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Rome Art Tour

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Rome Art Sample Tour

 

4 Nights

DAY 1
Arrive into one of Romes airports and then transfer to your hotel. Time to relax before dinner.

Day 2
Head straight to the heart of the Roman Empire with a visit to the impressive Colosseum and next door Foro Romano. This is a must for those studying history where, with a little imagination, the blood curdling days of the gladiators can be recreated and history brought to life. After lunch, enjoy a city walk, guided by a local expert before returning to the hotel. An evening meal in a local restaurant provides an informal and safe' atmosphere for those wanting to practice their language skills.

Day 3
After breakfast spend the day in Vatican City, another ‘must' for anyone interested in art and history. You should allocate a full day to make the most of the city, taking in Michelangelo's amazing Sistine Chapel, the Piazza San Pietro and the Vatican Museum, housing one of the largest collections of artwork anywhere in the world. Evening meal in a local restaurant.

Day 4
Spend the morning indulging in some retail therapy, one of the best opportunities for students to put their language skills to use. After lunch visit the Spanish Steps and the Pantheon before returning to the hotel.

Day 5
Before departing Rome, visit the Piazza Navona and the Trevi Fountain, where you can participate in the famous tradition of throwing a coin into the fountain, thus guaranteeing a return.

Visits can be made to:

Vatican Museums & Sistene Chapel
The Vatican Museums house one of the finest art collections in the world. As the collections are so vast, it is better to confine yourselves to a few selected highlights such as the Chiaramonte Gallery, the Raphael Rooms, Raphael's Loggia and the Chapel of Nicholas V, the Pinacoteca Gallery, not forgetting the Sistine Chapel with the awe-inspiring Last Judgement, which fills the altar wall.

Capitoline Museums
The Capitoline Museums are housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo, which face each other across the Piazza del Campidoglio. Dating back to 1471, they are arguably the oldest existing public art collection in the world.

National Gallery of Ancient Art
Housed in the Palazzo Barberini, the gallery includes works by Romano, Sanzio, Perugino, Bernini, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Tiepolo and Holbein.

National Gallery of Modern Art
The Gallery includes work by Balla, Morandi, Pirandello, Carra, de Chirico, de Pisisi, Guttoso, Fontana, Burri, Mastroianni, Turcato, Kandinsky and Cézanne.

Borghese Gallery
The Borghese villa and its small palace were constructed at the beginning of the 17th century in an area then occupied by orchards and vineyards, evidence of which can still be seen today. It exemplifies the style of villa owned by a great Roman family at that period. The Gallery contains works by Raffaello, Canova, Bernini and Romano.

Keats Shelley Memorial House
Situated on the Spanish steps, the house is part of Roman Folklore. For generations the Piazza di Spagna has been visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets who all lodged here. Tobias Smollett, George Eliot, Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, the Brownings, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde and Joyce were just a few of the many who were attracted and inspired by the celebrated 'centro storico'.

National Roman Museum
The National Roman Museum, founded in 1889, is reordered in order to illustrate with its collections the history of the city and its cultural aspects in the antiquity. The articulation of the Museum previews various thematic preparations us and thunderstorms, distributed in several espositive centers. To the inside of the immensest plan of the Roman national Museum, the center of the Maximum Palace is the hinge of the entire museale plan. One of the newest of Rome's archaeological offerings. Especially good to see Rome after the Empire fell in the fifth century until the tenth century.

Doria Pamphilj Gallery
The Doria Pamphilj Gallery is housed in the Palace of the same name, which is located on the Corso, but its entrance on the Piazza del Collegio Romano. On the days the building is open, it is also possible to visit the private and public rooms in the Palace. The Gallery includes works of Jacopo Tintoretto, Tiziano, Raffaello Sanzio, Correggio, Caravaggio, Guercino, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Parmigianino, Gaspard Dughet, Jan Brueghel il Vecchio and Velasquez.

 

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