Ancient and Imperial Rome
From the Forum to the Colosseum, walk the streets where an empire ruled the world — engineering, power, and everyday life in ancient Rome.
Ancient and Imperial Rome: Rome’s New Forma Urbis Museum
The recently-opened Forma Urbis Museum is one of the best things to have happened in Rome recently. Here we'll visit…
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Ancient and Imperial Rome: the Ara Pacis and Two Imperial Mausoleums
Everyone knows that Augustus was the first Emperor of Rome. Very few people consider how he was thrust into Rome’s…
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Ancient and Imperial Rome: The Colosseum
Feel like exploring a magnificent arena where ancient Romans vented their dark side? Let's go to the Colosseum! An architectural…
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Ancient and Imperial Rome: The Forum Boarium
Imperial Rome was a bustling metropolis, by far the largest in Europe in antiquity. It was served by dozens of…
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Ancient and Imperial Rome: The Imperial Forum
To relieve overcrowding in ancient Rome's downtown, several Roman emperors built new and larger fora (the plural of "forum") to…
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Ancient and Imperial Rome: The Palatine Hill, From Mud Huts to Mansions
As the Roman Forum grew from a market place to the central nervous system of an Empire, the Palatine Hill…
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Ancient and Imperial Rome: The Roman Forum
While time traveling through two thousand years of cultural, political, economic, and architectural evolution in ancient Rome's city center, you'll…
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Full-Days Near Rome: Hadrian’s Villa Near Tivoli
Although the Emperor Hadrian’s extensive countryside estate was referred to as a “Villa,” it is better defined as an “administrative…
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Full-Days Near Rome: Ostia Antica
Ostia is "Rome's Pompeii" and it reveals a lot about daily life in the classical world: we'll stroll from a…
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Full-Days Near Rome: The Ancient Temple of Fortune in Modern-day Palestrina
Why take a tour of the Temple of Firstborn Fortune in Palestrina with Daniella? Well, you'll learn about 2nd century…
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Special Access Area: Monte Testaccio — Imperial Rome’s Broken Pottery Mountain
In Imperial Rome, you could do a lot with an amphora, like using it repeatedly to store and transport dry…
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Special Access Area: The Sepulcher of the Scipios
Our visit takes us to the Aurelian Walls, where a small park nestles between the Via Appia and the Via…
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Tour the Baths of Caracalla: A Guinness Book of World Records Spa
Explore the tenets and techniques of imperial Romans' world-class architecture at the Baths of Caracalla!
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Underground Rome: San Clemente!
Thinking about an unconventional visit? Explore San Clemente with Daniella! This underground site touches on all sorts of themes, from…
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Underground Rome: The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas
On the Via Latina, near the Sepulcher of the Scipios, is the Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas. Columbarium comes from the…
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Underground Rome: The Fountain of Via Annibaldi
"How can a city be built in layers?" you ask. It is common in Rome! Imagine hundreds, if not thousands,…
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Underground Rome: The Roman Homes on the Celian Hill
The Celian Hill is not on most tourists' itinerary... Spangled with churches and a large park, the Hill still retains…
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Underground Rome: Vicus Caprarius
Around the corner from the Trevi Fountain, is the Cinema Trevi. Faced with excessive humidity, the movie theater's owners probed…
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