convent, Ecclesiastic Academy, and the Hotel Minerva. The ex-convent of Dominicans was built in the 16th century by wish of Vincenzo Giustiniani, president of the Order, and enlarged in 1656. Here Sant'Uffizio seats took place weekly and a tribunal was held in Sala Galileiana (named after G.Galilei's trail). After 1870 the palace of convent passed to Italian State and became a seat of a Ministry of Education. The cloister inside of it is still a property of Dominicans. The part of the ex-convent on Via di S.Ignazio is a seat of Biblioteca Casanatense. It was left to Dominican order in 1698 by cardinal Girolamo Casanate, together with the funds to build a special construction adjoining the convent and serving the needs of library, which was open in 1701. In 1870 it passed to the Italian State together with the convent. Inside is a reading hall attributed to C.Fontana, which is the largest reading hall in Italy. The library is specialized in theology, classic philosophy and history of Rome, it includes 350,000 volumes, 100,000 booklets, 2000 incunabula, a big collection of prints and etchings from the 16th to 19th centuries. Accademia Pontificia Ecclesiastica takes its origins from the ecclesiastic Colleges for studies, that gave the special religious education to all the classes of society. The academy was built in 1701 by wish of Clement XI with the name Accademia dei nobili ecclesiastici, i.e. Academy of noble clergymen, destined to form from the aristocratic youth the future representatives of the Church and members of Ecclesiastic government. In the beginning of the 20th century the Academy was reformed and began the education of young priests destined for missionary and diplomatic work all over the world, without distinction of social position, nationality and race. The palace of the Academy was built in the beginning of the 16th century by a Roman conservator Mario Peruschi and a century later passed to the Severoli, from who took the name. In the beginning of the 18th century it was acquired by the Pope for his Academy and in the end of the 19th century it was completely reconstructed and given its present aspect. Albergo Minerva, one of the most important hotels in papal Rome, which hosted a series of celebrated personalities, is located in 19th century Palazzo Fonseca. From www.italycyberguide.com PIAZZA DELLA MINERVA - It took the name from the church located here S.Maria sopra Minerva. In the middle is a funny monume...
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