Exploring a city by car and discovering it on foot create two different experiences of city life. One gives us a global vision that allows us to meet the city through a continuous unfolding of surprising images, bringing us quickly to neighborhoods and sites where we can stop to catch our breath and experience some calm. The other makes us a little like ancient pilgrims as, passing from lane to lane, we glimpse a passage opening onto a piazza and cross a widening sweep of space with the enjoyment of a gradual surprise experienced step-by-step and absorbed little-by-little. Specific areas in central Rome that are packed with archaeological and religious sites – like Saint Peter’s Basilica and other museums – require hours of exploration and discovery in order to have some sense of the meaning they held for their ancient inhabitants. Adequate time is necessary to comprehend the society, the spirituality, and the dominant ideas of the times that came together to create a specific sense of place. Because of this, our principal group itineraries in Rome group tours cover three main places of interest: first, Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums; second, Rome, Renaissance and Baroque; and third, Ancient Rome: the Forum and the Coliseum.

Special Group Tours throughout the Year

Our Rome private tours, on the other hand, allow you to explore in-depth one important area of the city, and then travel by taxi– in less than 10 minutes – to another important area for another comprehensive experience. Of course, a private car can be provided, but it is not absolutely necessary.

There are two itineraries, however, for which travel by car is absolutely necessary to access the beautiful areas further from the center of Rome. Often along routes graced with incredible panoramic views, these tours provide a fuller vision of the history of the city and its alternating expansion and contraction through the centuries. In fact, in the passage from the densely populated city of the first century AD, to the medieval and then renaissance cities, Rome mutated dramatically, not only in its population and area, but also in its building practices, and in the relationship of its people to the river, to the city walls and to the surrounding hills. The first of the two proposed tours comprises a day spent entering both churches and gardens as you visit famous places as well as lesser-known sites that are equally unforgettable. The second tour, unfolding through the evening and of shorter duration, allows you to traverse the city at a pace reminiscent of the gallop of one of the winged horses represented so often in the art of the Eternal City.

The Seven Hills of Rome by Car (5 hours)

New Private Tour of Rome at Night by Car (2 & 1/2 hours)

For a creative stroll: To walk through a city is a way of encountering time, the empty time that across the centuries has left its adornment here and there in a window casement, or in the frame of a great bronze door, or in an immense cupola vaulting into the sky. If the city is Rome, in every spot a treasure unfolds: at each corner there are palaces, inscriptions and antique columns recuperated for the present from a distant past; every turn of every road offers an incredible stratification of human history and experience. If the city is Rome, to take a walk is to undergo an extraordinary journey of encounters with the men and women of the past in the places where the wars, revolutions, festivals and passions of their lives have left their traces. In Rome you find the opportunity to leave behind, for a while, the everyday, while placing yourself before the great themes of art and of history; here, you come to terms with a sense of life and death that promises a transport into the delirium and ecstasy of beauty and of supernatural life, with a passage of time that offers unfathomable enigmas and gifts. This kind of journey is fundamental because it puts us in touch with the sources of our lives: it permits us to view the depths both inside and outside of ourselves, to circulate around and through them, to meet them face to face and, often, to be overwhelmed by them.
We want to accompany you on this journey through the images of the lives and deaths of our forbearers, to walk and envision with you the city of miracles where the marvels of life , time and humanity reside. It is our goal to help you rediscover these feelings, walking through the streets and under the skies of Rome.

Through Eternity tours is happy to provide the necessary assistance for all handicapped or disabled visitors according to accessibility at the city's archaeological sites and museums.