The Ghost Walk, Privately: Your Group and Nobody Else

The same haunted route through the old centre, with one difference that matters more than it sounds: the group is yours alone. That changes the evening in two directions. With children or teenagers who scare easily, the guide can adjust what gets told and how far it goes. With a group that wants the full version, nothing has to be softened for a stranger's eight-year-old. Questions get answered properly instead of held for the end, and the walking pace is whatever your slowest person walks at. Everyone gets the interactive Ghost Hunter Kit and is taught how to use it, and video recreations run at the stops. The route covers Campo de' Fiori, where the executions were held; Piazza Farnese and the parties the city's elite threw there; the madonnelle, the corner Madonnas installed partly to deter theft; Ponte Sisto; a fountain with a warning on it; a 17th-century church decorated with human bone; an apartment block that was one of the worst prisons in the country; a Spanish church with a scandal; a former beauty shop that sold something other than beauty; the childhood home of the city's most notorious executioner; and the bridge where the executed were displayed, now lined with angels, where the Cenci story ends. Finish it and you get a Certificate of Survival.