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Rome-North on Lake Bracciano: 3000 years of history & art
We'll visit charming places around Rome in a full day of 8 / 8,30 hours. Starts in Cerveteri with the "City of Dead", largest Etruscan burial site of Italy; deepening the Etruscan culture that gave start to the Roman one.
We scroll 3000 years: Etruscans; Romans; Papacy; nowadays.
Lake Bracciano is the perfect frame to the imposing Castle Orsini-Odescalchi; magnificent, full of works of art and collections.
In Sutri, Roman amphitheater carved in the stone.
Meeting Point
At your Hotel
Pick-up at your Hotel, supposingly located in Rome.
The driver of the van and myself to meet you in the lobby of your Hotel. We come and pick you at a flexible hour: 8:30, 9:30 (recommended), 10:30 am. At the end of our full-day excursion , you will be taken back to the Hotel.
Cerveteri; Etruscan burial site.
"City of dead" because Etruscan believed in life after death and they used to shape the burial sites as if it was a real city where dead could move around. It is over 2700 years old and Caere was the most powerful town of those days , on the Tyrrenean sea.
A fascinating experience to discover some of the many mysteries that flutter around these people.
Included with the e.fee comes also a quick visit to the local museum where we can admire magnificent examples of Etruscan art.
Lunch in Ceri and, after, Bracciano; visit inside the Medieval Orsini-Odescalchi Castle
Our lunch together will happen in Ceri ( see photo) if starting time is at 9:30 (at the H.); or on the lake Bracciano if we start at 8:30 or 10:30. The visit to the Castle in Bracciano goes consequently to the starting time.
It is one of the best preserved Castles in Italy, partially still inhabited by the countess Orsini, most of it hosting the Museum.
Has frescoes and paintings of important painters of the Renaissance (Antoniazzo Romano); has an incredible collection of weapons and armors (biggest in Europe); has lots of stories to be recounted.
The place has seen popes, emperors, kings to spend time in it ( Pope Sixstus V was resident for over a year to avoid the pandemic).
Sutri; the Roman amphitheater and medieval church carved in the tufa stone.
The volcanic rock called tufa is the foundation of any structure in this Roman outskirts; but the amphitheater is literally carved in it.
All around, another ancient burial site utilized by the Etruscans and a little church with medieval paintings but that comes from being a Roman temple of Mitraism ( the oldest religion of the Planet, present in Rome during the Emperor ship and after.
Your Hotel in Rome; end of the excursion. (5:30 / 6:00 pm).
This is the drop-off done by your driver.Arrivederci !! Luigi
Ending Point
At your Hotel
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Inclusions & Exclusions
My guided service fee, Hotel pick-up and drop-off.
- Transportation fee; I will provide with my experience, the most convenient offer and best quality available on the market.
- Lunch; it will happen after the visit to the Castle and has to be arranged by me for scheduling instances. Advise for dietetic instances.
- Entrance Fees into 3 different sites: Cerveteri, Bracciano, Sutri.
Tour Important Information
- The tour can be customized for few or for many participants and the only price that does not change is the one related to your guide.
- There are several extra costs that will have to be on your charge when here:
* entrance fees to: City of Dead (Cerveteri); Castle in Bracciano; Roman anphitheater in Sutri. Total is about € 40 per person.
* Lunch when in Ceri or nearby Bracciano's lake at a restaurant of my choice for I have scheduled time to be respected. An average on a two courses lunch is around € 30
p.p. drinks excluded.
* transportation varies a lot and has to be defined case by case but I will be able to inform you on the price, once we are in contact and are preparing the meeting. An
average price on a van+ driver (five p. me included) is € 60 per h. ; in this case for 4 people ( instead of 7 but... covid restriction!) clients on 9 hour tour it would be : € 540.00
Important message from the guide
Prices of tours given are, essentially, my guide's fee; they include of course all the work needed to set the tour itself which goes from contacting all the service's providers (transportation, restaurants, entrances, reservations and/or anything else) but the cost of these services will be on your charge and its amount will be dealt after we get in touch directly.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
