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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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Major radio and television broadcast are on RAI, the Italian state radio and TV network. Occasionally during the tourist season it will broadcast special programs in English; look in the radio and TV guide sections of local newspapers. Vatican Radio also carries foreign-language religious news programs, often in English. Short wave transistor radios pick up broadcasts from the BBC (Britain), Voice of America (United States), and CBC (Canada). Hotels often have TVs in the bedrooms with satellite programs.
RADIO/TV - Major radio and television broadcast are on RAI, the Italian state radio and TV network. Occasionall...
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(Donato di Pascuccio di Antonio, Monte Asdruvaldo, Pesaro, 1444-Rome 1514)

Probably a collaborator of Piero della Francesca (he may have painted the background of the Montefeltro Altarpiece now at Brera Museum), Donato seems to have trained in the Urbino milieu and worked in Perugia and Ferrara. One of the most important architects and painters of the early Renaissance, he undoubtedly decorated the Palazzo del Podestà in Bergamo in 1477. Of this undertaking, fragments of frescoes with philosophers and architectural perspectives, now in Bergamo Civic Museum, remain. From 1480 to 1492 he designed notable buildings such as Santa Maria presso San Satiro in Milan and the Duomo of Pavia. At Rome from 1490, he constructed works of fundamental importance such as the courtyard of Santa Maria della Pace (1500) and the Vatican Belvedere (1504-1505). He also designed the new St. Peter's, later modified by Michelangelo and others.

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

DONATO BRAMANTE - (Donato di Pascuccio di Antonio, Monte Asdruvaldo, Pesaro, 1444-Rome 1514) Probably a collaborato...

 Monuments
Pietro Bernini, father of Gian Lorenzo, designed the characteristic fountain, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII Barberini. Stories tell that Bernini was inspired by an old boat beached during the overflowing of the river Tiber in 1598. It was constructed at ground level to compensate the low pressure of the acqueduct of the Acque Vergine at that time. It was decorated on the inside by two Barberini  sun mouths sprouting water out in a fan. Two coats-of-arms of Urban VIII may be seen externally. Some irony may be noted, knowing that this type of boat was usually used for the transportation of wine.
From Bruno Balestrini; www.thais.it
FOUNTAIN OF THE SINKING BOAT - Pietro Bernini, father of Gian Lorenzo, designed the characteristic fountain, commissioned by Pope U...