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There is no better way to explore the Eternal City than with a Roman guide!
Your professional guide will allow you to experience Rome through the centuries - past and present, the pagan and the Christian, art and everyday life - and understand how all are inextricably combined.

Your guide can be with you for a half or a full day; your tour can be walking or by limo, minibus or public transport. In addition to tour and sightseeing services, your guide can help you with the language, the food and the shopping. Our guides are Romans who can show you typical aspects of local life. Guides know, and will show you, the real dimension of a city you will love and never forget. Our tours in Rome and our excursions out of the city are designed for the first time visitor, as well as the returning traveler who seeks a deeper understanding of Rome.

Most of the tours within the historical center of Rome are walking tours; however, we will provide our clients with transportation by limo, minibus, or bus if the service is needed or requested.

All tours are private - for your party only!

No queues to get into the Vatican or Coliseum!

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 Tips for tourists
Like all big cities, Rome has its share, some of it avoidable (do not tempt with flashy, expensive jewellery, dangling and/or open purses, easily accessible wallets, unlocked cars, etc.), some of it not (a home broken into even though furnished with six locks, an alarm system and a pit bull dog!). Hold on tightly to purses and briefcases and keep them away from the traffic side of the street. Keep your eyes open on buses for suspicious characters - especially on the heavily traveled buses and metros. Warn someone you think is a potential victim; you would want such a warning.
CRIME - Like all big cities, Rome has its share, some of it avoidable (do not tempt with flashy, expensive j...
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 Artists
Venice 1430-1516)

Bellini's long career was to form the backbone of Venetian Renaissance painting. The brother of Gentile (c.1429-1507), also a painter, he learned the first rudiments from his father Jacopo, head of a prolific workshop. Giovanni was the first of the Venetians to make color and light the atmospheric essence of painting, which was to become distinctive of the Venetian school, traditionally opposed to that of Tuscany and Central Italy, based on the linear drawing. Considered by Vasari the greatest Venetian artist of his day, from the 1490s he had a successful shop producing great altarpieces as well as portraits and allegories. His early style was influenced by his brother-in-law Mantegna and by the arrival of Antonello in Venice. From the latter he was inspired to turn from tempera to oil and toward a softer sfumato. He was to be innovative to the end, as proven by the San Zaccaria Altarpiece (1505).

(From Italian Art Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).

GIOVANNI BELLINI - Venice 1430-1516) Bellini's long career was to form the backbone of Venetian Renaissance painting...

 Monuments
Its construction was begun over the site of the Chiesa di S.Maria della Fossa (1190) in 1488 by the Arch-confraternity of S.Giovanni Decollato, named of Misericordia, and finished in 1504. The Arch-confraternity was composed of Florentines, who's goal was to assist the people condemned to death, numerous in that epoch. The famous members of the Arch-confraternity were Michelangelo, St. Roberto Bellarmino and different popes and cardinals. In 1540 it obtained a privilege to set free one of the condemned every year on August 29, a day when the head of St John Baptist was found. 
The church has a nave and side chapels with fine 16th-18th centuries stucco and fresco decoration and a wooden ceiling. On the High Altar is a painting by G.Vasari (1553) portraying the Decapitation of St. John Baptists. On the other altars there are paintings of Pomarancio and G.Vasari. There is also an oratory for the members of confraternity realized in 1530-1535 of which the walls are decorated with the cycle Stories of Baptist by J.del Conte, F.Salviati and P.Ligorio. On the altar is a Deposition by J.Del Conte (1550). 
In the adjoining cloister (1555) is a portico executed in Florentine Renaissance style. In the center is a garden. Beneath it were seven (six for men, and one for women) common graves where the sentenced to death were buried. There is also an interesting archive and a museum dedicated to the activity of confraternity.CHURCH OF S. GIOVANNI DECOLLATO - Its construction was begun over the site of the Chiesa di S.Maria della Fossa (1190) in 1488 by the ...