A Private Rome Walk Built Around You, Gelato Included

This is a private walking tour with an official licensed guide, built to your interests rather than run to a fixed script. The group is your own party and nobody else, which on a route this busy is what decides whether you hear the guide at all. The standard line runs from the Colosseum through the archaeological centre and out into the Baroque city. Piazza Venezia and the Vittoriano, whose white marble was quarried outside Rome and never weathered into the local colour, which is why it stands out against everything around it. Trajan's Column, put up in AD 113, with the Dacian campaigns carved in a spiral from bottom to top. Via dei Fori Imperiali, laid over the Imperial Forums, with the excavations on both sides. Then the Pantheon, the best preserved building of ancient Rome: a temple to all the gods, a church since the 7th century, with the oculus open to the sky at the top of the dome and Raphael's tomb inside. Piazza Navona, whose shape is the running track of Domitian's stadium underneath it, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in the middle. The obelisk on top was cut for Domitian in Rome rather than shipped from Egypt, and its hieroglyphs were carved here. The Trevi Fountain to finish. The guide brings visual material, which helps with children and with the parts that are ruins rather than buildings. An Italian gelato is included. Meet near Caffe Roma, by the upper exit of Colosseo metro station, ten minutes before the start. Bring valid photo ID: passport, identity card or driving licence. The staff hold a Living Rome Tours sign.