3-hour walking tour
kid-friendly tour
We will offer you the unique opportunity to visit the subterranean heart of the Eternal City, making a 2000-year-old journey.
Since its origins, Rome has built its own history year after year, preserving its glorious past and allowing modernity to coexist with antiquity. The Basilica of Saint Clement is a three level structure where you will be surrounded by the precious architectonical and pictorial remains. Your guide will illustrate the history and the function of the Mithraeum, the early Christian Baptistery, the Imperial mint and the earliest proves of the Italian language. Walking through Imperial Fora, you will discover the incredible buildings built by the Roman emperors and perfectly included in the urban area.
After that, you will enter the underground archaeological area of Vicus Caprarius - the City of Water: the structures of an imperial domus, the castellum aquae of the Virgin Aqueduct and the evocative exhibits (including the famous face of Alessandro helios) were discovered during the renovation of the former Cinema Trevi. On a journey back in time, it is possible to touch Rome’s millennial stratification and observe the archaeological evidence of the great events that characterized the city’s history, from the realization of the Aqua Virgo to the fire of Nero, from the sack of Alarico to the siege of the Goths.
Some of the most representative pictures of this tour
Discover the main stops of this tour
Dedicated to pope Clement I, this Latin Catholic minor basilica was born from the stratification of three buildings belonging to different epochs. The present basilica, built during the height of the Middle Ages; a 4th-century basilica, the basement of which had in the 2nd century briefly served as a Mithraeum; the Domus of a Roman nobleman and the adjacent warehouse, both destroyed in the Great Fire of 64 AD.
The Aqua Virgo - whose name is thought to be derived from the purity and clarity of the water - was one of the eleven Roman aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome. It was completed in 19 B.C. by Augustus’ son-in-law, M.V. Agrippa, and some parts of it can be visited, like the 60m stretch of the aqueduct arches recently found in the basement of the ‘Rinascente’ department store.
This underground archaeological area is an evocative example of the fascinating archaeological stratification that extends beneath the Trevi district. In fact, just at a few paces from one of the most eminent works of art in the world, the Trevi Fountain, it is possible to discover a building complex from the imperial age which represents a remarkable testimony of ancient Rome’s urban fabric.
Some useful information for your experience
Expert and licensed guide, entrance ticket, full on-site assistance, sterilized earphones (from 5 people upwards).
Suggested start time: 9.30 am / 3.00 pm. Not available on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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