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Shore excursion from Civitavecchia to Rome, the Eternal City |
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Rome |
Rates per vehicle for this
excursion:
sedan (1/4 persons) 650 €;
minivan (4 persons) 670 €;
minivan (5/6 persons) 700 €.
minivan (7/8 persons) 740 €. |
Driving times:
Civitavecchia/Rome: 1hr
Rome/Civitavecchia : 1hr'
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The rates include: 9 hours of touring in the requested vehicle
conducted by experienced driving guide.
Each additional hour will be charged 1/9 of the total of the tour's
rate.
Rates do
not include: Entrance fees, meals, drinks or anything not
specifically listed as included. |
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Rome, the Eternal City!
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We start from Civitavecchia around 8:00 or 8:30 am.
I'll be waiting right on the pier where the ship docks. I park the car as
close as possible to the footbridge and, so to be identified easily,
I post the client's name on its windshield. The tour takes total 9 hours,
from when we start at the port until we return to the ship. The
drive to Rome takes about one hour and so does the trip back to the
ship.
The tour of Rome
we'll do,
is a sort of loop. Depending on the day of the week and traffic
conditions, we may start from St. Peter's Basilica and end
with the Colosseum or vice versa. Saturdays and Sundays are the
best days to sightsee in Rome, most of the locals leave for the week
end and there's very little traffic and you cover more ground. |
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This is a list
of Rome's major highlights, the sights you don't want to miss, and
the time it takes to see them:
St. Peter's (1
hour or more), Piazza Navona
(20'), Pantheon
(20'), Trevi Fountain
(20'), Capitol Hill (Roman Forum
view) (30'),
Colosseum
(about 1 hour).
A rapid
calculation will tell you that just these few places will take about three
and a half hours to see, but also you have to consider the time
needed to go from one to the other and the stops you'll want to make
to look at the the sights on your way.
These are in
fact several very interesting places you get to see as you drive
through the city, some
of these places aren't easy to find because kind of hidden or hard
to notice. It would be very difficult for the average tourist, in
Rome just for the day, to get to see them, but for us it's only a
short stop on the way!
These places
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Palazzaccio
(Old Court House),
St. Andrew's, St. Mary's Above Minerva, Piazza Venezia
(Monument to Victor Emmanuel II),
Piazza di Spagna
(Spanish Steps),
Theatre of Marcellus, Synagogue, Mouth of Truth and Keyhole
(Roman Curiosity),
Circus Maximus, Palatine Hill.
Several other attractions will be pointed
out just while you'll be driving by them, such as:
Castle St. Angelo and its bridge, Italian Senate, The Marble Foot
and Cat Street
(Roman
Curiosity),
Trajan's Column, Imperial Fora, Trajan's Market, The Maps of the
Empire, Arch of Constantine, Marcus Aurelius's Column, Parliament
and Council of Ministers, St. Nicholas in Chains, temples of Apollo,
Vesta and Janus, Quirinal Palace.
This is the usual itinerary, it takes you to the major highlights of the city of
Rome and at the end of the day you can say you've see the Rome! |
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If we start the tour
from St. Peter's, we'll stop to see the view of the Dome on the way
there; if we start from the Colosseum we see St. Paul's Basilica and
the Pyramid en route.
Obviously you
can change
the itinerary if there is a special place that you want to see
and it's not included in my list.
On Saturdays and Sundays traffic is
really light and we can move quicker, so more places can be included
in the tour, for example St. Peter's in Chains,
where they
keep the
statue of Moses by Michelangelo. |
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If you like you can include a
nice lunch in a local restaurant or a snack at a coffee shop (in
case you want save the time to see another site). I'll always be
ready to suggest the most convenient place in the neighborhood where
we'll be when you'll start to feel the need for some food. I don't
like to go to expensive restaurants and, unless I'm asked to do
different, I like to take my tourists to quaint little restaurants
where they get more of the atmosphere of Rome. The usual price you
pay for a good meal in one of these places is around 20 Euros per
person including wine drinks and taxes. Gratuity is your own
decision.
At the end of the tour, we leave
Rome around 4/4:30 pm to be back in Civitavecchia at about 5/5:30
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