History & Beauty on a off-the beaten-path tour of Rome for seniors

Embark on this Rome tour designed for seniors, including those with limited mobility, on a journey through its endless history, exploring panoramic viewpoints, squares, and architectures built over centuries, over centuries transformed or repurposed with new uses. Until the concept of beauty developed during the Renaissance (14th century) reshaped Italian cities and their culture with new splendor and elegance, marking a turning point that is still ongoing.

Let your gaze glide over Piazza di Spagna from the heights of Piazza di Trinità dei Monti, with the Barcaccia fountain at the center below (a half-sunken barge commemorating past floods of the river Tiber even in this area), and understand how the demolition of the cliff to build the sinuous staircase connected the two levels.

Your empathetic and knowledgeable guide will explain how this fostered the communication and pacification between the upper area, inhabited by French communities and military garrisons, and the lower area, overseen by the Spanish, initiating the international vocation of the area. Which became a meeting point for travelers from Northern Europe discovering the classical antiquities of the South on the Grand Tour. It is no coincidence that Piazza di Spagna hosts the museum dedicated to the prematurely deceased poet Keats and the oldest tea shop, opened by two English women at the end of the 19th century.

Admire from here the spectacle of Rome's rooftops, with the perspective of Via dei Condotti, where the shops of major fashion brands are located, right in front of you, and in the distance, the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful views of Rome, unmatched at sunset with the sun setting on the horizon.

Then on our tour for seniors by car, you will appreciate on your right the majestic Villa Medici, perhaps the most beautiful villa in Rome, Renaissance architectural excellence, now home to the French Academy.

Let yourself be enchanted by the magical views from the Pincio, the terrace of Rome, situated on the small hill overlooking the vast Piazza del Popolo, with its central obelisk and the two twin churches at the entrance to Via del Corso.