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Rome Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and Walking Tour

1. Rome Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and Walking Tour

Get to know Rome at your own pace on this interactive scavenger hunt walking tour played on your phone. Decipher riddles, interact with the most important attractions of the city, and unlock interesting facts and legends. An ideal outdoor activity for first time visitors, couples, groups, families, and children. Can be used as a great team-building activity. To get started, simply download the app and go to the starting point at Castel St. Angelo for your first challenge (download link and login credentials received after booking). Choose to start the tour at any time. At each stop, learn about the attraction and solve a location-based riddle that can only be solved if you reach the specific location. Use logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to unlock the correct code and reveal the next destination of the city sightseeing game. Use your imagination, logic, observation, and team spirit in order to solve riddles at each attraction. The app's integrated maps will help you to navigate to each new place. Along the way, learn about the city and places you visit.Start your tour from Castel St. Angelo, then visit the centre of Rome and one of the most famous squares in the world, Piazza Navona! Visit Piazza della Rotonda with the beautiful Pantheon overlooking it. Still the famous Piazza della Minerva continues your beautiful journey. Photograph Sant'Andrea della Valle and bury yourself in Piazza Venezia as you get lost in its chaos. Then the imposing Forum of Trajan awaits you. Still the famous Capitoline Hill designed by the one and only Michelangelo continues your beautiful journey in Rome. Admire the Colosseum one of the attractions that everyone knows having or not having been to Rome. Pause whenever you want to take a break or spend some more time sightseeing. As you explore, you may also run into some of the city's hidden gems along the characteristic, narrow streets.

Dark Heart of Rome - Facts, Legend & Mystery Walking Tour

2. Dark Heart of Rome - Facts, Legend & Mystery Walking Tour

When the sun sets in Rome another side to the city comes to life. This darker, more mysterious Rome is one where facts and legends are intertwined to stimulate the imagination as much as the eye. On this 90-minute evening tour, you'll discover the sunset Rome known only to a select few! Your guide will bring the Eternal City’s most enthralling historical and supernatural mysteries to life in a highly entertaining and informative tour. You will stroll along winding lanes in the city's historic center and hear ghostly tales that form part of a lesser-known history of Rome. Departing from Sant'Andrea Della Valle Church, you will walk in the shadows of sights such as the Campo de Fiori, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Via del Governo Vecchio, Via Giulia, Piazza Farnese, and Castel Sant'Angelo. Prepare to be a little spooked, but expect to be highly entertained!

Dark Heart of Rome: Facts, Legends, and Mystery Tour

3. Dark Heart of Rome: Facts, Legends, and Mystery Tour

When the sun sets in Rome, another side of the city comes to life. It is an older and more mysterious Rome, where facts and legends are intertwined to stimulate the imagination as much as the eye. This 90-minute evening tour is the tour to take if you want to discover that Rome, known only to a select few! Your guide will bring the Eternal City’s most enthralling historical and supernatural mysteries to life in a highly entertaining and informative tour. You will stroll along winding lanes in the city's historic center, and hear ghostly tales that form part of Rome’s lesser-known history. Departing from Sant' Andrea Della Valle Church, walk in the shadow of sights such as the Campo de Fiori, where public executions used to take place. Walk down the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, and through the Piazza Farnese, dominated by fountains formed out of granite stone basins. See the Castel Sant’ Angelo, site of the Mausoleum of Hadrian, and walk down the Via Giulia, one of the first planning projects in Renaissance Rome.

Rome: First Discovery Walk and Reading Walking Tour

4. Rome: First Discovery Walk and Reading Walking Tour

Walk through a beautiful route of the city, discover hidden gems and visit 10+ of the most important attractions and spots. Learn some introductory information about each place and interesting stories about the city in general. Download the ‘World City Trail ‘app from the store and login. Read the instructions and head to the starting location. Unlock photos of the exterior and the interior of the location. Read some information regarding the attraction and continue walking to the next checkpoint. Note what you liked and did not like and create your bucket list for the next days! Start your walk any time, without a schedule. Pause it for lunch, have a drink, visit an attraction of your choice, and continue later or even another day. With the maps feature, you will never get lost. Start your tour from Castel St. Angelo, then visit the centre of Rome and one of the most famous squares in the world, Piazza Navona! Visit Piazza della Rotonda with the beautiful Pantheon overlooking it. Still the famous Piazza della Minerva continues your beautiful journey. Photograph Sant'Andrea della Valle and bury yourself in Piazza Venezia as you get lost in its chaos. Then the imposing Forum of Trajan awaits you. Still the famous Capitoline Hill designed by the one and only Michelangelo continues your beautiful journey in Rome. Admire the Colosseum one of the attractions that everyone knows having or not having been to Rome. Download the ‘’World City Trail ‘’ app from the store. Then start your tour and enjoy!

Rome: Settings of the Opera Tosca Walking Private Tour

5. Rome: Settings of the Opera Tosca Walking Private Tour

Tosca is the most famous opera of Puccini and is set entirely in Rome. It is a story about the love and jealousy between Tosca, a young girl of the Roman aristocracy, and Cavaradossi, a famous painter of the time. Visit the actual sites where the drama takes place. Admire the beauty of central Rome as you "travel" through the main acts of the opera. Begin the tour at the Roman ruins of Largo Argentina and visit the church of Sant'Andrea Della Valle, one of the greatest expressions of 16th-century art. Here you will admire the frescoes by Domenichino and Lanfranchi, as well as the first baroque dome of the city. Discover the location of the jealous outburst of Tosca. Walk through the very popular Campo de'Fiori as you get to the second stop of the tour, Piazza Farnese. This is one of the most fascinating squares of central Rome and is where the second act of the opera is set. Here, learn about the history and mysteries of the beautiful Palazzo Farnese, one of the jewels of Renaissance Rome, and of the two twin fountains in the square. Stroll across Piazza Navona with your guide and marvel at Rome's most beautiful monument, the Pantheon. End your tour at the very famous Castel Sant'Angelo, by the Tiber river and close to the Vatican. Discover the long history of this fort, from its original function as the mausoleum of Emperor Adrian, to its role as a hiding place for archives and treasures of the Vatican. It is here that Puccini sets the tragic, last act of his opera.

Rome: Walking Tour with Local Guide

6. Rome: Walking Tour with Local Guide

Among the anecdotes of Rome are the Talking Statues, 6 statues scattered around Rome that were famous because the Romans expressed their opinion on important people through inscriptions placed on them. Start the tour from Piazza di Spagna, a stone's throw away from which you will find the Baboon Statue, named after the fact that it was not exactly beautiful. Continue to Via del Corso and turn onto Via Lata where there is the funny statue of the Porter, now a fountain where you can drink. Then reach Piazza del Campidoglio and in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museums admire the most impressive talking statue, the Marforio statue representing the Tiber. Move towards Palazzo Venezia where there is the Statue of Madama Lucrezia, named after the noblewoman who lived in the palace next door, walk past the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle and discover the Statue of Abbot Luigi, which probably owes its name to the fact that there was an abbot who looked like it at the time. Finally, a stone's throw from Piazza Navona is Pasquino's most famous bust, which owes its name to the Pasquinate, satirical verses found right next to it.

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What people are saying about Sant'Andrea della Valle

Overall rating

4.5 / 5

based on 381 reviews

My kids had a blast and we spend 3+ hours racing around the spots and solving puzzles. I think it will even take more time (roughly around 4-5 hours) as we had visited few spots earlier and could recall some spots. A small tip to play the game during day time as at some places you need light to see what's written on certain puzzle items. We had a very dark building and my son decided to google and download the picture to read the carvings on the pillar. Overall, worth every penny and good family bonding time

This was an excellent tour learning about the untold dark history of Rome. Our guide Rob made the tour fun and informative. He is excellent and very entertaining and superb storyteller. One of the tours you can take. Highly recommend it.

Elizabeta was charming and informative. She answered any questions knowledgeably and was receptive to any comments from the group. The tour was a lot of fun and I learned another side of Rome and about real people who lived there.

We really enjoyed our tour with Elisabetta. She offered many stories throughout the tour and was enjoyable to talk to b

Excellent guide, very knowledgeable. A great way to see a difference side of Rome at night!