Your tour guide in Rome

16/03/2025

Some pics from the exhibition dedicated to flowers. If you come to Rome go to see it at Bramante Courtyard just around the corner from Piazza Navona

01/03/2025

Is Villa Torlonia on your list of places to check out in Rome? Let me take you around this fascinating place. :)

10/02/2025

https://www.lartisien.com/blog/rome-with-valeria-merlini-and-prince-prospero-colonna/

An art restorer best known for her work on Caravaggio’s The Pilgrims’ Madonna in situ at the Church of Sant’Agostino, learn about Valeria Merlini here

08/02/2025

«Most English people, with memories of Shakespeare, look for the place in the Forum where Mark Antony made his speech and where the sorrowing mob, dragging out the chairs of the magistrates and anything that would ignite, burnt the co**se there and then, refusing to allow the funeral cortege to go on to the Campus Martius. And this place is quite easy to find. It's almost in line with, and to the north of, the three remaining white columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, which are one of the landmarks in the Forum.»
H. V. Morton «A Traveller in Rome»

09/01/2025

Morning and evening in the Vatican. Just to remind you, if somebody has forgotten. Holy year, the holy door is open, everything is very sumptuous and beautiful. Even the Christmas tree is still decorated and the nativity scenes are in all their glory :)

06/01/2025

Winter in Rome

06/01/2025

Eternal magnificence

04/01/2025

04/01/2025

Just walking around

29/12/2024

Caravaggio in Rome (2-3 hours by foot)

I recommend this tour to art lovers who wish to enjoy the atmosphere of the ancient city, where the young and incredibly talented Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived, worked, fell in love and embarked on mischievous adventures. I will show you the neighborhood where he created his first masterpieces and where he fought duels. Amongst the luxury palaces juxtaposed with the poor buildings, narrow dark streets, tiny crowded taverns, and ancient roman churches, we will find his greatest works.

Hello, I am Anna. I am a licensed tour guide for Rome and the Vatican. +39 3384154145

19/12/2024

Christmas time in Rome

12/12/2024

"The old men are sitting in the sun, under a tree. We walk to the parapet, and suddenly are looking into one of the most delightful landscapes I have ever seen: as it were, into the very virginity of hilly green country. It is all wheat-green and soft and swooping, swooping down and up, and glowing with green newness, and no houses".
D.H.Lawrence "Etruscan Places" - Tarquinia

09/12/2024

Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE) , the third of the so-called Five Good Emperors, was passionate about figurative arts, poetry, literature and architecture. He initiated the construction of many important buildings in Rome and contributed his own stylistic touch to the vast residential complex outside of the capital that he decided to create as his own country retreat . Hadrian's Villa included palaces, baths, temples, theatre, stadium, gardens, fountains and nymphaeums.
Significant portions of the complex have survived to modern times. Now it is considered one of the most important archaeological parks in the world . It is situated in the lovely town of Tivoli, about 30 km from Rome. Hadrian’s Villa was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999. Let's discover together this amazing place!
Your personal tour guide in Rome and Vatican City
Anna +393384154145

06/12/2024

Ovid on picking up a girl at the Circus Maximus from his Ars Amatoria (Art of Love)
Furthermore, don't overlook the meetings when horses are running;
In the crowds at the track opportunity waits.
There is no need for a code of finger-signals or nodding.
Sit as close as you like; no one will stop you at all.
In fact, you will have to sit close - that's one of the rules, at a race track.
Whether she likes it or not, contact is part of the game.
Try to find something in common, to open the conversation;
Don't care too much what you say, just so that every one hears.
Ask her, 'Whose colors are those?' - that's good for an opening gambit.
Put your own bet down, fast, on whatever she plays.
Then, when the gods come along in procession, ivory, golden,
Outcheer every young man, shouting for Venus, the queen.
Often it happens that dust may fall on the blouse of the lady.
If such dust should fall, carefully brush it away.
Even if there's no dust, brush off whatever there isn't.
Any excuse will do: why do you think you have hands?
If her cloak hangs low, and the ground is getting dirty,
Gather it up with care, lift it a little, so!
Maybe by way of reward, and not without her indulgence,
You'll be able to see ankle or possibly knee.
Then look around and glare at the fellow who's sitting behind you,
Don't let him crowd his knees into her delicate spine.
Girls, as everyone knows, adore these little attentions:
Getting the cushion just right, that's in itself quite an art;
Yes, and it takes a technique in making a fan or your program
Or in fixing a stool under the feet of a girl.
Such is the chance of approach the race track can offer a lover.

02/12/2024

Buon appetito :)

02/12/2024

Campo dei Fiori is always a perfect start to the day