Rome’s ghosts and mystery tour
The Eternal City is certainly famous for its art and monuments, but when the sun sets, Rome reveals its dark side of mysterious stories of hauntings, executions and murder. You will learn about the supernatural presences whose legends are tightly bound to the city’s own history and traditions.
The program:
The tour will start at the Spanish steps. This is the place where the English poets John Keats and Percy Shelley had lived, and according to the legend you can still hear them reciting their poems. Then we will go to the famous Trevi fountain to learn that a certain baroque church nearby is the custodian of the hearts and intestines of three centuries of popes.
Next we will stop at the Pantheon, the ancient Roman pagan temple, where you will hear legends about devil’s presences. We will continue to Piazza Navona, the beautiful Baroque square, which is haunted by ghosts (Olimpia Pamphilj, Innocenzo X’s sister-in-law, just to mention the most famous).
The tour will end at Castel Sant’Angelo, Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum. This imposing structure has had many lives, from fortress to pope’s residence to prison, and as such, is shrouded in legends and mysteries from the worst trial of the Papal tribunal to the suicide of Tosca.
A guide from Rome who loves leading visitors through her city and unveiling city’s history and legends from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, from the Renaissance to now.
Half day tour (17:00 – 20:00) includes: English-speaking guide, expert in legends and mysteries.
