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. No vehicle is included: if your hotel is central the host walks to you, and if not you meet at the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli.