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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!


 Tips for tourists
Everyone is required to have a permesso di soggiorno to stay in Italy. Hotels automatically do this for paying guests. Those wishing to stay longer must register at the Questura, Via Genova 2 or at Via San Vitale 15. Take your passport and photocopy of the first 3 pages, 3passport photos, and either € 15 or carta bollata of the equivalent amount bought at a tabaccaio and some proof of income (a letter from your employer on office letterhead is usually sufficient). Lines are long and this procedure may take several attempts before actual success. P.S. if you forget photos, they have a machine on the premises.
FOREIGNER'S REGISTRATION - Everyone is required to have a "permesso di soggiorno" to stay in Italy. Hotels automatically do thi...
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 Artists
( Possagno, Treviso, 1757 - Venice 1822)  

After an apprenticeship in the Venetian workshop of Giuseppe Bernardi, Canova was in Rome in 1799. A young artist who frequented distinguished intellectual circles - Quatremère de Quincy and Gavin Hamilton, archaeologists and art critics, were his friends - he met with success already in 1787, when his Funerary Monument to Clement XIV was inaugurated in the Basilica dei Santi Apostoli in Rome. From this time on, the production of works of mythological subject was interwoven, in the artist's career, with that of funerary monuments. The hint of sensuality in the former won him the admiration of his contemporaries, while the latter provided occasions for civic commemoration or solemn elegy. At the peak of his fame in the Napoleonic era, Canova was assigned discreet diplomatic and cultural functions at the downfall of Napoleon. In 1815 he journeyed to London to see the marbles from the Parthenon.

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

ANTONIO CANOVA - ( Possagno, Treviso, 1757 - Venice 1822) After an apprenticeship in the Venetian workshop of Gi...

 Monuments
Continuing a medieval tradition of missionary organizations all over Europe, in 1627 a Congregation of Propaganda Fide was founded by Pope Urban VIII. The palace on Piazza di Spagna was acquired for this congregation in 1625, and housed the College, which prepares for missionary work the Catholic priests from all over the world. From 1921, the palace is occupied only by the Congregation, because the college moved to another big construction created by Pius XI on Gianiculum Hill.
Palazzo di Propaganda Fide was reconstructed and restored several times with the participation of G.L.Bernini in 1644 (the facade on Piazza di Spagna) and F.Borromini in 1655 (the other facades). 
The Palace stands along the old Via Due Macelli, which is a part of the straight tract compound of Via del Babuino and Via Due Macelli. It was laid out by Paul III and was originally named Via Paolina. Later the name changed due to a number of butcher's shops (macellerie) located here. The greatest part of the street is dominated by the monumental architecture of the Umbertine's epoch. From www.italycyberguide.com 
PALAZZO PROPAGANDA FIDE - Continuing a medieval tradition of missionary organizations all over Europe, in 1627 a Congregation ...