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AppetiTours offers guided, private visits, always enhanced by a tasty break.

Because travelling means discovering the beauty of a new place, but also experiencing that place’s unique flavours and aromas.

What we offer are sampling menus, with tours of a few hours in which we show you the highlights of the city, while leaving time for a delicious gelato or tasty cappuccino; or we can create more elaborate menus, with tours that cover an entire day, combined with lunches or dinners in exclusive places that are especially loved by the Romans.

Explore the proposals on our web site, and if they don’t meet your taste expectations, ask us to construct something specifically for your holiday idea.

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St. Nicolaus in Jail Tour
(St. Nicolaus in Jail outside view)

A stone’s throw from Campidoglio, under an ancient church are hidden the remains of three very ancient temples. It was once thought that these cells could have been the prison of St. Peter (hence the name “carcere” which means prison). Then, however, the truth was discovered. A fascinating way to discover Ancient Rome underneath the cobblestones of Baroque Rome. An underground tour for anyone fascinated with mysteries of places ignored by “normal” tourists. * click to read more...

Biopark Tour
(Biopark Detail)

It’s not a zoo with cages and sad animals, but instead wide open spaces where the bio-park’s guests can move around, interact and be observed – from a reasonable distance – by visitors. A few peacocks strut among the paths dividing various sections and many types of birds are free to fly among the park’s trees. Other animals, however, such as bears, wolves, crocodiles, snakes, lions, zebras, lemurs, etc. have dedicated areas. Visitors can use the fun panels - with games for the children - to discover the habits of the animals, but also the city’s legends linked to these guests.... * click to read more...

Aqueducts' Park Tour
(Aqueduct)

Rome is famous for its fountains, the monumental ones as well as those practical for drinking (the popular “Nasoni” big noses). But from where does that wealth of water come? In ancient times, Romans built a good 11 aqueducts in just five centuries. Of these, only one still functions perfectly: the Acqua Vergine one. Its water can be seen flowing in front of the Spanish Steps, in the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon. Some other ancient aqueducts were restored during the Renaissance and modern age, and it is all of these that bring water to the city today. This tour will allow you to go ba... * click to read more...

Vatican Tour
(View of St.Peter Cathedral)

If you are willing to get up early in the morning to enter the Vatican Museum before it is invaded by the daily masses of thousands of tourists, you will be compensated with a visit to a semi-deserted Sistine Chapel! You, and perhaps another lucky person who chose the same tour with another private guide, will be the only ones there! That way, it will be possible to sit and enjoy the explanation directly in front of the frescoes by Michelangelo, Botticelli and the other great Masters of the Renaissance. It is up to you if you want to then continue to visit the museum or end the tour with a vi... * click to read more...

Spada Gallery Tour
(Spada Cardinal Portrait - Guido Reni)

A small but charming gallery, just a stone?fs throw from Piazza Navona, where you can admire a facade decorated with ancient plasters and blow your mind discovering the illusionist perspective designed by Borromini. The visit proceeds through a precious collection of ancient paintings including names such as Rubens, Domenichino, Annibale Carracci and many more. * click to read more...

Ancient Rome Tour
(Roman Forum)

Not many know that before the Colosseum was built, in its place were a grandiose artificial lake, gardens and luxurious palaces. Here Emperor Nero built his ‘Golden House’: la Domus Aurea. We will go back in time with our imagination and show you the historical changes of this place, walking around as we listen to stories that took place here. The tour includes the Colosseum, its terraces, the arena and the underground passageways, used by Gladiators to reach the arena and fight. Then we will walk among the ruins of the Roman and Imperial Forums, to better understand what daily and polit... * click to read more...

Bracciano Castle & Lake Tour
(Bracciano Tower View from the Village center.)

Rome is Italy?fs largest city and has a province that is just as vast. Approximately 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Capital, we will take you to a small Medieval city: Bracciano. A precious jewel, with its alleyways and ancient houses, and its breath-taking panoramas of the lake of the same name. Dominating everything is the imposing Orsini Odescalchi Castle, built in 1470, in the shape of a pentagon with grand cylindrical towers, from the top of which you can enjoy breath-taking views. In the castle, it is possible to visit the Sala dei Cesari (Hall of the Caesars), the ancient tower, th... * click to read more...

Undergrounds of St. Clemente Tour
(St. Alexius fresco)

Just 5 minutes from the Colosseum, a visit to St. Clemente’s is the best way to explore the different layers of Roman history. It is not just a church; it is a 4-level building which takes us back in time to the 1st century BC. From the ground-level medieval basilica (12th century), we will descend to the original church (4th century) and then into a temple of Mithra (2nd century) and in the end to a Roman Mint (1st century). And last, but not least, you will see and touch the fresh water of an underground stream! * click to read more...

Borghese Gallery Mithology Tour
(Enea, Anchise, Ascanio - Bernini)

For children and lovers of fairy-tales and mythology, we propose this exciting itinerary in the charming Borghese Gallery, where, while you are admiring statues and ancient paintings, you can listen to stories of the gods, satyrs, giants and other more or less illustrious characters. Borghese Gallery is surrounded by one of Rome’s largest and most beautiful parks, where you can also organise a picnic at the end of the tour. The day may also proceed with a visit to the nearby Bioparco (Zoo), where your kids can enjoy meeting animals from all over the world; animals that are not trapped in sad... * click to read more...

Seven Churches Tour
(St.Paul (outside of the Citywalls) Church)

The walk to seven Churches has been the path of Christian pilgrims for centuries to be done over three days during Easter week. For many, walking it again today may have spiritual significance, but may also be a way to discover the artistic masterpieces that each of these seven churches has to offer. The journey may include all or only a few of the following churches: S.Pietro, S.Paolo fuori le Mura, S.Giovanni, S.Croce in Gerusalemme, S.Maria Maggiore, S.Sebastiano and S.Lorenzo fuori le Mura. * click to read more...

Vatican Tour
(Swiss Guards)

If you are willing to get up early in the morning to enter the Vatican Museum before it is invaded by the daily masses of thousands of tourists, you will be compensated with a visit to a semi-deserted Sistine Chapel! You, and perhaps another lucky person who chose the same tour with another private guide, will be the only ones there! That way, it will be possible to sit and enjoy the explanation directly in front of the frescoes by Michelangelo, Botticelli and the other great Masters of the Renaissance. It is up to you if you want to then continue to visit the museum or end the tour with a vi... * click to read more...

Vatican Tour
(Entrance of the Vatican City with Swiss Guards)

When the museum closes, we will enter for a special visit to the Pontificate Galleries and the Sistine Chapel. It is a true privilege to be the only visitors of the frescoes considered as being the masterpiece of the great Master Michelangelo, to sit and admire this jewel, exceptionally illuminated just for us. * click to read more...

Vatican Tour
(St.Peter Basilica)

The tour of the Vatican is not only a visit to the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo; it’s a way of putting together a puzzle made up of centuries of Rome’s history. Our itinerary will allow you to admire artistic treasures distributed along the 6 kilometres of galleries, delving into the many stories and legends that hide themselves behind each one of them. The tour may include only the masterpieces of the Vatican, or, slightly longer, more unusual itineraries– that “hit-and-run” tourists can’t even imagine - may be taken. The tour will end with the visit to St. Peter’s Basilica. ... * click to read more...

Knights of Malta Gardens Tour
(St. Mary of the priorate)

On the city’s greenest and most silent hill stands, among others, the religious complex of the Knights of Malta. Giovan Battista Piranesi is the creator of this fascinating place: incredibly well-kept gardens that create a stupefying geometry, surrounding a mysterious church decorated with Egyptian and esoteric symbols. * click to read more...

Vatican Tour
(Swiss Guards)

The tour of the Vatican is not only a visit to the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo; it’s a way of putting together a puzzle made up of centuries of Rome’s history. Our itinerary will allow you to admire artistic treasures distributed along the 6 kilometres of galleries, delving into the many stories and legends that hide themselves behind each one of them. The tour may include only the masterpieces of the Vatican, or, slightly longer, more unusual itineraries– that “hit-and-run” tourists can’t even imagine - may be taken. The tour will end with the visit to St. Peter’s Basilica. ... * click to read more...

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