private walking sightseeing tour Renaissance Rome – Raphael’s Rome

suitable for children
group size: the size of your party

3 hours tour through some of the city’s most colourful sections.
Stroll along colorful backstreets lined with craftsman workshops, antiques and curiosities shops and typical “trattorias”. Visit the Pantheon, ancient Rome most famous temple, and see the tomb of Raphael. In St. Augustin, church of bankers and courtesans of renaissance Rome, see Caravaggio’s dramatic “Madonna dei Pellegrini” and Raphael’s “I Profeti” inspired by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel monumental figures. See the house of Fiammetta, famous courtesan of Borgia’s time, Stroll along the Via dei Coronari, once pilgrims path to St. Peter and today’s Rome antiques center. Visit Pietro da Cortona’s Santa Maria della Pace with Raphael’s “Sybille”. See colourful stalls in Campo de’ Fiori open air market, Michelangelo’s Farnese palace and Via Giulia with patrician renaissance palaces. Cross the Tiber to picturesque Trastevere. Visit Villa Farnesina, splendid residence of renaissance banker and art patron Agostino Chigi, with spectacular frescoes by Peruzzi and Raphael’s magnificent “Triumph of Galatea” and gracious lodge of “Amore and Psyche”. Stroll along Trastevere lively backstreets to Raphael’s and his “Fornarina”’ love’s nest and close by Santa Maria and its splendid medieval mosaics.
 

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