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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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(Cortona 1883 - Paris 1966)

Already a divisionist painter in Rome, a friend of Balla and Boccioni, Severini moved to Paris in 1906, resolved to become a versatile, refined peintre de la vie moderne. He adhered to Futurism at the very start of the movement, participating in the group's first exhibitions; lingering ,in his paintings, on the places and customs that characterized the modernity of the metropolis; fervently exploring bold new painting techniques. He experimented with collages, multi-materials, and composition of words. In the World War I years his attitude changed even more drastically than that of the other Futurists. The return to an art reminiscent of tradition and traditional techniques signified for him, having declared the avant garde experience concluded, a kind of religious issue, a conversion. The profession of artist had become both popular and consecrated.    

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


GINO SEVERINI - (Cortona 1883 - Paris 1966) Already a divisionist painter in Rome, a friend of Balla and Boccioni...

 Monuments
After the earthquake in the middle of the 9th century which destroyed S.Maria Antiqua in the Forum, it was abandoned and its diaconate moved to the Oratory of St peter and St Paul, built in 757-767 by pope St.Paul I. Thus, the oratory became the church Santa Maria Nova; In the 12th century it was enlarged, it was added an apse mosaic and a 42m high bell-tower. The new consecration took place in 1161, and the church was reconstructed in 1216 by Honorius III. The facade is by Carlo Lombardi, created during the reconstruction of 1615. 
Santa Francesca Romana (Francesca Buzzi) founded the Congregation of Oblates here in 1421, which she herself joined after her husband died in 1436. She was canonized in 1608 and is the patron of motorists. 
Interior consists of a big decorated hall with the side chapels. In the church are the tombs of painter Gentile da Fabriano, cardinal Marino Bulcani, Antonio da Rio and Gregory XI. The crypt conserves the body of St. Francesca and a 17th century bas-relief representing the saint and an angel. The confessio is by G.L.Bernini (1638-1649); the apse mosaic dates from 1161 and represents Vergine in trono con il Bambino, the statues on both sides from it are by school of Bernini. 
The sacristy preserves a 6th century colossal painting Vergine col Bambino, which may have come from S.Maria Antiqua, and it is one of the most ancient  Christian paintings in existence. 
There are two stones close to the tomb of Gregory XI, that have the imprint of the knees of St Peter, while he would pray for punishment if Simon Magus, who was demonstrating his wizardry by flying. According to this legend Simon fell down due to the power of the St Peter's pray. The site of his fall is not far from the stones. 
The church St. Maria Nova is the only surviving example of Christian intervention in the Forum, because all the other constructions that grew during the centuries over the ancient imperial temples and basilicas were destroyed in the 20th century, to restitute the Forum its original appearence.CHURCH OF S. MARIA NOVA - After the earthquake in the middle of the 9th century which destroyed S.Maria Antiqua in the Forum, ...