Lazio itineraries

Lazio itineraries (80)

Our recommendations if you are planning a vacation or visit to Rome and the rest of the region of Lazio.

  • Rome Art, Food and Wine Tour
    The Art, Food and Wine Tour of the Castelli Romani by In Italy Tours is new for 2013 and runs just once, from 31st October - 7th November. The aim of the tour is to get you beyond Rome and enjoy a relaxed immersion in art, authentic roman cuisine, wine tasting and history. But not only, your trip ...
  • Walks of Italy, Vatican Tours
    Rome with Walks of Italy are cultural tours of the Eternal City and Vatican city. You can book online by following the links below. Here we indicate when and where the tours run and if they can be enjoyed as part of a group or privately. The basic price indicated includes all tickets and reservat...
  • Walks of Italy, Rome Tours
    Walks of Italy tours of Rome and the Vatican are great cultural experiences. Book online by following the links below. Here we indicate when and where the tours run and if they can be enjoyed as part of a group or privately. The basic price indicated includes all tickets and reservation fees.   ...
  • Say I Do Twice in One Day in Rome
    Two Wedding Ceremonies in one day - a unique experience in Rome in July. The protagonist: a beautiful English bride, the setting: Rome, the Eternal city and the prestigious Hotel d’Inghilterra in the center of Rome. The secret of success: the great direction of Barbara Calò and Valentina of Infini...
  • Grand Hotel Terme of Stigliano Meeting Rooms, Rome
    The Grand Hotel Terme di Stigliano is situated near the small hamlet of Canale Monteranno, about 10 kilometers north of the town of Bracciano near the famous lake. It offers a quiet alternative location for a meeting, conference or corporate event outside of Rome, but close enough to incorporate th...
  • Grand Hotel Terme of Stigliano, Rome
    The Grand Hotel delle Terme di Stigliano is set in its own wonderful grounds in the Roman countryside and is a great choice for anyone seeking a spa break in Italy close to Rome. The Botanic Gardens of Stigliano are actually listed in a network called Grandi Giardini Italiani (Great Italian Gar...
  • Fooxia Cooking School & Group Events, Rome
    Fooxia is a new location in the Jewish Ghetto in Rome near Campo de' Fiori and is a space dedicated to art, food and events for large groups. It was opened by Fabio of 'Fabiolous Cooking Day' cooking lessons in Rome near the Spanish Steps, and Mazzano Romano Two years ago Fabio began with “Fabiolo...
  • The Westin Excelsior Rome Weddings
    The 5 star Westin Excelsior Hotel located in Via Veneto, Rome, boasts over 10 dedicated spaces which can host any type of social and business event in absolute luxury. The venues are flexible and can cater for as few as five to as many 1000 guests in the Winter Garden, Borghese and Ludovisi rooms. ...
  • The St. Regis Rome Hotel Events
    The luxury St. Regis Hotel in central Rome offers a choice of 13 rooms to cater for any corporate or social event. The largest is the Sala Ritz which can host 540 guests for receptions, or up to 300 for a seated banquet in the original ballroom of the hotel which has now been restored with marble ...
  • Wedding in a Roman Vineyard
    If you are looking to get married in Rome, then consider the Castelli Romani, or Roman Hills, just outside the capital. Tour operator Wine In Tour based in Frascati can organise your special day in either an elegant country villa or in a more rustic setting amidst the famous vineyards of the ...
  • Rome Market and Pizza Making Tour
    This food market tour in Rome is proposed by Walks of Italy and is located in and around perhaps the Eternal city's most atmospheric daily market, Campo de' Fiori. Traditionally frequented by chefs and cooks from local restaurants and family trattorie, where they source seasonal ingredients, your g...
  • Villa Torlonia Tour and Family Dinner
    This unique proposal has been put together by Italian Dinner Family and is a wonderful way to discover a fascinating, and not often visited, corner of the Eternal city. Villa Torlonia and the grounds have recently been renovated to their old glory, as our images from summer 2012 demonstrate. You w...
  • OZU Cultural Centre, Monteleone Sabino
    OZU stands for Officina Zone Umane and is a non profit association based near the small village of Monteleone Sabino in the heart of the Sabine Hills territory. Founded in 2005, this residential cultural and arts centre is the location for the development of creative ideas, exchange and innovative ...
  • Italy Segway Tours, Rome
    Italy Segway Tours were the first company in Italy to operate segway tours. A licensed tour operator you can enjoy their fun tours in both Florence and Rome, as well as Milan and Pisa. The Rome tours take in all of the Eternal City's most important ancient monuments and sites for a thorough itinera...
  • Eating Italy Food Tours, Rome
    Eating Italy Food Tours are mouth-watering Food Tours in Rome which take place in the Testaccio and Trastevere neighborhoods of the Eternal City. These zones are the historical gourmet heart of the city and still an obligatory stop for anyone interested in discovering authentic Roman cuisine. Both...
  • That's Amore Restaurant, Trevi Fountain Rome
    That's Amore Restaurant is located just a few yards from the famous Trevi Fountain in central Rome. It is run by Fabio Bongianni who is also the inspiration behind Fabiolous Cooking Day for anyone wanting to plan an Italian cooking lesson during a stay in Eternal City. The restaurant can seat 60 d...
  • Cooking Breaks near Rome
    The cooking classes offered by Fontana del Papa bed and breakfast near Rome are something else. The first cookery lesson took place in October 1998 and after 15 years now feature in the Top 10 list of Cookery Schools in Italy in National Geographic's book - Food Journeys of a Lifetime. The lessons...
  • Les Etoiles Roof Garden Restaurant, Rome
    The panoramic Roof Garden Restaurant 'Les Etoiles' is situated on the 6th floor of the four star superior Hotel Atlante Star in central Rome overlooking the city and especially the Vatican and Saint Paul's Basilica. It offers a classical, but creative and innovative cuisine combining Italian tradit...
  • Hotel Atlante Garden, Rome
    The 4 star luxury Hotel Atlante Garden is situated in the heart of Rome only 10 minutes by foot from the Vatican City. It is also within easy reach of Navona Square and the Spanish Steps, one of the most famous shopping areas in the world. The hotel, together with sister hotel the Atlante Star, ar...
  • Hotel Atlante Star, Rome
    The Hotel Atlante Star is a noted four star superior hotel in central rome offering stunning views of the Vatican City and Saint Peter's Square. We can go as far as to say that the 6th floor Roof Garden Restaurant 'Les Etoiles' of the Atlante Star has the best table view of Saint Paul's Basilica we...
  • Tour of Palazzo Massimo and Family Dinner in Rome
    Palazzo Massimo alle Terme is located in central Rome across Piazza dei Cinquecento from Stazione Termini towards Piazza Repubblica. It was built 150 years ago as a copy of a noble residences of the early Roman baroque period. Today, it is part of the National Museum of Rome and houses some pricel...
  • Open Top Bus Wine Tour and Wine Cruise, Rome
    The original and fabulous open top bus tour by Frascati based Wine In Tour will take you on a panoramic wine journey in the Castelli Romani or Roman Hills near Rome. The 6 hour trip is part of a perfect day out for up to 14 people. You will be accompanied by an friendly expert guide for full day t...
  • The Duke Hotel Rome
    The Duke Hotel is four star Rome accommodation a short walk from Villa Borghese and located in a quiet area of the Italian capital. Just one stop on the Suburban North Line  will take you to Piazza del Popolo and the heart of Rome's high fashion shopping district, as well as the nearby Spanish Step...
  • Grand Hotel Chiaia di Luna, Ponza Island
    The 4 star Grand Hotel Chiaia di Luna is located in an enviable and chamring position above the beautiful Chiaia di Luna bay on the island of Ponza. The ambience of the bay is a natural amphitheatre overlooking the sea towards the protected island of Palmarola and the harbour of Ponza, with the cen...
  • Fabiolous Cooking Day, Rome Cooking Class
    If you are looking to take Rome day cooking lessons or a cooking class in Rome as part of your vacation or visit to the Eternal City, then we think we have discovered something very special. The private cooking lessons of Fabio Bongianni are held in a wonderful noble Palazzo a short walk from the ...
  • Italian Dinner Family, Rome
    Your Italian Dinner Family is Cecilia, Bruno and Emidio who invite you to their home in north Rome to taste homemade Roman dishes in convivial way. As Cecilia enthusiastically says "We don't offer a regular cooking course, but a dinner with the family, based on flavors, aromas and a lot of chat...
  • Rome Cooking Vacation
    This wonderful cooking vacation in the Castelli Romani or Roman Hills is a shorter break version of the full Rome food and wine tour put together by In Italy Tours. The emphasis is on learning to cook in the traditional way of the old Roman countryside with Maria and Sora Anna (pictured above) who ...
  • Wine in Tour, Frascati Wine Visits
    Wine in Tour is the first Italian travel agency specializing in wine tours for business & leisure travellers and for anyone who loves and appreciates life and wine. 25 different types of wine experience all over Italy are offered on the website and many can also be tailored to your needs. Large gro...
  •  Castelli Romani Food and Wine Tour
    This original week long Rome cooking tour by In Italy Tours is located in the Castelli Romani, about 30 minutes from central Rome. It has been designed to allow the visitor to meet local people, dine with them, cook with them and see close up their daily life in the famous Roman Hills, not ...
  • Le Artigiane, Italian Crafts Showroom, Rome
    If you are considering a Rome shopping tour then make sure it includes the large showroom of Le Artigiane Arts & Crafts Store in via di Torre Argentina, a short walk from Largo Argentina towards the Pantheon. The shop is home to contemporary arts and handicrafts made by local artisans, strictly Mad...
  • Wine in Tour, Day Wine Tours from Rome
    Wine in Tour is the first Italian network specializing in wine tours for business & leisure travellers and for anyone who loves and appreciates life and wine. Please choose from the following 3 day trip options in the Roman Hills near Frascati. OPTION ONE 2 hour wine tour in Latium for two peop...
  • La Terrazza dell'Eden Restaurant, Rome
    La Terrazza dell'Eden is the rooftop restaurant of the Hotel Eden in central Rome not far from both Via Veneto and the Spanish Steps. In fact, it is so perfectly located on the 6th floor of the hotel, the view from the top takes in all of Rome's famous seven hills and a breathtaking panor...
  • Ristorante St. Ana, Rome
    Osteria St. Ana has been located at this address since 1968 in a 16th century building that once served as a storage house for the Borghese family and then later as a convent, The restaurant presents an intimate and interesting set piece for dining in Rome, particularly with the newly inaugurat...
  • Doney Restaurant, Rome
    The Ristorante Doney can be found beside The Westin Excelsior Hotel in Via Veneto, Rome. It is an ideal place for a quick breakfast, brunch, aperitif, dinner, after dinner or just for meeting friends in the heart of Rome. Also consider the h>club doney for an aperitif. This innovative lounge...
  • Restaurant Vivendo, Rome
    Vivendo is the restaurant of the 5 star luxury St. Regis Grand Hotel Rome, one of the very best accommodations in the Eternal City. Vivendo has received many important awards since its opening at the end of 2000, not least being twice nominated as the best in Europe by Zagat. High on desig...
  • Fontana del Papa, Tolfa near Rome
    Fontana del Papa is a bed and breakfast and cooking school near Rome in the idyllic and charming countryside location of Monti della Tolfa. But this would be a understatement. It is, in fact, a wonderfully rustic home dating from the 16th century in what was, until 2000, an abandoned farmhouse ...
  • The Westin Excelsior Hotel, Rome
    Since 1906, the luxury Westin Excelsior Rome Hotel has hosted celebrities, statesmen and artists visiting the Eternal City. Not least because the hotel enjoys a prime location in the celebrated Via Veneto district of Rome, one time heart of the Dolcevita. Guests stay in 287 rooms. Of the 32...
  • The St. Regis Rome Hotel
    The St. Regis Grand Hotel is located near Piazza Repubblica in central Rome. The luxury hotel has recently undergone a meticulous $35 million restoration, but look closely at the ceiling of the main reception hall and you can still see homages to famous personalities of the Grand Tour such ...
  • Hotel Eden, Rome
    The Hotel Eden is luxury accommodation in central Rome for an elegant stay with fine dining in the Italian capital. The Hotel Eden is in the enviable postion of being just a very short walk from both the famous and sophisticated Via Veneto and the equally famous and stylish Via Condotti, itself not...

 

A selection of off the beaten track itineraries from the region of Rome and Lazio. Highlighted below are our latest and last updated articles while all are listed in the right column with links.

 

  • A Visit to the Sanctuary of Santa Maria Goretti, Nettuno

    Published in Lazio itineraries
    We received an invite from the Association Santa Maria Goretti to visit Nettuno and make our own short pilgrimage from Rome to discover the life and incredible story of the young Saint. Maria Goretti was born into a poor agricultural family in October 1890 in the town of Corinaldo in Le Marche. She was one of 6 children and her parents decided to move to Paliano in the province of Frosinone seeking work. They subsequently settled in the Agro Pontino in Lazio to share a large farm dwelling with the Serenelli family in Ferriere di Conca (below), not far from…
    Last modified on 02 June 2013

Romantic Aventine Hill, Rome

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The history of the Aventine hill is that of Rome itself. Just imagine, in a clockwise direction within a 500 yards the hill we can find the Circus Maximus, the Caracalla Thermes, Forum Romanum, Monte Testaccio, the River Tiber and Isola Tiberina. Since antiquity, the area has been sought after real estate (e.g. Traiano's private home) and been the location for sumptuous villas and temples such as those dedicated to Cerere, Diana and Minerva. Nevertheless, it has always retained a certain detached calm which it still evident today.
Last modified on 02 June 2013

Piazza Navona Christmas Market

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Piazza Navona is arguably Rome's greatest square or piazza, as well as being home to Rome's best Christmas market each December. The spot was originally a stadium built by Emperor Domitian in 86 AD. Athletes competed here in honor of Jupiter and you can still visit the ruins under street level. It has been tinkered with for centuries but you don't need much imagination for a feel of the Eternal city at its Renaissance best. And they can't stop tinkering with it. The latest proposal by the Comune is to remove the step on which the fountains and central portion stand…
Last modified on 02 June 2013

Christmas Nativity Scenes in Lazio

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There are many smaller towns and localities outside of Rome where fabulous presepe, crib or Christmas nativity scenes are set up each year. GRECCIO The first ever nativity representation or 'presepe' was set up in Greccio near Rieti in 1223 by none other than Saint Francis of Assisi. Today, the crib in Greccio continues the medieval costume theme and also tells the history of the presence of St. Francis in the town. But do go anytime of year, as the walk through inside the church has Nativity scenes made by people from all of the world, including Russia and Korea.…
Last modified on 02 June 2013

Genzano in Bloom

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For more than two centuries (from 1778 in fact) the festival of the 'Infiorata' in June in honor of the Corpus Domini has proved to be the best of its type in Lazio. It involves the laying of thousands of flowers on Via Berardi in such a way as to create gigantic pictorial representations. The flowers carpet event attracts many people including in the past the stylists Versace, Missoni and Fendi who all signed their names in flowers. It all begins with the harvesting of the millions of petals two or three days before the event. They are kept fresh…
Last modified on 21 May 2013

Easter Rome Traditions

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In 2008 Easter fell on its earliest possible date, March 23rd, something which happens only once every 100 years. The Nicean Council decided in A.D. 325 that Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first Full Moon to rise after the Spring Equinox. Unless the first full moon also rose on a Sunday, in which case Easter would be celebrated the Sunday after that. For over 1500 years we have continued to mark the celebration of Easter based on these calculations.
Last modified on 26 March 2013

Origin of Saint Valentine's Day

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We have to go back to the Roman Empire to discover the origins of Saint Valentine’s Day. At the time, on February 15th, the Romans celebrated Lupercus and Fauno who were the gods protecting the harvest and the cattle, as well as wishing prosperity and fertility. On the evening before the feast all the girls of marriageable age used to put a card with their name inside a jar. Every young man would draw out a name which he would have to pair with in the sense of dancing and singing together her for the whole of the celebrations Many, inevitably,…
Last modified on 13 February 2013