Rome 8 Day Program

Rome, Italy

8 Days/6 Nights

 

DAY 1: HOME – ROME

Board your flight and begin the journey to Italy.

 

DAY 2: ROME

Benvenuti in Italia! Meet your Italian Prometour Tour Director at the arrivals section of Rome airport.

Transfer by motor coach to the hotel to drop off your luggage, check-in will be done later.

While in Rome, do as the Romans do by walking and taking public transportation to get around the city.

Have lunch on your own.

Enter and marvel at the construction and beauty of the Pantheon, one of Rome’s best preserved ancient buildings. Non-guided

Enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with your group.

Overnight accommodation in Rome.

 

DAY 3: ROME & VATICAN CITY

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Join the crowd in St Peter’s Square to experience the Pope’s public blessing. Wednesday mornings

Have lunch on your own.

Visit the impressive Vatican Museums including the Raphael Rooms, Tapestry Gallery and Sistine Chapel. Guided

Enter the Papal Basilica of St Peter, the largest church in the world. Catholic tradition holds that it is the burial site of Saint Peter. Non-guided

Enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with your group.

Overnight accommodation in Rome.

 

DAY 4: ROME

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Discover the most monumental elements of this majestic city that will bring the spirit of Ancient Rome to life. Enter the Colosseum where gladiators once battled, go to the Roman Imperial Forum, and walk through the Roman Forum ending at the Palatine Hill. Guided

Have lunch on your own.

Explore Trajan’s Market; built between the years 100 and 110 A.D, the ruins are believed to represent the first covered shopping mall in history. Non-guided

Make a wish as you toss a coin in the Trevi Fountain, legend says it will one day bring you back to Rome.

Enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with your group.

Overnight accommodation in Rome.

 

DAY 5: ROME

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Explore the impressive Capitoline Museums. Its creation can be traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the people of Rome. Non-guided

Have lunch on your own.

With your Tour Director, discover the Jewish Ghetto of Rome, the oldest Jewish community in Europe. See the Teatro Marcello, Fontane delle Tartarughe, la Bocca della Verità, and the Great Synagogue.

Enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with your group.

Overnight accommodation in Rome.

 

DAY 6: ROME

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Board your motor coach and journey along the Appian Way, the earliest road of Ancient Rome. (half-day service, 4-hours)

Visit the Catacombs of St. Callixtus. Among the greatest and most important of Rome, they began in the middle of the second century and are part of a cemeterial complex where many martyrs, Christians and 16 popes are buried. Guided

Have lunch on your own.

From Gianicolo (Janiculum) Hill see the innumerable domes and bell towers that dot the skyline of Rome.

Discover the Trastevere with your Tour Director and its ancient city hidden below the modern street level; see where Julius Caesar was murdered and go across Tiber Island to Campo de’ Fiori, today, one of the Rome’s most lively piazzas.

Enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with your group.

Overnight accommodation in Rome.

 

DAY 7: ROME

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Discover Galleria Borghese, one of the most famous art galleries in the world, with its ground floor containing sculptures and the upper floor holding collected paintings. Non-guided

Spend time people-watching on the Spanish Steps in Piazza di Spagna. The 135 steps and three different terraces, said to represent the Holy Trinity (the Trinità), are considered the widest and longest staircase of Europe.

Have lunch on your own.

Visit a local Gelateria to learn how Italians create their famous gelato. The visit ends with a tasting of course!

Take the rest of the afternoon to discover Rome at your own pace.

Enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with your group.

Overnight accommodation in Rome.

 

DAY 8: RETURN HOME

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Transfer by motor coach to the airport.

Say a fond Arrivederci to your Italian Prometour Tour Director.

Board your transatlantic flight from Rome and fly home