WHIZZING THROUGH THE AGES

Here’s your chance to cruise around Rome’s best-loved sights aboard the very latest and greenest electric vehicle. What a glorious way to get a close look at the squares and fountains, the monuments and magnificent facades of the capital’s favourite buildings as you sail along smoothly and silently on your own personal transporter! A dream experience like this is just too good to miss. Your expert guide will lead you through the side streets and piazze of the historic centre pointing out important landmarks and relating the true tales that surround them to animate your experience. You’ll have plenty of photo opportunities beside the city’s architectural treasures and gain a real feel for the texture of life in Rome, past and present, in record time.

Meet your guide at your accommodation and together reach the starting point of the tour. After a brief orientation session on how to manoeuvre this 2-wheeled easy-to-handle electric vehicle, hop on your Segway and begin your exciting journey through centuries of history. You’ll roll across Neoclassical squares, alongside Baroque fountains and archaeological monuments, while learning about the most significant events in the biography of the city.

Relive the glories of ancient Rome as you wheel past the Pantheon, one of the capital’s oldest, best-preserved and most spectacular buildings. Built by Emperor Hadrian in around 125 AD, it was originally a temple devoted to many gods. With its grandiose colonnade, vast bronze doors and awe-inspiring dome – one of the largest free-standing domes in existence – it still fascinates visitors today, almost two thousand years after its completion. Next, jump forward to the 17th century on a visit to Piazza Navona. Here, while you inspect Bernini’s glorious Fountain of the Four Rivers and the facade of Borromini’s Church of Sant’Agnese in Agone, lend an ear to an account of the contention between famous art champions Bernini and Borromini. Rivalry is one human characteristic that never changes! Then get a flavour of contemporary life in Italy on your ride through Piazza Campo de’ Fiori and lap up the sights, scents and sounds of the bustling fresh food market. You’ll also get the chance to stop for photos in Piazza di Spagna, with its elegant stairway of 135 steps leading up to the Church of Trinità dei Monti, and make a wish by the Trevi Fountain for good luck as well as to ensure a return trip to Rome.

Admiring the Caput Mundi‘s well-known tourist attractions and picture postcard locations is only half of the fun. Many of Rome’s fascinating secrets will be unveiled and its hidden wonders revealed on the way. Your guide will share a wealth of stories and anecdotes about Roman celebrities. Ambitious popes, headstrong artists, power-mad emperors and a host of other compelling characters will make their appearance in the colourful canvas that unfolds before your eyes.