A unique Private Tour of Rome city center chauffeured by your expert Driver, and enjoy an exclusive food tasting with a wine pairing experience in a unique Roman wine cellar.
Be overwhelmed by the magical atmosphere of Rome after your driver picks you up. Along the way, you may have some short stops to take some photos and admire the main sites like the Circus Maximus, Piazza Venezia, Marcello's Theatre, Capitoline Hill, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant'Angelo, Saint Peter's Square, Gianicolo Hill and many other sights of the Eternal City.
See the folkloric neighborhood of Trastevere and go in the underground cellar of the Fabullus winery created in an environment dating back to the 1st century AD. Enjoy some traditional Italian delicacies paired with a selection of excellent wines. Be sure to attend Fabullus Winery to live and share an experience in which food and wine balance each other in a perfect combination of tastes. At the End Drop Off at your Hotel.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ Sightseeing Tour with an English Speaking Driver
✔ Presentation and explanation by our expert staff
✔ 1 Glass of Prosecco, 4 Glasses (2 White & 2 Red) superior Italian wines selected by our expert staff
✔ 4 types of olive 3 qualities of bread Extra virgin olive oil Roman Pizza (Focaccia)
✔ Hotel Pick Up and Drop Off by De Luxe Minivan
✔ Honey and jams to pair with cheeses Ice Cream/Tiramisù (or other Italian Typical Dessert) & Coffee
✔ Mortadella with pistachio, buffalo mozzarella, ricotta, fresh vegetables or in oil or vinegar, etc.)
✔ 3-course tasting (Selection of fresh and mature cheeses, various types of cured meats, ham)
✔ Water included
✖ Gratuities, Tour Guide, Baby seats.
✖ Vegan Menù
Pickup Locations
1. San Pietro Rooms 84
2. Maalot Roma - Small Luxury Hotels Of The World
3. Hotel Domus Termini
4. Sophie's Choice 2 a San Pietro
5. Hotel Madison Roma
6. Hotel Positano 2
7. Radisson Collection Hotel, Roma Antica
8. BePlace Holy See
9. Esposizione Luxury Rome
10. Freerome Hotel
11. Hotel La Place
12. Vertex Suite
13. Hotel Maximus
14. Casa Santa Sofia
15. DoubleTree by Hilton Rome Monti
16. Hotel Alex Square
17. Hotel Il Campo Marzio
18. Romi Suite
19. Monastero dei Santi
20. Hotel Delle Civette
Additional Info: You can meet your driver at your hotel/accommodation or another agreed spot in Rome's city center (within the Aurelian Walls).
If you are staying in a hotel with a lobby, please wait for your driver 15 minutes before your tour departure time. If you are staying in an apartment or other accommodation without a lobby, at the moment of the booking, leave a correct address and valid phone number. Please wait for the driver 15 minutes before your tour departure at the address you indicated at the moment of the booking.
Itinerary
1
Fontana di Trevi
The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 and several others. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide,[2] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.
Duration: 15 minutes
2
St. Angelo Bridge
Ponte Sant'Angelo, also known as pons Aelius (Helios Bridge), pons Hadriani (Hadrian's Bridge) or Castello Bridge, is a bridge that connects Piazza di Ponte S. Angelo to the Vatican Lungotevere, in Rome, in the Ponte and Borgo districts .
It was built in Rome in 134 by the emperor Hadrian, designed by a certain Demetrianus, to connect his mausoleum to the left bank.
It was built in peperino and covered in travertine and had three arches, which were accessed via ramps from the shore. The ramps were in turn supported by three smaller arches on the left bank and two on the right bank, towards Hadrian's mausoleum, which were destroyed in 1893 during the construction of the river banks and replaced by modern arches. The street level had high sidewalks on the sides equipped with travertine balustrades.
Duration: 10 minutes
3
St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City. It was initially planned in the 15th century by Pope Nicholas V and then Pope Julius II to replace the ageing Old St. Peter's Basilica, which was built in the fourth century by Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, and Carlo Maderno, with piazza and fittings by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is one of the most renowned works of Italian Renaissance architecture and is the largest church in the world by interior measure. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world",and as "the greatest
4
Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II
Built to a design by the architect Ennio De Rossi in 1886, it was called the Vittorio Emanuele bridge when it had not yet been built[3]. The works were soon interrupted and resumed only in 1908 and inaugurated for the first time on 5 May 1911, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy, then again on 28 April 1912, with the definitive installation of the travertine groups[4].
It has three arches for a length of 110 m and is decorated at the ends by high bases with winged Victories and, in correspondence with the central pylons, by symbolic sculptural groups, whose technical design was carried out by the Allegri company. The bronze Victories are the work of the sculptors Elmo Palazzi, Luigi Casadio, Amleto Cataldi and Francesco Pifferetti. The sculptural groups were created (and inaugurated) in travertine the following year by Giuseppe Romagnoli for La fidelity to the Statute (after the battle of Novara, 1849); Italo Griselli for Il Valore Militare (the ....
5
Campo Marzio
Since the royal era, the area was consecrated to the god Mars, and used for military exercises. It is said that here, near the Palus Caprae, the first king of Rome, Romulus, was taken to heaven.[1] Tarquinius the Proud took it over and had it cultivated for wheat. According to a legend, during the revolt that caused the king's expulsion, the sheaves of that wheat were thrown into the river, giving rise to the Tiber Island. With the beginning of the Republican era, the Campus Martius returned to a public area and was reconsecrated to the god. It was the seat of the comitia centuriata, assemblies of the people in arms.
The southernmost part of the plain, starting from the slopes of the Capitoline Hill (where the remains of the Theater of Marcellus and the portico of Ottavia are currently visible) was distinct from the actual Campus Martius, with the toponym of Circo Flaminio. The area was crossed by the Via Flaminia, the urban part of which took the name of Via Lata (now Via del Corso.
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Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval. The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as "Circus Agonalis" ("competition arena"). It is believed that over time the name changed to in avone to navone and eventually to navona.
Duration: 15 minutes
7
Castel Sant'angelo
Tutto ha inizio nel 135 d.C. quando l'imperatore Adriano chiede all'architetto Demetriano di costruire un mausoleo funebre per sé e i suoi familiari, ispirandosi al modello del mausoleo di Augusto, ma con dimensioni gigantesche. I lavori durarono diversi anni e furono ultimati da Antonino Pio nel 139. Venne costruito di fronte al Campo Marzio, al quale fu unito da un ponte appositamente costruito, il Ponte Elio. Il mausoleo era composto da una base cubica, rivestita in marmo lunense, avente un fregio decorativo a teste di buoi (Bucrani) e lesene angolari. Nel fregio prospiciente il fiume si leggevano i nomi degli imperatori sepolti all'interno. Sempre su questo lato si presentava l'arco d'ingresso intitolato ad Adriano; il dromos (passaggio d'accesso) era interamente rivestito di marmo giallo antico.
Duration: 10 minutes
8
Pantheon
The Pantheon (temple of all the gods") is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – AD 14), then after that burnt down, the present building was ordered by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated c. AD 126. Its date of construction is uncertain, because Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple but rather to retain the inscription of Agrippa's older temple. (VSIT OUTSIDE)
Duration: 10 minutes
9
Ponte Principe Amedeo Savoia Aosta
Ponte Principe Amedeo Savoia Aosta, also known as Principe bridge or PASA bridge from its acronym, is a bridge that connects the Lungotevere dei Sangallo to Piazza Della Rovere, in Rome, in the Ponte, Trastevere and Borgo districts.
10
Ponte Sisto
The bridge was built by Pope Sixtus IV between 1473 and 1479 to allow the crossing of the Tiber on the site of an older Roman bridge. It connects the two banks of the river between via del Pettinari and piazza Trilussa.
A first bridge was built by Agrippa, friend and son-in-law of the emperor Augustus before his death in 12 BC, probably to connect his properties on the opposite banks of the Tiber. The existence of this bridge is attested by the inscription on a stone of the magistrates who dealt with the river (curatores Tiberis) discovered in 1887, which speaks of works on the bridge at the time of Emperor Claudius. The bridge was initially identified with the remains of pylons visible in the river downstream of Ponte Sisto, which instead probably belong to a late fortification of the river.
Duration: 5 minutes
11
Ponte Cestio
The Pons Cestius (Latin for the "Cestian Bridge"; Italian: Ponte Cestio) is an ancient Roman bridge connecting the right bank of the Tiber with the west bank of Tiber Island in Rome, Italy. In Late Antiquity, the bridge was replaced and renamed the Pons Gratiani ("Bridge of Gratian"). It is also known as Ponte San Bartolomeo (Italian for "Bridge of St Bartholomew"). No more than one-third of the present stone bridge is of ancient material, as it was entirely rebuilt and extended in the 19th century after numerous earlier restorations.
The original bridge was built around the 1st century BC (sometime between 62 and 27 BC),[citation needed] after the Pons Fabricius, which connects the other side of the island to the river's left bank. The identity of the Cestius referred to in the bridge's name has yet to be discovered. He may have been responsible for building the bridge or for later restoring an existing one and may have been a member of the gens Cestia during the later Roman Republic.
12
Trastevere
At the time of the foundation of Rome, the Trastevere area was a hostile land that belonged to the Etruscans of Veii (litus tuscus or ripa veiens), disputed with the newborn city because it was strategic for the control of the river, the ford of the Tiber island and the ancient river port. It was then connected with the rest of the city via the Sublicius pons, from which the Via Campana started towards the salt pans on the Tyrrhenian Sea and later the Via Aurelia towards the Etruscan cities.
In the Republican era it was populated by those workers whose activities were linked to the river, such as sailors and fishermen, together with oriental immigrants, mainly Jews and Syrians. For this reason, some temples of oriental cults arose in the area, including the so-called Syriac Sanctuary on the Janiculum.
The consideration of the area as part of the city begins with the emperor Augustus, who divided the territory of Rome into 14 regions; ....
13
Pont Fabricius
The Pons Fabricius (Italian: Ponte Fabricio, "Fabrician Bridge") or Ponte dei Quattro Capi, is the oldest Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, still existing in its original state.[1] Built in 62 BC, it spans half of the Tiber River, from the Campus Martius on the east side to Tiber Island in the middle (the Pons Cestius is west of the island). Quattro Capi ("four heads") refers to the two marble pillars of the two-faced Janus herms on the parapet, which were moved here from the nearby Church of St Gregory (Monte Savello) in the 14th century.
According to Dio Cassius, the bridge was built in 62 BC, the year after Cicero was consulted, to replace an earlier wooden bridge destroyed by fire. It was commissioned by Lucius Fabricius, the curator of the roads and a member of the gens Fabricia of Rome. Completely intact from Roman antiquity, it has been in continuous use ever since.
Duration: 10 minutes
14
DISCOVER THE MOST SECRET WINE CELLAR IN ROME “FABULLUS”
Rome Wine Tasting | Food Tasting with Wine Pairing in Rome. | In the heart of the most characteristic district of Rome, Trastevere, it is located in the basement of an 18th-century building, the Wine Cellar Fabullus, a Rome wine cellar. An authentic underground cellar, obtained from the careful and skillful recovery of a Roman cistern from the 1st century AD, furnished with antique objects and furniture that make this place unique.
“Life is too short to drink mediocre wines.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Original Roman marble, ancient artifacts, furniture, and things related to the production of wine decorate the walls and wooden shelves, which make this place welcoming and pleasant. Over the years, this wine cellar in Rome has become a place for tastings of excellent products for lovers of products with authentic taste and faithful to the ancient tradition of Italian food and wine culture.
Duration: 60 minutes
15
Colle del Gianicolo
The Promenade of the Janiculum, from which you can enjoy one of the most evocative views of the historic center of Rome, is made up of two large avenues lined with plane trees, bordering the Villa Aurelia, which meet in Piazzale Garibaldi. They then continue along a single road that winds down towards the church of Sant'Onofrio, built to complete the Walk in 1939.
The area, theater of the heroic events of the fighters for the Roman Republic in 1849, was transformed in 1883 by the new Italian institutions into a public promenade and dedicated to the memory of the Defense of Rome.
At the edges of the avenues there are 84 busts of the illustrious Garibaldians who fought for the defense of Rome in 1849. Among the main monuments are the equestrian statue of Emilio Gallori dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi and the equestrian monument to Anita Garibaldi created by Mario Rutelli in 1930s and the lighthouse donated to the city by the Italians of Argentina on the occasion of the fiftieth ...
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Isola Tiberina
Tiber Island (Italian: Isola Tiberina, Latin: Insula Tiberina) is the only river island in the part of the Tiber that runs through Rome. It is located in the southern bend of the Tiber.
The island is boat-shaped, approximately 270 meters (890 feet) long and 67 meters (220 feet) wide, and has been connected with bridges to both sides of the river since antiquity. As the seat of the ancient temple of Asclepius and later a hospital, it is associated with medicine and healing. The Fatebenefratelli Hospital, founded in the 16th century, and the church of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, dating from the 10th century, are located on the island.
The Western end of Tiber Island. The travertine stone gives a distinctive trireme shape.
Since antiquity, the island has been linked to the rest of Rome by two bridges. It was once called Insula Inter-Duos-Pontes, which means "the island between the two bridges". The Ponte Fabricio, the only original bridge in Rome, connects the island from the ....
Duration: 10 minutes
Additional info
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• When booking, it is mandatory to communicate any allergies or intolerances to food and drinks.
• Punctuality is required to fully enjoy the experience. For delays exceeding 20 minutes the service could be cancelled.
• When booking, it is mandatory to communicate any allergies or intolerances to food and drinks.
• Fabullus and the staff are not responsible for any reactions caused by allergies or intolerances to food and drinks if not communicated before the service.
• The sightseeing tour itinerary may vary due to unforeseeable events and depending from the pick up point.
• Any unallocated time in the itinerary, will be spend during travelling between stops.
• It is possible to add participants to the food tasting with wine pairing only on request.
• Groups larger than 8 people may be accepted; please send a request.
• The itinerary and sights included in the description may vary depending on exceptional not predictable events.
• Not recommended for children under 7
• Not recommended for diabetics
• Not recommended for Wheelchairs Users and people with serious mobility impairments
• Vegans Only on request if available | Not recommended for diabetics
