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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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During our extended stay in Italy, one of our enduring pleasures will be to have made the acquaintance of Paolo Gardelli. His ever-deepening knowledge of his discipline and his enthusiastic willingness to indulge every question in an authoritative manner, often with humor and a keen sense of humanity, made for a most memorable half-day of exploring Ostia Antica. We have engaged Context guides regularly in our travels through Europe. Paolo will long be remembered for his passion and insight. We could not have been more impressed with our experience. Context would be well advised to retain Paolo among its ranks of professionals. Thank you Paolo, and thank you Context, for an enlightening and enjoyable tour. Michael and Rachelle Bernard
The tour was a pleasure from start to finish. The insight gained was a perfect mixture of detail and context. Jennette while not a native of Rome she clearly loved the city and her enthusiasm was charming and genuine.
Such a wonderful, informative tour! Massimo is friendly, knowledgeable, charming and has such a love for his city Rome. We enjoyed hearing and learning about this remarkable city and it's history.
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