Tour Italy, Incoming Latium Incoming Rome Tour Package , Rome, the eternal City

Roma, Caput Mundi! the Eternal City. There's more to see here than in any other city in the world. You can not miss the newly-renovated Colosseum, the Roman Forum, St. Peter's Square and the Vatican City, the Pantheon, the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, Piazza Navona, the Borghese Gallery, and the outdoor market at Campo de' Fiori. Save some time for designer shopping at the Spanish Steps, and don't forget to toss your coin into Trevi Fountain! In the east of Rome, is Tivoli, the old " Tibur Superbum", as Virgilio called it. Here you can visit Villa d'Este built in 1550, famous for its sumptuous garden, statues, monuments, and above all the great fountains. The one hundred Fountains is one of the most beautiful, unforgettable and photographed place. During an excursion to Castelli Romani, right on Rome's doorstep, you can test different kinds of some of the most famous italian wines.

ITINERARY

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.

OPTIONAL VISITS / EXCURSIONS

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.