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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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The consulate of your country is the place to turn. Although consular officials cannot interfere in the Italian legal process, they can inform you of your rights and provide a list of attorney out of pocket-there's no free legal assistance. If you're arrested for a drug offence, about all the consulate will do is notify a lawyer and perhaps inform your family.
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(Tommaso di Giovanni Cassai, San Giovanni Valdarno 1401-Rome1428)

We have had a very great loss, declared Brunelleschi upon hearing that Masaccio had died in Rome at the age of twenty-six in mysterious circumstances, after having followed Masolino there. Pure without ornament, perceptively noted Cristoforo Landino in 1481 in regard to the artist, reflecting Vitruvius' definition of the Doric column (sine ornatu, nudam specem). Still debated is the chronology of the rare surviving works by this revolutionary artist, called Giotto reborn for the plastic solidity of his figures, an ideal reflection of the great 14th century painter. Extraordinary also for having immediately assimilated the experimentation of Brunelleschi, Masaccio was the first to translate into painting the new rules on perspective, with a rigorous construction of space always dominated by the human presence.

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

MASACCIO - (Tommaso di Giovanni Cassai, San Giovanni Valdarno 1401-Rome1428) "We have had a very great loss"...

 Monuments
It is the central palace in Piazza del Campidogio. Its name derives from the fact that it was a seat of Roman Senate till 1870, when became the official seat of Comune di Roma and the Mayor of Rome. On the remains of the ancient Tabularium in the 11th century was built a fortress by the Corsi, and the Senate was probably installed here in 1143. The medieval castle with four towers was renewed in the 13th-14th centuries, and redesigned by Michelangelo in the 16th century. The present aspect of the palace is a modification of Michelanelo's design by G.Della Porta in 1582-1606.
In front of the double stair-case, with converging flights, is a fountain with two colossal statues (2nd century A.D.) of the Tiber (right) and Nile (left) coming from the Baths of Constantine in Quirinal Hill; in the recess is a porphyry statue of Minerva, Dea Roma (Goddess of Rome). The palace is crowned by a bell-tower, projected by M.Longhi in 1578-1582, with a clock, a statue of Minerva, and a gilded cross; two bells (1803-1804) replace the famous major bell called Patarina, which has been installed in 1200 to summon the people to Parlamento. In 1827-1935 this bell-tower housed an Astronomic Observatory, which now is located on Monte Mario.
Interior: Council Chamber (with a statue of Julius Caesar), Sala delle Bandiere (Hall of the Flags), Sala della Protomoteca (with large collection of busts of famous people picked by Pius VII), Great Hall. 
Beneath the palace: Tabularium, or depository of the State archives, its great blocks of porous tufa built into the unhewn rock dominate the view of the hill from the Forum, erected in 78 b.C.. Originally it was a building with at least two floors  and eight arches facing the Forum. Still existing staircase connected it with the level of Forum. The vast hall on the first floor in the Middle Ages was used as a store of sole and a prison.  From www.italycyberguide.com
PALAZZO SENATORIO - It is the central palace in Piazza del Campidogio. Its name derives from the fact that it was a seat...