ACTIVE FROM 01 APRIL TO 31 OCTOBER – DEPARTURE FROM SORRENTO
• Air-conditioned bus
• Licensed guide
• Entrance fees are not included
A visit, albeit brief, to Rome, allows you to breathe the atmosphere of the Eternal City and to be able to enjoy the wonders that have lasted for 2,800 years and therefore present an example of everything that has happened in Italy in many centuries of history, art, religion.
Rome was founded on the hills overlooking the Tiber in the eighth century, and even today on the Tiber Island you can see the crossing point that then marked the border between Etruria, on the right bank, and Lazio which marked the importance of the city, a place of passage for trade and populations.
The beauty of Rome is in the overlapping between different eras, with monuments of Ancient Rome that are integrated into Baroque monuments, medieval churches that stand on ancient pagan temples, squares that trace ancient monuments. Rome is a fabric made up of a thousand fabrics, which integrate and mix in what is famous as the city par excellence, the Urbe, as it was called by the Romans to indicate the City.
The views are extraordinary along the Tiber, and in any case the journey between the two most famous monuments of the city is traveled along the river. The Colosseum is a short distance from the Tiber Island, an imposing amphitheater that has marked the memory of a thousand similar monuments around the world. Gladiator games, so loved by the Romans, took place here, games that took place on occasions decided by the emperor, who offered them free of charge to the population. The Colosseum is built under the Palatine Hill, on which the Imperial Palace stood (which is so called because it stands on the Palatine Hill), and at the beginning of the Forum Area, the public space not only of Rome but of every city of the Empire.
And along the Tiber there is St. Peter's Basilica, the largest and most important church in the world, the seat of the papacy, which contains masterpieces like few museums in the world, and which is marked by the beautiful dome designed by Michelangelo, and surrounded by the colonnade designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Not far from St. Peter's you can see, majestic, Castel Sant'Angelo, a fortress in which the pope took refuge in case of danger, built, to demonstrate the relationship between ancient and modern, on the basis of Hadrian's mausoleum, that is, the tomb of one of the greatest Roman emperors.