3 horas

Castelli Romani Private Tour | Drive through Rome’s outskirts and countryside, see the Aqueduct Archaeological Park enjoy an exclusive Guided driven Tour.

Castelli Romani Tour Privado – Following the long sequences of mighty archers running through Rome’s outskirts and countryside, we will visit the Aqueduct Archaeological Park to see the massive aqueducts which have powerfully withstood time and to hear detailed accounts of the hydraulic engineering abilities attained by the ancients to canalize vast amounts of water to Rome. In antiquity, 11 aqueducts furnished quality water to thousands of public baths, fountains, homes, imperial and patrician gardens, and the population’s needs.

Continue your Castelli Romani private tour to the Castelli Romani area celebrated for landscapes beloved by poets, painters, and writers of the 19th century Romantic Era, to see the Pope’s Summer Palace perched on the slopes of an extinct volcano whose crater holds a great lake. Visit charming Castelgandolfo, where the Pope meets pilgrims in summer, and then Nemi with its medieval castle overlooking a smaller enchanting lake where Emperors Caligula and Nero orchestrate elegant sumptuous banquets and feasts on luxuriously rigged rafts to entertain and surprise visiting foreign dignitaries. This famed area is considered one of the most beautiful spots in Italy and is the bronze-age cradle of the Latin peoples and language who later found Rome on the banks of the Tiber river.
Renaissance popes and cardinals dotted these lush landscapes with splendid country palaces and estates. After passing Grottaferrata and Marino, where during the October Wine Festival, all public fountains spout, instead of water, jets of wine, we descend to picturesque Frascati, a delightful hill-town. Here, taste the famous local white wines produced on the surrounding mineral-rich and fertile volcanic soils, giving them a particular component that is supposedly excellent for nerves.
The Castelli Romani private tour continues with the visit to Cardinal Aldobrandini’s Villa, begun in 1598, a monumental country palace estate with baroque sculptured gardens and artwork and after an opportunity of pleasantly mingling with the natives of Frascati to enjoy the warm and communicative Italian village way of life, maybe shop for a traditional “Pupazze,” a woman-shaped symbol of fertility with three breasts. After which, head back to Rome by the rapid highway. End of Castelli Romani tour privado.