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Early bird or Afternoon food tour in Rome

Join this private food tour of Rome to try the most delicious nibbles while walking past some of the best attractions of the center. Whether morning or afternoon, it’s the perfect choice to taste the best Roman flavours and sightsee the historical center simultaneously.

To begin with the meeting point of the morning tour is by the Sixtus Bridge, a key connection between the two banks of the river. From there, a very short walk will take you to Nonna Vincenza, a traditional cafe to start off your day with a typical breakfast: cappuccino coupled with a pastry, filled with cream or ricotta cheese.

Then, you get to the vibrant street market in Campo de’ Fiori, to snack on bread topped with different sauces, and dive into the lively ambience the place has to offer. After that, we make our way to the old Jewish Quarter, to have a really unique specialty: the carciofo alla giudia, a deep fried artichoke made only here in Rome.

This private food tour of Rome continues on towards Piazza Navona, stopping both at a local deli for a plate of assorted cold cuts and cheeses, and ends at the Pantheon, with a juicy supplì, a ball of rice breaded and fried.

The afternoon tour starts at Piazza Mattei instead, and its first stop is the Jewish Quarter, to try the carciofo alla giudia, a deep fried artichoke which is traditional in Rome. From there, we walk towards the Pantheon, and have a slice of pizza on the way. Then stop at a local deli for a plate of assorted cold cuts and cheeses.

After that, you’ll enjoy a juicy supplì nearby and get to Piazza Navona, to sit in a fine restaurant and enjoy a 3-course dinner: starter, flute of prosecco, two pasta dishes, coffee. This is where the tour is completed.

Questions? Check our FAQ section, you might find the answer there. And if you don’t, email us to info@turtletourrome.com

The ultimate dessert tour of Rome

This dessert tour of Rome will make you taste the typical sweets of our capital city. At the same time, you will discover some of its famous sights, while learning interesting stories about the Eternal City. It’s a food tour all about sweetness!

The meeting point with your tour guide is at the exit of the metro station OTTAVIANO (A line), a stone’s throw from the Vatican City. You start off your journey into sweetness at the bakery La Dolce Maniera, where you can have a foamy cappuccino, together with a lovely Maritozzo con la Panna (a pastry roll filled with whipped cream). If you’re wondering… yes you can dunk it into the cappuccino!

After this delicious breakfast, you will have time to visit Saint Peter’s Square, learn about the story of the Papacy in Rome, and enjoy a refreshing drink while sightseeing.. Then this dessert tour of Rome continues on with a stop at the Castel Sant’Angelo, to take a picture of this magnificent building. Here your guide will tell you the secrets of the place, which had many different functions, such as mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian, fortress of the Popes, and prison…

After all, it’s gelato time. Located on Via dei Coronari, one of the most picturesque alleyways of the city center, la Gelateria del Teatro offers a great selection of flavours, coupled with them all freshly made right in front of you!

Then, on the way to Piazza Navona, we’ll stop to taste on the most iconic Italian dessert, the famous Tiramisù. Once reached Piazza Navona, your guide will point out the most significant items on the square, and lead you further to get to the Pantheon, where the tour ends.

It wouldn’t be a true Italian dessert tour, though, if we weren’t to have an espresso before finishing the tour! The right place is exactly the Pantheon, with two renown cafes (Sant’Eustachio and la Tazza d’Oro) nearby.

Jubilee tour in golf cart: following the Apostle

This Jubilee private tour in Golf Cart of Rome allows you to see some of Rome’s legendary places such as where the life of Saint Peter happened. Moreover, you’ll be hitting the some less known churches, to learn about the early Christian communities.

Our Jubilee tour in golf cart departs at 9:50am on Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, located in the Monti District. Following, a short ride that takes you to the Church San Pietro in vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) where you will see, among other things, Michelangelo’s imposing Moses. In this church you will begin your approach with the Jubilee by admiring the chains that bound st. Peter’s wrists.

Continuing our Jubilee tour, together with our Golf Cart will take you to the church Santo Stefano Rotondo, one of the oldest in Rome. Santo Stefano Rotondo (‘round shape’) owns its name to the peculiar shape it was built in, with attention to the altar located in the middle of the church and surrounded by columns. The most important masterpiece inside the church is the series of 34 frescoes dedicated to the martyrdom of various saints.

The next stop on our Jubilee tour in Golf cart will take you to the church Domine quo vadis, built on the spot where, according to the legend, St Peter, who was fleeing Rome to avoid crucifixion, met Jesus and asked him ‘Lord, where are you going?’ (hence the name of the church). A rock is kept in the church that allegedly bears the footprints of Jesus.

The last stop of our Golf Cart tour is the catacombs San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian), where you can truly experience the spirit of the Jubilee. Already used as a pagan burial site, the Catacombs of St Sebastian were transformed into a Christian necropolis towards the end of the 2nd Century, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. Your guide will drop you off at the entrance and you’ll visit the site on a tour (not private but small group) led by a guide provided by the catacombs.

To conclude this Jubilee Golf Cart tour in the historical center, where you’ll be dropped off at your hotel or anywhere else you like.

Entry tickets included.

Drop-off service available only in the city centre.

Reduced price for groups only if there are three participants or more. With 4 to 5 people, we may run the tour on one or two golf carts. 6 to 8 people, the tour will run on two golf carts. 9 to 10 people, we may run the tour on two or three golf carts.

All our golf carts are equipped with rain cover.

Questions? Check our FAQ section, you might find the answer there. And if you don’t, email us to info@turtletourrome.com

Jubilee tour in golf cart: relics and martyrs

This Jubilee private tour in Golf Cart of Rome allows you to see some of Rome’s legendary places previously connected with the life of the early Christian communities and their martyrs, seeing some of the most significant relics housed in amazing old churches.

Our Jubilee tour in Golf Cart starts at 9:50am in front of the Basilica San Clemente (Holy Mary in Via Lata), then you will meet the guide who’ll lead you through the underground passages. The Basilica offers the unique opportunity of experiencing different levels of Rome‘s past. Below the church, finished in the Middle Ages, you’ll find another IV Century church containing some of the world’s finest medieval frescoes and the relics of Saint Clemens, third Christian Pope, who died as a martyr around !00 A.D.

After that this legendary place, this Jubilee tour in golf cart will take you to the Basilica Santa Prassede, renowned for its mosaics dating back to the 9th Century, the best preserved mural complex of the early Middle Ages. Moreover, in a side chapel you’ll discover the column of the flagellation of Christ, one of the most important relics of the entire Christianity.

Then the next stop of this Golf Cart Jubilee tour is the Basilica Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Holy Cross in Jerusalem), one of the seven churches hit on the traditional pilgrimage route. The basilica houses several relics traditionally associated with the Passion: the Titulus Crocis, the panel hung on Christ’s Cross, two thorns of the Crown, a nail, and three fragments of the True Cross.

Our Golf Cart tour for the Jubilee isn’t finished yet, as it also includes the next stop the Scala Santa (Holy Stairs). Brought to Rome by Emperor Constantine’s mother Saint Helena, according to the Catholic Church tradition, the Holy Stairs were the steps Jesus Christ walked up on to meet Pontius Pilate and face trial. The stairs may only be ascended on the knees, as an act of devotion to relive the Passion of Christ.

After that last stop this Jubilee tour in Golf Cart ends in the historical center, where you’ll be dropped off at your hotel or anywhere else you like.

Entry tickets included.

Drop-off service available only in the city centre.

Reduced price for groups of three participants or more. With 4 to 5 people, we may run the tour on one or two golf carts. 6 to 8 people, the tour will run on two golf carts. 9 to 10 people, we may run the tour on two or three golf carts.

All our golf carts are equipped with rain cover.

Questions? Check our FAQ section, you might find the answer there. And if you don’t, email us to info@turtletourrome.com

Rome in a day with lunch

This half-day tour of Rome by Golf Cart lets you see all of Rome’s attractions, with your lunch already sorted out and paid for.

This private half-day Golf Cart tour of Rome starts at your hotel – as long as it is located in the city centre. After you’ve met your tour guide, we start zipping through Ancient Rome’s highlights, with the most known sites of the Eternal City: We reach the Colosseum, then proceed further to the massive remains of the Baths of Caracalla, after which we eventually stop at Circus Maximus for an astonishing view of the imperial palaces on the Palatine Hill.

From a great view to another, we get to the Aventine Hill, one of the legendary Seven Hills of Rome, to walk into the Orange Garden, which offers the perfect lookout to enjoy the city from above.

From there, we whiz to Piazza Venezia, featuring the impressive Vittoriano, toss a coin into the water and the famous Trevi Fountain, and hit the jewel of baroque: Piazza Navona, with the stunning Fountain of the four Rivers realised by Bernini.

At about 12:00 noon your tour guide will take you to the restaurant you’ve chosen for lunch: a contemporary Italian restaurant, or a Michelin starred restaurant, for an incredible food experience, consisting of a set menu of 3 courses created by the chef, using fresh produce from the market. Please take note that the Michelin starred restaurant is available only from Monday to Friday.

This half-a-day private Golf Cart tour of Rome then resumes around 1pm, to cover the other attractions you will have missed so far: the Vatican City, to admire the Saint Peter’s Basilica and the square it stands on, in addition to the Castle of Saint Angelo, a majestic building with over 19 hundred years of history, towering right next to the river.

Pick-up and drop-off service available only in the city centre.

All our golf carts are equipped with rain cover.

Questions? Check our FAQ section, you might find the answer there. If you don’t, email us to info@turtletourrome.com

San Clemente, Roman Houses and Baths of Caracalla

This private tour hits three of the best preserved and also fascinating archeological sites of Rome. It operates only few days a week, when all three attractions are open to public, and it lasts 3 hours.

This private walking tour firstly, starts at the entrance of the Basilica San Clemente, which offers the unique opportunity of experiencing different levels of Rome’s past. Below the church, finished in the Middle Ages, you’ll find another IV Century church containing some of the world’s finest medieval frescos. Going further below, there’s a Mithraic temple dating back to the II Century A.D., part of an older edifice that was built in the I Century A.D.

After the visit, a short walk through the Arch of Dolabella will take you to the Caelian Hill, one of the proverbial seven hills of Rome, which houses one of the most amazing treasures the Eternal City has to offer: a residential building that comprises over 20 rooms, mainly underground, spread on different levels. Some of the rooms are frescoed with paintings dating between the 3rd century AD and the Middle Ages. A hidden gem very few people know about, that will make you travel to the time of the Roman Empire.

Then, it’s time to make our way along the Villa Celimontana and reach the Baths of Caracalla, the second largest bathhouse of Ancient Rome, and by far the best preserved. It dates back to the III Century A.D., and it was realised during the reign of the emperor Caracalla (hence the name). You will be able to walk among the massive ruins of the complex, that featured 4 different pools and number of gyms, locker rooms, and other areas, learn about social life in Ancient Rome, and see some of the artworks and mosaics that decorated the place.

Our cancellation policy is 48 hours for a full refund. Please note that entry tickets are not refundable.

Appian way Ebike tour

This private Appian Way Ebike Tour makes you discover the beauty of the most important of ancient Roman roads, built over 2300 years ago and extremely well preserved, the Appia Antica, Regina Viarum (the queen of the roads). It was a key connection between Rome and southern Italy, where the commercial routes to Greece and Middle East departed from.

We start at our office, located on Piazza Mattei, and before getting to the Appian Way, you stop at the Circus Maximus, the biggest stadium of all time, and enjoy a view of the Palatine Hill.

The private Appian Way Ebike Tour then proceeds to the Baths of Caracalla, and heads south riding past the Roman Tombs of Scipio and passing the Aurelian Walls through the Porta San Sebastiano, the largest and best preserved of all Roman gates. From here begins the Appian Way. We continue alongside the road, stopping at the Church of Domine Quo Vadis and at the Catacombs of Saint Callixtus and San Sebastian, to learn about the life of the early Christian communities.

Next stop of this Appian Way ebike tour is at the ruins of the Complex of Massenxius, and we get to the magnificent Tomb of Cecilia Metella. Alongside the road, stand many tombs and ruins, up to the remains of the Villa of the Quintili.

Discounted price for larger groups.

Best of Rome by Ebike

This Rome Ebike private tour will take you to some of the best highlights of the Eternal City as well as to amazing panoramic points. You won’t get tired of cycling thanks to the comfort and the help of our Ebikes, and since the tour is private you can change the itinerary as per your wishes.

This private tour of Rome by Ebike starts either in the morning or in the afternoon at one our shops: Largo Argentina (the very center) or Trastevere. From there, we ride through the old Jewish Quarter to listen to some interesting stories about the oldest Jewish community of the western world. Then we head for the Forum Boarium and ride up to the Aventine Hill to visit the Orange Garden, which offers an amazing lookout over the city.

Afterwards, the Rome Ebike private tour we stop at the Circus Maximus, the huge stadium for the chariot races, also to look at the remains of the imperial palaces on the Palatine Hill. We reach the Colosseum, and after riding along the Roman Forum we admire Piazza Venezia, where the national monument of Italy is located. Our next stops are the Trevi Fountain then the Spanish Steps, centre of the shopping district.

We proceed further to Piazza Navona, the Pantheon and reach the Vatican City after crossing the river and looking at the Castel of Saint’Angelo, before getting back to the office.

Reduced price for groups of three or more participants.