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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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 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.
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( Padova 1960 )

Involved first in the sphere of anti- functional design, in the late Eighties Cattelan transferred his tendency toward provocation to a specifically artistic/ figurative activity. His initiatives aim to bring to light concealed secrets, unwritten rules, the subtly discriminatory attitudes of the art system, based on principles of industrial marketing; or refer to dramatic collective episodes in the historical/cultural context surrounding them. Dating from 1994 is an installation with rubble taken from the Milan Contemporary Art Pavilion, severely damaged by Mafia bombs; and from 1995 is an installation in neon with the star of the Reds Brigades. Cattelan alternates the role of artist with that of cultural promoter. Co-editor of a review - ''Permanent Foods''- he is at present one of the curators of the First Biennale of the Tropics.

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

MAURIZIO CATTELAN - ( Padova 1960 ) Involved first in the sphere of anti- functional design, in the late Eighties Cat...

 Monuments
According to a legend the church grew on the site of cenoby in which the mother of St Gregory I Magno, St Silvia, lived and from where she would daily send to her son living on Celio Hill, the vegetable dishes picked and prepared by herself. 
But according to historical and archeological proves the church was founded in the 7th century by oriental monks followers of St. Saba, desired to reconstruct on the new site their convent in Jerusalem, which was founded by St Saba in the 5th century and destroyed by Arabs. 
The monks had founded other monasteries in Rome and built an oratory here, which in the 10th century was transformed in a church by monks Benedictines, who in that epoch substituted the monks from Jerusalem; in the 12th century Benedictines were replaces by another religious order. The latter restored the construction, and decorated it with marbles. In 1453 by the order of cardinal Francesco Piccolomini an ample loggia over the portico was built. The portico on pilasters is very rich with the ancient sarcophaguses and other archeological material.
The beautiful doorway (1205) is by Giacomo, father of Cosma, the founder of the famous dynasty of marble-mosaic-makers Cosmati. The bell-tower on the left of the facade is nearly visible because it is only a part of the original campanile, destroyed centuries ago. 
Interior is on a basilican plan with a nave separated from the aisles by 14 columns. The nave is covered by beautiful Cosmatesque decorations. To them is also attributed schola cantorum, found during the excavations of 1909. On the left could be found the so called 3rd aisle, which must have been a hall of the adjoining convent; it contains the frescoes of the 13th century. The central apse was probably decorated by mosaics, but they were lost and substituted with the simple frescoes in 1575. The presbytery preserves a marble cathedra with a beautiful Cosmatesque tondo, and a ciborium composed of four marble columns and octagonal cover. The ancient oratory contains the fragments of the 9th-10th century paintings.
CHURCH OF S. SABA - According to a legend the church grew on the site of cenoby in which the mother of St Gregory I Magn...