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1 Day:
Half day panoramic guided visit of Rome.
2 Day:
Full day guided visit of the city. In the morning, you'll visit
Antique Rome with Piazza Venezia, the Campidoglio, the
Roman Forum, the Colosseum. In the afternoon, the visit continues
with the famous Roman "piazze": Piazza Navona, Piazza di Spagna,
Trinità dei Monti, Pantheon.
3 Day:
Today you'll discover Catholic Rome: the Vatican
with St. Peter's Square and Basilica, St. John Lateran, St.
Mary Major. The afternoon is at your disposal for further visits
or shopping (we suggest: Vatican Museums).
4 Day:
Full day Excursion to Tivoli, where you will visit the
renowned Villa d'Este, and the Roman Castles, such as
Castelgandolfo, Rocca di Papa, Frascati. Wine tasting.Return
to Rome in the late afternoon.
5 Day:
At disposal for optional excursions and departure.
IF YOU WISH TO PROLONGE YOUR STAY IN THIS
AREA WE SUGGEST YOU THE FOLLOWING:
- Vatican City
Rome is the heart of Catholicism: inside its lans is located
the State of Vatican with its spectacular Saint Peter's
Basilica. The State of the Vatican City, is a landlocked enclave
surrounded by the city of Rome in Italy, and the smallest
independent state in the world (both in area and in population).
The Vatican is the home of the Pope, and forms the territory
of the Holy See, the central authority of the Roman Catholic
Church. The Vatican City maintains the Swiss Guards, a voluntary
military force, as well as a modern security corps. It has
its own post office, commissary, bank, railway station, electrical
generating plant, and publishing house. The Vatican also issues
its own coins, stamps and internet domain. Vaticans museums
hold some of the most beautiful jewels of midle age and renaissance
age and the Sistina Chapel , with the unbelieved frescos by
Michelangelo, is one of the most visited sites in the world.
- Vatican Museums
Located in the Vatican Palace, they are the largest, richest,
most compelling and perhaps most exhausting museum complex
in the world. As its name suggests, the Vatican Palace actually
hold a collection of museums on very diverse subjects: displays
of classical statuary, Renaissance paintings, Etruscan relics,
Egyptian artefacts, the map gallery, the tapestry gallery,
the Raphael Rooms, the Sistine Chapel.
- The Catacombs in Rome
The catacombs are underground corridors and passageways that
were built as communal burial grounds. The best known are
the Christian catacombs along the Via Appia Antica, although
there are Jewish and pagan ones as well. During the periods
of persecution, martyrs were often buried in catacombs besides
the fathers of the Church and the first popes.
- Etruscan sites
In the surroundings of Roma there are several important Etruscan
archaeological sites. These include Tarquinia, Cerveteri,
Veio and Tuscania.
Tarquinia believed to have been founded in the 12th
century BC, its major attractions are the painted tombs of
the burial grounds.
Cerveteri: its main attraction is the well preserved
necropolis (the city of the dead) with complete streets and
houses.
The Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome houses
the world's primary collection of Etruscan treasures.
- The Abbey of Montecassino
The monastery of Montecassino, founded in 529 by St. Benedict,
is located high on a mountaintop between Rome and Naples.
This was for many years one of the most importantand influential
monastic complexes in the Christian world. During War II,
the Abbey came to be the lunchpin of the German presence in
this part of Italy and, after a battle that lasted almost
six months, the Allied - a mixture of poles, New Zealanders
and Indian troops - eventually bombed it to ruins in May 1944,
sacrificing several thousands lives in the process.
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