Tour details

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 for this dessert tour of Rome is the quaint neighbourhood of Borgo Pio, a stone’s throw from the Vatican City. You start off your journey into sweetness at the bakery Federico Prodon Patisserie. You will have a foamy cappuccino, matched 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, and learn about the story of the Papacy in Rome. 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: mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian, fortress of the Popes, prison…

After that, 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, all freshly made right in front of you!

After a brief stop at Piazza Navona, where your guide will point out the most significant items on the square, this dessert tour of Rome hits Piazza san Lorenzo in Lucina, where you’ll try the famous “special coffee”, without question the most special and tasty coffee you’ve ever had!

Finally, on the way to the Spanish Steps, you’ll stop to taste a typical Italian dessert, worldwide famous: the tiramisù, and for this stop Pompi is a guarantee! This is where the tour ends, as the Spanish Steps are one of the most central locations and you can easily get a taxi or catch the subway from there.