Rome County Tours
Without travelling too far outside of Rome you can take in the full wealth of Rome’s history with our Rome County Tours. Don’t be mistaken that the beauty of Rome lays in its city center. In ancient times Romans used the out skirts of their beautiful city for arena games, sports and pilgrimage to sacred grounds. The rich built get-away-homes and castles and left us riches to gaze upon.
Tivoli Tours
We journey through the Via Tiburtina, passing by the Castro Pretorio, the Baths of Tivoli and the Lucano Bridge before finally reaching Hadrian’s Villa.
Hadrian’s Villa is a beautiful imperial villa built sometime in the 2nd century by Emperor Hadrian and once greater than the center of Imperial Rome. The villa features a multitude of exquisite fountains and superbly arranged Italian flower gardens. Explore Canopus and Serapeum, the villa’s pool and artificial grotto named after an Egyptian city where a temple was dedicated to the god Serapis, showing how well-traveled Emperor Hadrian was.
The tour continues with Villa d’Este, the sumptuous summer residence of the XVI century, which is famous for its
beautiful fountains.
Ostia Antica Tour
Ostia Antica or Ancient Ostica occasionally serves as a very atmospheric venue for concerts and other cultural events. It features well-preserved temples, theaters, forums, basilicas, houses, shops, inns, baths, and workshops. Every stone and archway is just an empty structure without the stories that make it come alive in our minds. Our driver will drop you off at the entrance of the excavations, where you will then be able to walk through what used to be Rome’s main port for 600 years and has also been a lively trade centre until the V century AD
Castelli Romani Tour
The distric of Castelli Romani, famous for its wine, is comprised of dozens of old towns. Even today, not much has changed in terms of tradition. This is where wealthy Romans come to escape the city on weekends and holidays. The area is littered with castles, villas, palazzi and refreshing easy towns to tour.
There are 13 towns in the Castelli Romani (Frascati, Grottaferrata, Castel Gandolfo, Marino, Rocca di Papa, Ariccia, Nemi, Monteporizio Catone, Colonna, Albano Laziale, Genzano, Montecompatri and Rocca Priora). This is a perfect area to have a good dinner or lunch, to start or end a trip (as they are relatively close to the Champino airport).
For the Roman emperor and the wealthy cardinals in the heyday of the Renaissance, the Castelli Romani exerted a powerful lure, and they still do.
