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Rome Private Tours and Experiences Hosted by Local Experts

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.
What Context Rome Travelers Say
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Estella did phenomenal as our guide. She made sure we were able to see everything and spend time with everything that was offered, while also sharing with us the importance, background, and history. It was a great tour and we would highly recommend!
Dony did a great job sharing the history of Ancient Rome. I especially enjoyed the holographic photo cards that showed an overlay of Ancient Rome and what we can currently see. Dony definitely has a way of making history feel fun and relevant! This was a great tour, and I’d recommend it for anyone who is interested in ancient history and who enjoys walking through it!
Our tour guide, Carlo, was absolutely superb! He shared so much history during our tour that it felt like he took us back in time living in Ancient Rome. He was very passionate and quite interactive. He answered any questions we came up with and kept us engaged. Carlo is such a gentle soul and our time with him was quite lovely. He knew how challenging the tour would be for us given the high temps and the extremely large crowds but he was experienced in navigating the crowds in a friendly and positive disposition and maintained our interest despite these circumstances. We would HIGHLY recommend Carlo to anyone wanting to delve deep in Roman history—you are in for quite a treat!
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