Rome Custom Walk Built Around a Questionnaire You Fill In

There is no fixed route on this one, which is the product rather than a caveat. After booking you complete a short questionnaire, and the answers go to the licensed local guide you are matched with, who builds the walk around what you wrote. Someone who wants buried ruins gets a different afternoon from someone who wants to sit in a square with a cappuccino and watch the city work, and both are valid uses of a private guide. The places that tend to come up give the flavour: Monti, one of the oldest quarters, with workshops and narrow lanes; the small piazza of the Madonna dei Monti, where people actually sit by the fountain in the evening; the Jewish Ghetto, with its bakeries and its history; Via del Pellegrino, cobbled and quiet, lined with family trattorias; an open-air market; and Trastevere across the river to finish. What holds it together is a host who lives here and adjusts as the walk goes, rather than a script that has to be got through. If your hotel is not on the pickup list, the meeting point in Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli is central and easy to reach.