Our 360° group tours:

You avoid the lines: Through Eternity is an agency accredited with the Vatican and therefore we reserve our entrance tickets in advance and we are guaranteed preferential entrance without lines. The same goes for the Coliseum, the Borghese Gallery, and other sites where there may be lines.

There is a maximum of 15 participants for our group tours. This ensures a more intimate experience and direct interaction with the guide.

The guides - native English speakers or those with excellent English - have backgrounds in history, art history, or archeology. They love our cities and know them very well. They love to share their knowledge and passion with our clients.

The carefully studied itineraries are designed to optimize the visit. By reconstructing historical contexts and presenting many details, we make it easy to comprehend the archeological remains, works of art, monuments and urban spaces.

There is attention to the details, the little secrets, and the unusual but fascinating aspects of the archeological sites and the great masterpieces.

The objectives of our 360° group tours are:

The comprehension of history:

• In our tours the surprising richness is put back into history. The buildings, the works, the protagonists of the past are caught in the reality of their time, together with the activities, ideas, and typical rituals of the day, in the flux of commerce and daily life.
  
  
• The how and why of the great events that marked history receive in-depth attention, the political and social context is explored. The less famous happenings that are nonetheless significant for the course of history are likewise examined through the traces they have left.
  
  
• The political, administrative, and religious institutions of the past are caught in the crucial moments of their evolution in order to shed light on our present and its deep roots.
  
  
• For example, in our tour of the Coliseum we occupy ourselves fully with the gladiators, we lead you to discover how and where they trained, who they were and where they came from, but at the same time, we also try to understand who were the Roman fans of this or that gladiator, what were the reasons for the diffusion of these games in the complex multi-ethnic society of the time, and how this huge collective ritual that was promoted by imperial propaganda helped to contain the turbulence of a vast empire.

The appreciation of art

• Art can be a great journey, a journey into the worlds represented by the artists of all times, in their various languages and through the diverse ways in which art communicates something fleeting and intangible in our lives, that which we cannot simply name, or do, or be. Art recounts to man something typically human that is more than just the techniques, the rules, the knowledge on which it is profoundly based. These latter must be crossed in order to reach that mysterious element, that fork in the road that can bring us to a new world, to reveal a new face, to unveil a light and a new perspective. If you want it is something  that incites compassion without being a sorrow, that inspires enthusiasm without being joy, that brings us to a more intense dimension without being love, that something is intrinsically bound to how things are said and painted, not just what is said or portrayed.
  
  
• To enter into this language, to help you realize and appreciate its fundamental characteristics will be part of our job, because we believe that the experience of art can be greatly enriching for every one of us.
  
  
• The content of the art, that which it represents, the role of art in society, its varying importance in the different epochs, the role of the artist and his evolution from artisan to artist in the modern sense are also themes that we treat in our tours.
  
  
• For example, in our tour of the Vatican Museums we give ample space to the explanation of techniques, figures, and ideas that went into Michelangelo's frescoes on the vault of the Sistine Chapel, ample space to the explanation of the historical context, and the cultural ferment of the time, but we also dedicate ourselves to helping you appreciate the particular and singular manner in which only he painted figures, the force of the gestures of these figures, the and dramatic and shattering intensity with which they create a space for divine force, and the phases in which Michelangelo was so caught up in the vortex of his own inspiration that he developed his own new techniques. You will discover for instance why he used an overabundance of yellow in the clothing of Christ's ancestors (the reasons are historical), but also why he superimposed the colors (the reasons are expressive). You will be drawn into the contemplation of how and why this subject of Creation, so frequently painted and with notable success hundreds of times, in his hands during this particular historical epoch of the Renaissance, with the bottomless force of his creativity, became an immortal wonder.