UNCROWDED ROME
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
The fee (budgeted for 8-10 people) is 2,000 USD, double occupancy, and includes seven nights in a centrally located 3-4* hotel, breakfasts & lunches, as well as entrance tickets.
Single supplement – 450 USD.
Not includes: airfare, travel insurance, airport transfers, dinners, local transportation, entrance fees to other cultural sites not listed on the itinerary
ITINERARY: January 2025
*Please send me a note if interested- exact dates will be determined by June, 2024
Day 1: Departure from the US
Day 2: Arrival and check-in / afternoon walk around Piazza Navona
Light lunch/ refreshments
Visit the greatest surviving temple from antiquity, The Pantheon, two churches featuring Caravaggio paintings (San Luigi, San Agostino), and the church of Sant’ Agnese at Piazza Navona designed by Borromini
Day 3: Doria Pamphilj, San Ignazio, Il Gesu
Morning: Visit one of the most spectacular private art collections in Rome, Doria Pamphilj
Group lunch
Afternoon: Jesuit churches: San Ignazio of Loyola and Il Gesu
Day 4: St. Peter’s and The Vatican Museums
Morning visit to the church of St. Peter’s
Group lunch
Afternoon visit to the Vatican Museums, with particular focus on the recently renovated Raphael rooms and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
Day 5 : Galleria Borghese, Sta Maria del Popolo
Morning visit to Galleria Borghese, one of the finest collections of painting and sculptures, especially by Caravaggio and Bernini; walk through the Borghese park towards Sta Maria del Popolo
Group lunch
Afternoon visit: Sta Maria del Popolo (Caravaggio St. Peter and St. Paul)
Day 6: Sta Maria Maggiore, Palazzo Massimo, Baths of Diocletian
Morning visit to one of the oldest and grandest of Roman basilicas, Sta Maria Maggiore.
Visit to one of Rome’s greatest collections of antiquities, Palazzo Massimo.
Group lunch
Visit to the Baths of Diocletian museum complex – and the church of Sta. Maria degli Angeli
Day 7: Palazzo Barberini – National Gallery, focusing on Renaissance and Baroque art, in a distinguished palace
Group lunch
Free afternoon – visit the forum area on your own
Day 8: Trastevere – Sta Maria in Trastevere and Villa Farnesina
Visit one of the most charming parts of Rome, the area of Trastevere, with the exceptional early Christian basilica of Sta Maria in Trastevere.
Group lunch
Early afternoon visit to Villa Farnesina with frescoes by Raphael – free evening
Day 9: Departures from Rome