Context tours are for travelers who love to learn. Since 2003, we have offered a wide range of Rome guided tours, including visits to museums, archaeological sites, and food tours—all led by local scholars and specialists. In addition to the main attractions like the Colosseum and the Vatican Museums, our Rome private guides can also show you the sites less traveled.
One of our most popular Rome private tours is our Ostia Antica tour, an excursion to the ancient port of Rome buried by centuries of mud, one of Italy's most compelling archaeological sites. Also popular is our Underground Rome Tour, in which we dig under the surface (literally and figuratively) with a trained Archaeologist or Speleologist to explore sewers, crypts, and buried temples—featured in National Geographic and on the History Channel.
Traveling to Rome with kids? Try our Ancient Rome for Kids Tour and our Vatican for Kids Tour, both of which use interactive activities, scavenger hunts, and games and feature private guides trained in inquiry-based learning to make Rome come alive.
Or are you more eager to take a day trip from Rome? Our team has taken care of planning all the logistics for a perfect Pompeii Full Day Tour from Rome.
One of our most popular Rome private tours is our Ostia Antica tour, an excursion to the ancient port of Rome buried by centuries of mud, one of Italy's most compelling archaeological sites. Also popular is our Underground Rome Tour, in which we dig under the surface (literally and figuratively) with a trained Archaeologist or Speleologist to explore sewers, crypts, and buried temples—featured in National Geographic and on the History Channel.
Traveling to Rome with kids? Try our Ancient Rome for Kids Tour and our Vatican for Kids Tour, both of which use interactive activities, scavenger hunts, and games and feature private guides trained in inquiry-based learning to make Rome come alive.
Or are you more eager to take a day trip from Rome? Our team has taken care of planning all the logistics for a perfect Pompeii Full Day Tour from Rome.
What Context Rome Travelers Say
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14,012 Reviews
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Alessandra did a fantastic job of guiding us through the Vatican Museum. She made the visit fun and interesting and relevant to other parts of our visit to Rome. We loved looking at the maps in the map room and finding other places we knew. We loved standing on the balcony and having her point out our hotel and various landmarks. So many parts of her art commentary have been relevant to other works of art in other places we have visited. We also really enjoyed spending time with her. She was engaging and delightful.
Thomas
Jun. 29, 2024
We had a great day traveling around Rome with Liz. The pace and level of information was well planned.
Malinda
Jun. 29, 2024
Dear Context
This was the single best tour I have ever taken in my life. Demo is an exceptional person who gave us a tour my daughters and I will remember throughout our lives. He gave context, meaning, relevance, history, gossip from the periods discussed. And above all, he was so interested in the work we were seeing, the relevance of the multitude of layers, and in us, that he kept all of us, teens, twentysomethings, history majors that don't want to reveal their age so much to think about. He could explain something and then answer any question that we had no matter how strange and no matter the period of history. His interest sparked our interest. His knowledge engendered a desire to delve deeper. I cannot imagine a better introduction to Rome than a day with Demo. Except maybe 2 days with Demo. Thank you so very much.
Corrina
Jun. 29, 2024