The Mission and Vision of our Tours in and around Rome

We at Through Eternity believe that travelling, and discovering other lands and cultures, is of inestimable value. Bread, the making of the sign of the cross, laws, and love… all of these have a long history. Michelangelo’s Pietà, Raphael’s Transfiguration of Christ and Bernini’s David all tell stories, and they tell them in a very particular manner. They tell us of the extraordinary artists of times past that have profoundly influenced our society. We come into this world naked, yet imbued with a certain culture. Travelling is a way of rediscovering our roots, of gaining a wider perspective of art, of absorbing a sense of history as told by the piazzas, the churches, the paintings and the frescoes of 2000 years ago. Optimizing your time in well-planned and concentrated itineraries, with us you will see and experience the very best of what Rome has to offer. You will return home all the richer, all the wiser, and not only with a stack of gorgeous photos, but a suitcase full of emotions, inspirations, and ideas as well. Our guides are qualified professionals, passionate teachers, and gifted storytellers. Everything is taken care of for you. The only thing left for you to do is to soak in the experience and the beauty of Rome, living out your dreams in this land of art and history.

Our Guides Our mission

We believe that to have a true experience of historical sites, it is necessary to bring to life - on the spot - the ideas, emotions, and rhythms of life that shaped the lives of our ancestors. Through an awareness of their political, social and religious struggles, and through the culture and the personalities of great artists, we approach the past as though it is alive once more in the present. Only in this way can we carry back to our everyday lives, to both our intangible and tangible worlds, a living experience that touches the heart and enriches the mind. This is the task that we are resolved to fulfil.

In the same way, to have an experience of art, one must immerse oneself in a painting: in the story that it tells, in its colours, in the strong emotions with which it was painted, and in the relationships that are developed on canvas between the people depicted there. To comprehend Michelangelo’s Pieta, one must come to know Michelangelo and the great revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance; one must discover how in the Renaissance, for the first time, the embrace between the Madonna and Christ is presented as intense and human. This solid embrace is represented by Michelangelo in the most dramatic moment of life: when Mary holds between her arms the body of her dead son. With this fantastic sculpture and this tender and enigmatic embrace, Michelangelo reinforces the mystery or faith – for the believers - in the earthly passage of the Son of God and in our human and divine nature.

This is our mission. We sincerely believe that the experience of art can enrich and illuminate your life and that art can put us in contact with a wider humanity and help us to encounter other men as well as our deepest selves.

Rome was born on the Tiber river, not by chance, near the island which offered the easiest crossing of the river. Here flourished a market where people stopped to exchange goods, chat, fall in love and to give rise to a long history of institutions, religions, empires and dreams. Our private tours Rome breathe life into the sites allowing you to relive the cheers of the crowds at the Colosseum, to meet the gladiators and understand who they were, how the games were carried out and acquaint you with the society that made them famous. You will learn the techniques that were utilized to construct, in little more than ten years, such an extraordinary and yet functional building. Our private tours Rome help you to understand Rome as it was then, what the Romans were like and how they developed the Etruscan tradition of human sacrifice into the bloody spectacle of gladiatorial contests.

Our Rome private tourare the best way to enjoy the infinite power and beauty of Michelangelo’s and Raphael’s frescoes and to experience the new age that was the Renaissance. Come to learn why, after years of decline, there was a surge in population and a resurgence of the city. What was this truly new spirit ushered in by the Renaissance that infused the life and work of the contemporary artist? Did these artists really see the world and God with new eyes and possess a truly new life-rhythm?.

Our Rome guided tours will immerse you in the visions, struggles and passions of artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini and Borromini. On our guided tours Rome you will be among the crowds that celebrated the Roman democratic reforms of 449 BC , in which the Laws of the Twelve Tablets were publicly posted on the monuments of the Forum, thus making the Roman patricians more accountable as lawmakers. Our Rome group tour allows to watch the construction of the first aqueduct and the first Roman road, the Appian Way, in the 4th century BC. On our Rome group tour you will be there, on March 15th 44 BC, on the side of one of the two factions that were disputing the destiny of Rome after the murder of Julius Caesar. On our Rome group tours you will attend the solemn Mass for the Inauguration of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel on 1st November 1512. On our group tours Rome you will be amongst the thousands of people who converged on the Ponte St. Angelo to see the head of Beatrice Cenci fall in a brutal execution on September 11, 1599. Our Rome Private tours takes you to the Campo dei Fiori to protest the death of Giordano Bruno who, by order of the Inquisition, was burned at the stake on February 17, 1600.

Rome group tours, to return home not only with splendid photos, but enriched by the emotions, ideas, stories and legends that will give you a new outlook on the present. Rome group tours and Rome private tours to discover others and oneself through art. Rome group tours and Rome private tours, two different ways to exchange knowledge with a friend in Rome, two equally enriching ways to experience the city which we invite you to explore in order to really travel, marvel and dream.

We await you in Rome.