VIP Rome Driving Tour - City Highlights & Best Views

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Meet your expert tour guide, and your private driver, at the Colosseum. As your guide regales you with the history of the ancient amphitheater, emperors and gladiators, get a comfortable seat and relax! It’s time to see the very best of Rome…

In the next three hours, you’ll see more than most tourists do in three days, including Rome’s most amazing and world-famous sights as well as off-the-beaten-path gems. Stop at Circus Maximus and imagine the crowd of 70,000 ancient spectators roaring at the racing charioteers. Gaze up at the ruins on Palatine Hill and listen to your guide recreate the opulent, magnificent palaces that once stood here. At the “Mouth of Truth,” see the grimacing stone face that startled Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Get the truth behind Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons as you drive past the famed Castel Sant’Angelo and its secret passageway, the Passetto. Grab some great photos of the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica, all while hearing some of the most fascinating anecdotes behind this all-important seat of religion and power. 

Along with Rome’s highlights, you’ll hit some of the most beautiful views the city has to offer. Since they’re out of the historic center, and harder to get to on your own, most tourists never even make it to these lookout spots. You’ll think that’s a shame when you see just how gorgeous Rome looks from the top of the Janiculum Hill, with its sweeping view of everything from St. Peter’s to the Pantheon! The neatest photo op around, though, might just be the Aventine keyhole. This off-the-beaten-path trick is one that Romans love showing to their out-of-town friends: Through the keyhole of the Priory of the Knights of Malta, you get a perfect view of the dome of St. Peter’s… and therefore, of three countries in one look!

Discover Rome's ancient public baths built in the early 3rd century A.D. under the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Drive past the pyramid of Gaius Cestius, a 1st century B.C. funerary monument that will make you think you’re in Egypt!  See the Tiber Island and admire the charming ruin of Rome's oldest stone bridge, il Ponte Rotto.

Your panoramic guided drive ends at Piazza Navona, back in the heart of Rome’s beautiful and bustling centro storico.

The Rome Driving Tour: It's a fun and relaxing way to discover the Eternal City!