From being young I have always had a passion for Art and the way some special people expressed themselves through it: music, archaeology, history, architecture, poetry and literature have always been my favourite subjects.

All of this gives me today a deeper comprehension of the works in museums and a great joy at sharing it with people.

After eighteen years as a licensed guide, showing museums, art collections and churches in Rome, I still enjoy sharing what I have learnt and I do not mind customizing tours according to clients requests.

This work gives me the opportunity to meet many people from different backgrounds: I have lectured for National Geographic and Smithsonian, I tought Renaissance and Baroque Art for an american university in Rome, I lead tours for Roman groups and for tourists and I am not yet tired!

All of this makes me strongly believe to have chosen the best work possible in the most beautiful city in the world: Rome!

- Art History graduate from Università La Sapienza di Roma
- Licensed tour guide of Rome
- I can organize a customized tours (full day or half day) with luxury private car and driver.

If my calendar is full, feel free to contact me, I'll be happy to help you!
I am not a driver. I can arrange for a private car and driver.

This is the most comprehensive tour of the Vatican's Museums I can offer you.
I love what I do and the statues never stop whispering me ancient stories, stories and anecdotes that I can't wait to tell you!

You will have the chance to visit the Cabinet of Masks exclusively, with a special tickets, it will reveal you a section of the museums that you will be able to admire far from the crowd, to give you a taste of what it was like when they were admitted only few and highly selected guests: a real privilege!

Following, the wonderful galleries where statues and portraits will bring you to a face to face meeting with the Roman and Greek culture, they will take us to the highest Renaissance expression with Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
A timeless beauty that amazes now as much as then!

Afterwards we will visit Saint Peter's Basilica, the largest church in the world, the core of Christianity and beyond. Art and history make it the most thrilling place in Rome

Amazing Vatican Experience: Half Day Private Tour with Skip the Line tickets

Why is Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel so extraordinary? Is it really so important? This tour will lead you to the understanding of one of the capital masterpieces of the Western Arts.
Ordered in 1475 by Sixtus IV, the new and grander papal chapel showed the pride of the spiritual and secular authority of the pontiffs; but this monument was as well going to change radically, reaching its amazing peak with Renaissance art.

This tour illustrates the evolution of the Vatican territory from a pagan cemetery to a medieval castle and then into the cradle of the renovation of Modern Art through the masterpieces of the most incredible artists of all times: Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Bernini.

You will as well discover the reasons and consequences of thecrisis of the Catholic Church and the radical critics moved by Luther. The following Reformation led then to a spiritual and artistic renovation as shown by the architectural wonders of S. Peter Basilica conceived by Michelangelo and Bernini!

Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, S. Peter Basilica: Michelangelo's triumph

Discover where in Rome the Apostle Paul spent the last years of his life!

A fervent preacher of the Gospel, he was arrested in 59 AD in Jerusalem under the charge of raising turmoil: as a roman citizen he appealed to the Supreme Court in Rome where he was judged not guilty in 62 AD.

Where did he live in those years? Was he a convict or still a free man? How could he evangelize more people if a detainee? Where was his prison located? What were his letters like? Where did he die?

With this tour you will have the chance to discover the archaeological evidence of Paul's presence in Rome discerning facts from later pious legends. But you will as well the opportunity to visit some of the most fascinating although almost unknown monuments of the city: among them his PRISON, the CATACOMB where his body was recovered, the magnificent memorial BASILICA OF S. PAUL built over his tomb. 

Tour guide in Rome Rosanna S.

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