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Rome Under Siege: Ultimate Private Driving Tour with Guide

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Rome Under Siege: Ultimate Private Driving Tour with Guide
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Learn what life was like in occupied Rome, and the tragic events that transpired during this 9-month period during World War II, culminating in liberation in June 1944.
Availability: Monday-Friday •
Duration: 4 hours

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Morning Tour 09:00
Afternoon Tour 14:00

Private Tours

  • EUR District
  • District of San Lorenzo
  • Porta Ostiense
  • Ardeatine Caves
  • Porta Maggiore
  • Gestapo Prisons / Museum of Liberation
  • Mussolini’s Balcony
  • Optional Extra: Palazzo Venezia – Hall of the Globe & Mussolini’s Office
  • All with your own personal driver and tour guide for your private group - no sharing with strangers!
  • Tour Fee

    Base Fee for Private Party of up to 6 people
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    €490 Entrance Fee to Palazzo Venezia (payable at entrance):Adult: €10Children: FreeContact Us For groups larger than 7 people
    Notes:

    • Entrance Fee to Palazzo Venezia is payable at the entrance, and is not booked in advance
    • If you add the visit to Palazzo Venezia, please note that this adds one hour to the tour duration.
    • If you add the visit to Palazzo Venezia, please note that the driver will not be available after this visit to take you back to your hotel or apartment.
    If you like this tour, you will love our Ostia Antica Day Trip.

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    What You Get

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    In addition to the high quality tour guide and customer service that comes as standard with all our tours, enjoy the following benefits when you book your own private guided tour for your group
    Benefits of booking a Private Tour

    • Your own personal tour guide - no sharing the tour with strangers
    • Enjoy the tour at your own pace
    • Customise the tour by adding other places not included on the standard tour
    • Remove places you do not wish to include from the itinerary
    • Option of being met at your hotel or a location of your choice available
    • Additional time can be added to make your tour longer
    • Choose your own guide (pending availability)
    • Free cancellation
    People who have booked this tour have also booked our Ancient Rome Tour.

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    Palazzo Venezia –  Hall of the Globe & Mussolini’s Office

    For a more complete tour, your guide will take you into Mussolini’s office, in the Hall of the Globe in what is now Palazzo Venezia, where he met Walt Disney, Ezra Pound and his mistresses.

    This tour adds one hour to the tour duration, and the driver will leave you with your tour guide when you enter. The driver will not be available after this visit to take you back to your hotel or apartment. 

    Entrance Fee to Palazzo Venezia (payable at entrance): €10 per adult, free for children

    Want more from your tour? Contact us to request your custom tour

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    Description

    The term ‘Open City’ signifies a city that has surrendered to an enemy without any fighting or resistance. A unilateral declaration, however, may not be recognised by the enemy. This eventuality is what took place in Rome: after arresting Mussolini, although King Victor Emanuel III declared Rome to be ‘Open City’, German troops occupied the Eternal City and the Allies bombed it 51 times.

    On our Tour, we retrace the events which bloodied Rome Open City, and visit the locations where these events took place: 

    • the EUR district, a new City with Ministries, Museums, Government Palaces,conceived by Mussolini to house the Exhibition Universal of Rome (E.U.R., supposed to take place in 1942).
    • the district of S. Lorenzo, struck by a thousand tons of bombs on July 1943
    • Porta Ostiense, where 3,000 thousands Italians soldiers and ordinary citizens tried to prevent the entry of German tanks
    • Ostiense Station, built to welcome Adolf Hitler visiting Rome in 1938
    • the Ardeatine Caves, where 335 men were massacred in retaliation for the killing of 32 soldiers of the Polizeiregiment ‘Bozen’at Via Rasella
    • Porta Maggiore, through which General Clark and his troops entered Rome on June 5th 1944
    • the Jewish district, where about a thousand Roman Jews were arrested and deported in October 1943

    As giving an account of the urban resistance of roman partisans, we will visit the Gestapo prisons, transformed into the Museum of Liberation, and drive along Via Veneto, which before becoming the street of the ‘dolce vita’, hosted the German Command, and attracted spies, double agents and secret agents, like the famous Peter Thompkins of the Office of Special Services.

    A look at Mussolini’s balcony will make the Tour complete.

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