PhotoSleuths© Photography Tours in
Rome
These private tours
offer participants an authentic city adventure and rare
opportunity to experience Rome from an insider’s point of view.
Your professional photographic guide will point out details
invisible to the untrained eye and reveal the best vantage-points
on your chosen route. Learn to tell a story through images, take
great shots of iconic monuments and capture atmospheric images off
the beaten track.
Be ready for the unexpected, on an Adventure thru the Lens.
Select one of the following carefully planned routes or let our
photographer alter any of the below routes to meet your specific
needs and interest.
Private
Tours
Private Tour
PhotoSleuths© Tours - Hidden Rome
Departures: Mon - Sat 9am – 1pm or
2pm -6pm
Note: Sunset Tour at 6-9pm
offered from 4/1/ to 10/31
Meet point:
East Side (Piazza Ponte S.Angelo) of the Sant' Angelo
bridge.
End : Piazza Santa Maria in
Trastevere
Languages: English, Italian
Tour Fee : 300 Euros (1-4 pax)
We begin our adventure at Ponte Sant'Angelo the chief site of
executions in Rome built by the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd Century
A.D. The most celebrated being the 22 year old Beatrice Cenci who
was decapitated by the sword along with her step mother in 1599
for murdering their lecherous father. Legend has it that every
year on the night before her death, she came back to the bridge
carrying her severed head. It appeared in Dan Brown's 2000 novel
Angels and Demons and is the last existing church of the
Illuminati.
We will walk through Via dei Banchi Vecchian, ancient street once
home to Florentine bankers as well as Via Giulia where there are
and plenty of interesting churches.
We’ll visit Piazza Farnese the setting of Puccini's opera Tosca,
with its 16th Century Palazzo and two magnificent fountains made
from two giant basins originally from the Baths of Caracalla.
Then off to Campo di Fiori, where we will see where Giordano Bruno
was burnt at the stake as a heretic. You’ll walk through winding
streets and arrive at Palazzo Spada and see Boromino's
"perspective".
Before crossing the Ponte Sisto to Trastevere with its labyrinth
of streets, refurbished buildings, art galleries, trendy bars and
local atmosphere like Piazza Trilussa a popular meeting place for
locals.
If time we finish at the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere the
eponymous church in the square which is thought to be the first
Christian temple in Rome. Built on the spot where in 38 B.C. oil
sprang from the ground which was said to be a sign of the coming
of Christ.
Private Tour
PhotoSleuths© Tours - The Grand Tour
Departures (All Year) : Mon -
Sat 9am – 1pm or 2pm-6pm Summer Only
Note: Sunset Tour at 6-9pm
offered from 4/1/ to 10/31
Meeting point: At Campidoglio
- Under the Bronze Statue of Marcus Aurelius.
End : Pincio
Languages: English, Italian
Tour Fee : 300 Euros (1-4 pax)
On this tour you will photograph some of the great monuments of
Rome starting at the Campidolio, Piazza Navona, Pantheon, Temple
Adriano, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Villa Medici, Piazza dei
Popolo from Pincio.
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Additional Information
•
Participants must have a basic knowledge of their cameras.
• We reserve the right to change the route based on local
conditions.
• Tours leave rain or shine. In extreme conditions please call
the local number.
• We suggest good walking shoes, a lightweight poncho, in case
it rains and in high temperatures a small bottle of water &
sun hat.
• A lightweight tripod is recommended for evening sessions
• Clients who have not booked this activity in conjunction with
a hotel are advised to provide contact details.
• Cancellation fees may apply.
