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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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Great tour. Knowledge was incredible
Extremely Knowledgeable, engaging, friendly and able to explain things in an understanding manner. Highest recommendation.
Our group of four toured the Jewish Quarter of Rome with our guide, Caesar, a delightful young man who met us on time as planned and provided us a superb introduction of the Great Synagogue, the Museum, and the Quarter itself. He had a deep and personal knowledge of the subject and particularly of the history during the World War II period which was our particular interest. He was, at one point, very rudely interrupted by a local woman who wanted us to bypass some of the "stumbling stones" commemorating Holocaust victims because they were in front of her residence (apartment building). He dealt very firmly with this conflict and did not allow us to miss this important landmark. We were all very pleased and appreciative or our time with him and his passion for the subject matter. We would recommend him highly for this tour.
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