Roman Forum (Roma)

Citybreaks

Western Europe

Rome, the Eternal City Citybreaks & Excursions 4 days / 3 nights

The tour includes

4 Transfers Airport or station - hotel - Airport or station. 4 Overnight accommodation with Buffet breakfast 3 nights in at the selected hotel or similar. 4 Sightseeing Hop on-Hop off Tour, valid for 24 hours in Rome.

Introducing Rome 3 Rome will seduce you and it will hardly leave you indifferent. Rome is Italy’s capital and largest city, and while history is found all Rome ITALY around, modern life is lived to the full. It will surprise you, like a beautiful middle aged woman that has still plenty to offer and whose beauty is just been merely blurred by time passing by. Rome is one of world’s most photogenic cities. Whether you spend your time sightseeing, or lazing in cafés watching the world go by, it will be your turn to feature in your very own Roman Holiday. Rome is a romantic place for honey-mooners, favorite holiday destination, and city of fashion.

Day 1 | Origin - Rome be wrong. There is one thing you won’t world’s great art cities. In Rome, art is homewares make particularly good Upon arrival to Rome Airport or train Sta- have to worry about: being able to find literally all around you. Throughout buys. Overnight in Rome. tion you will be welcomed by our driver a nice place to eat. From family run tra- history, it has played a starring role in and then transfer to hotel. Check in and ttorias and pizzerias, to fancier, hip res- the major upheavals of Western art and Day 3 | Rome (Option: Rome Citytours) free time to stroll around the Eternal City, taurants, Rome knows how to quench the results are there for all to see – ama- Buffet Breakfast Day at leisure to con- as it is also known. You can explore the your hunger and satisfy her visitors with zing classical statues, stunning Renais- tinue visiting Rome, its streets and nei- Trastevere, discover its past and history her savoury specialties. Roman food is a sance frescoes, breathtaking baroque ghborhoods. Food and wine are central in the Roman forum, the Coliseum etc. In popular, yet simple one. It is not sophisti- churches. Walk around the centre and to Roman social life and the hundreds Rome, modern and old, past and present cated or elaborate, but generous, rich in even without trying you’ll come across of pizzerias, trattorias, restaurants and go side by side. Rome will seduce you flavours and character, and full of many masterpieces by the greats of the artis- gelaterie that crowd the city centre do and it will hardly leave you indifferent. mouth-watering recipes. Overnight in tic pantheon – sculptures by Michelan- as much business catering to locals as But there’s more to Rome than history, Rome. gelo, paintings by Caravaggio, frescoes to tourists. Do as the Romans do, says fine art and great gastronomy. Rome is the proverb, and there’s nothing more Italy’s capital and largest city, and while Fontana di Trevi (Rome) Roman than enjoying a tasty wood-fired history all around the city, modern life pizza in a packed pizzeria or dining al is lived to the full. Rome is Italy’s politi- fresco on a glorious city-centre piazza. cal and religious heartbeat and the twin You can also join one of the interesting presence of government and Church themed tour in Rome. Option: Regular dominates this great city. You can find City Tours: Imperial Rome (Arriving by many palazzi house, government offi- coach at Piazza Venezia you then conti- ces while over in the Vatican the dome nue on foot. Del Campidoglio designed by of St Peter’s Basilica serves to remind Michelangelo from where you will have a everyone of the ’s presence. The nice view of the Roman Forum. Continue Vatican, the world’s smallest sovereign by coach by the Circus Maximus and in- state, sits atop the low-lying Vatican hill side visit to the Colosseum); Artistic Rome just a few hundred metres west of the ( and the ) river . Centred on the domed bulk and Christian Rome (Basilicas of Santa of St Peter’s Basilica and Piazza San Pie- Maria Maggiore & Saint John in Lateran, tro, it contains some of Italy’s most ce- the ancient Appian Way & the Catacombs, lebrated masterpieces, many housed in the ancient underground cemeteries and the vast Vatican Museums. You’ll need at Day 2 | Rome by and fountains by Bernini. first hiding places for the Christians. A least a morning to do justice to the Va- Buffet Breakfast Today you will have the Concerning shopping, in Rome, shops visit will be made to either the Catacombs tican Museums. The highlight is the Mi- opportunity to discover this wonderful and boutiques make retail therapy di- of S. Callisto, Santa Domitilla or San Se- chelangelo-decorated Sistine Chapel, but city on your own pace by the sightsee- verting enough to distract you from the bastiano. The tour will end with a spec- there’s enough art on display to keep you ing Hop on Hop off tour. You will be incredible cityscape. Wander the backs- tacular view of the Baths of Emperor busy for years. Alos, romans love to eat. able to visit the major attractions of the treets and you’ll find yourself glancing Caraclla). Overnight in Rome. And they love to eat good food. The city Italian Capital such as: Basilica of Santa into old workshops: framers and furni- centre has the highest concentration of Maria Maggiore, Circo Massimo, Piazza ture restorers. Narrow lanes are dotted Day 4 | Rome - Origin tourists so it can quite easy to fall into the Navona, San Pedro, Piazza of Spain, etc. with beautiful boutiques and depart- Buffet Breakfast Check out from your tourist traps but if you see a restaurant With an artistic heritage dating back ment stores have an old-style glamour. hotel. Transfer to the airport for your packed with locals, go for it, as you can’t to Etruscan times, Rome is one of the Foodstuffs, handmade accessories, and return flight and end of our services. 2