This gourmet food tour of Rome by Walks Inside Rome is one of our most popular walking tours. It is a Rome market tour which will help you discover the daily markets, shops and typical products of the Eternal city in a fun way and with a bit or art appreciation thrown in as we pass from one part of the historical center of the city to the next.

You will experience Rome as the Romans do by entering the famous open-air markets, visiting wonderful food stores, bakeries and even stopping of in one of the most famous and oldest delicatessen stores in the capital which dates from 1870.

Official and licensed Rome guides, Walks Inside Rome, offer a handful of different ways of visiting the Vatican. Each is orientated to the amount of time you may have, if you are travelling with children or if there is something specific you are interested in seeing. We list each tour below with brief introductions and do follow the dedicated links in the right hand column of this page to view each one in full.

EARLY MORNING PRIVATE VATICAN TOUR

This tour of the Vatican before the crowds arrive offers you an unforgettable and unique experience. Meet your guide at 7.30am by the entrance to the Vatican Museum and enjoy a special reservation to view the Sistine Chapel before the doors open for the public. The tour also includes other sections of the Vatican Museum, as well as St. Peter’s Basilica and Square. Take a look at the video below to get an idea of our tour.

Official Rome guides, Walks Inside Rome, have put together number of tour proposals especially for younger visitor to the Eternal City. Meet the Gladiators of Ancient Rome in the Gladiator School is the one we would want to do if we were a kid again. Here you and your children can spend a day in a Roman Gladiators School and learn about ancient Roman history at the same time.

The gladiator instructor will teach them how to train like Sparatacus and how to fight with Roman weapons. Take a look at the great video below, are you up for it!

At the end of the lesson they will be given a certificate and the tunic you worn during the class. Each four hour session includes an introduction to Roman History in the nearby museum, a description of life as a Gladiator and the basic techniques of gladiatorial swords fighting.

The Vatican archives, more than 1,000 year old, will go on show in a special exhibition in Rome's Capitoline Museums from February to September this year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the establishment.

Conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors. Crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters. Manuscripts, codices, ancient parchments, strings, deeds and registers. A unique and once-in-a-lifetime event recounting history through its sources as it will be the first and possibly the only time in history allowed out of the Vatican vaults: 100 original documents, preserved for 400 years in the Popes' Archive, 85 linear kilometers of shelving; records of an extraordinary historical value, covering a time-span that stretches from the 8th to the 20th century.

The title, Lux in Arcana, communicates the main scope of the exhibition: the light that filters through the nooks and crannies of the Archive (lux in arcana) illuminates a reality that is sealed off from a superficial knowledge, but understandable only through actual and direct contact with the Archive's sources, that opens the doors to the discovery of the sometimes unrevealed history narrated by the documents.

Walks Inside Rome run small group tours for tourists who may not want a full private visit of the capital. Instead, you can join other travellers in small scheduled groups of no more than 8 participants. All are conducted in English by professional and licensed guide and depart with a minimum of four people.

Choose from morning or afternoon tours of the Vatican City and Sistine Chapel or a tour of ancient Rome. Here we summarise a little about some of the scheduled tours programs. Follow each link to book directly online with Walks Inside Rome and reserve your place.

Walks Inside Rome are official Rome tour guides who can take you on an expert guided and personal walking tour of Rome. The guided tours of the Vatican City, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum and also the Roman hills are designed for private travellers or small semi private groups. Special day tours for shore excursions in Rome can also be booked.

YOUR GUIDES

Marilena, Tosca and Salvatore are native Romans with a background in architecture, art, history and archaeology, but their tours can be arranged for any range of special interest such arts itineraries, unusual museums, and also tours of Rome specifically designed for families with children.

All are tailor made professional guides with a long experience of working with major US and international tour operators and the team are officially licensed guides and the best qualified people to show you the Eternal City.