Rome & Lazio
Discovery Tours Limousine service Italy has carefully selected all the tours listed available in Tuscany to create the perfect excursion and introduction to this beautiful region.
Rome is the most fascinating city in Italy, which makes it arguably the most fascinating city in the world. An ancient place packed with the relics of over two thousand years of inhabitation, you could spend a month here and still only scratch the surface. Yet it's so much more than an open-air museum: its culture, its food, its people make up a modern, vibrant city that would be worthy of a visit irrespective of its past. As a historic place, it is special enough; as a contemporary European capital, it is utterly unique.
Evenly placed between north and south, Rome is perhaps the perfect Italian capital. Former heart of the mighty Roman Empire, and still the home of the papacy, Rome is seen as a place somewhat apart from the rest of the country, spending money made elsewhere on the bloated government machine. For the traveler of course, this is much less evident than the sheer weight of history that the city supports. First are Rome's classical features, most visibly the Colosseum, and the Forum and Palatine Hill; but from here there's an almost uninterrupted sequence of monuments – from early Christian basilicas and Romanesque churches to Renaissance palaces and the fountains and churches of the Baroque period, which perhaps more than any other era has determined the look of the city today. There is the modern epoch, too, from the ponderous neoclassical architecture of the post-Unification period to the self-publicizing edifices of the Mussolini years. These various eras crowd in on one another to an almost overwhelming degree: there are medieval churches atop ancient basilicas above Roman palaces; houses and apartment blocks that incorporate fragments of eroded Roman columns, carvings and inscriptions; roads and piazzas which follow the lines of ancient amphitheatres and stadiums.
Beyond Rome, the region of Lazio inevitably pales in comparison, with relatively few centers of note and a landscape that varies from the gently undulating green hills of its northern reaches to the more inhospitable mountains to the south and east. It's a relatively poor region, its lack of identity the butt of a number of Italian jokes, and it's the closest you'll get to the feel of the Italian south without catching the train to Naples. Much, however, can easily be seen on a day-trip from the capital, not least the ancient sites of Ostia Antica and the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli – two of the area's most important ancient sites. Further afield, in the north of Lazio, the Etruscan sites of Tarquinia and Cerveteri provide the most obvious tourist focus, and are again just about visitable on a day-trip, but you'd do better to use the pleasant provincial town of Viterbo as a base. Romans, meanwhile, head out at weekends to soak up the gentle beauty of lakes Bracciano, Vico and Bolsena. The south arguably holds Lazio's most appealing enclaves. The coast is home to unpretentious resorts like Terracina and Sperlonga – relatively unknown outside Italy; and the island of Ponza, accessible from Terracina and Formia, further down the coast, is out of season at least one of the most alluring spots on the entire western seaboard.
Your english speaking chauffeur/guide will welcome you at your hotel or any other places of your convenience.This is an orientation tour. In four hours you will a chance to see and visit some most famous monuments of Rome: Via Veneto (drive by), Piazza Barberini, Quirinale (drive by), Trevi Fountain (visit), Via del Corso (drive), Piazza Venezia (stop), Capitol Hill (stop), Roman Forum, Colosseum (visit), Circus Maximus (drive by), St. Peter’s Basilica (visit), Spanish Steps (stop).More sites and curiosities, less known than the places listed above, will be brought to your attention during this tour.This tour can be scheduled in the morning or afternoon and is conduct by an english speaking driver/guide that will not enter sites but drive you around and show you places, pointing out things while driving and explain what they are, stop at the places tha ...
Pick up with a car at 9 a.m. at your hotel and let’s start with the visit of Piazza Venezia that today aspect dates back to the late 19th century, dominated by the huge monument in honour of Vittorio Emanuele II, named also and disrespectfully “the wedding cake”. Just 10 minutes from here there are Capitol hill and Roman Forum panoramas, right in time to lead you up and take your breath away through the enchanting view of the Forum Romanum, the religious, political and commercial hub of the ancient Rome. With few minutes of walking from here you will feel completely plunged into the magnificent Piazza del Campidoglio commissioned by Pope Paul III. It was designed and partly laid out by Michelangelo from 1536 onwards for the visit of the emperor Charles V. Not very far away from here there is the Jewish ghetto where you can explore the inter ...
We pick you up at the hotel or restaurant if it is necessary, then our guide will take you all around the Eternal city. Rome, during the night is an eclectic and shining place where fountains glitter, squares glow and people themselves sparkle. You can fell the charming atmosphere of this romantic city among the monuments, over the Capitol hill, Spanish Steps, Piazza del Popolo and the Vatican city for the breathtaking view of St peter basilica illuminated. Then you will continue until the Gianicolo hill for un unforgettable view over the monumental ancient Rome on the other bank of the river Tiber. From here you can admire Piazza Navona, a fashionable and crowded meeting point for Romains or decided to stroll around and explore Testaccio district, the best place in the city where you can eat a very good pizza and a traditional glass of Italian wine. ...
Private Guided Tour Privileged Entrances - Duration 4 hrs from Monday to Saturday and last Sunday of every month
Car pick up and transfer to Vatican Museum. Nothing in the world compares to being lead into the Catholic state for a walking tour to the discovery of art, history and religion in the smallest state in the world. The whole buildings include the papal apartments of the medieval apostolic palace embellished by frescoes during the Renaissance, the Sistine Chapel, the Apostolic Library and the museums. The Vatican collections assembled through the centuries thanks to the artistic, dynastic and religious ambitious of the Popes, today represents a museum without any rival and with historical significance. Your Lecture Guide will you explain the Candelabras Gallery created in 1780 as a continuation of the Pio Clementine Museum the Dutch tapestries, a lo ...
Every Wednesday morning (unless the Pope is absent) - (about 3 hours). Your english speaking driver will welcome you at your Hotel or any other place of your convenience by 8.30am.After crossing the Villa Borghese gardens and passing in front of Castel Sant'Angelo, the ancient Pope Fortress, we reach St. Peter's square where you will be admitted to the Papal Audience. After a hopeful message pronounced in various languages, his Holyness will impart his blessing. Return at hotels or nearest point around noon. (shorts and uncovered shoulders are not admitted into the audience) The audience can be held either in the Sala Nervi or in the Square and the time could change, in this case the starting time of the tour will change accordingly.Your english speaking driver will remain at your disposal for 3 hours approx. ...
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Payments will be charged at the end of your service according to the rates quoted. We accept your payment in cash, credit card, and cheques.
Currency: All prices are expressed in European currency, Euros " € "
Rates include: Driving guide service. Use of vehicle. Fuel and motorway tolls. Italian Taxes 10% IVA (VAT - Value Added Tax).
Rates do NOT include: * client’s meals * food and beverage * gratuities * 5% credit card commission * entrance fees to museums and monuments unless otherwise noted on the programs. Anything not expressly mentioned as included.
Cancellation policy
Please, note that there will be no charge if you cancel your reservation by fax or e-mail within at least 15 days before date of requested service. If is not done in these terms, our company reserves the right to debit the “no show fee” on your credit card which is:
- Cancellation 1 week before date of requested service: No Penalty
- Cancellation 72 hours before date and time of requested service: 10% Penalty
- Cancellation 48 hours before date and time of requested service: 30% Penalty
- Cancellation 24 hours before date and time of requested service: 50% Penalty
- Cancellation less than 24 hours before the service fully charged.
Transportation
Transportation is furnished by licensed insured professional drivers only, who are qualified to perform public transportation services all over Europe.
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Our company does not accept responsibility for any accident regarding theft or damages during the course of our tours.
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