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Join us on a night walk uncovering places and stories covering over a thousand years of Rome’s strangest unexplained apparitions and preternatural phenomena surrounding eternal Rome’s most tragic stories of betrayal, murder and romance.
This tour is great for travellers who wish to explore the mysterious and macabre side of Rome's rich history. Together with your professional guide you will visit Rome's best supernatural sites in an effort to see through the veil and come face-to-face with the ghosts of ages past.
We will finish the tour in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon.
We will finish the tour in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon.
We will begin just before nightfall at the foot of the statue of Giordano Bruno in Rome's iconic Piazza Campo de’ Fiori where your guide will explain the Dominican Friar’s very unorthodox cosmological theories and beliefs which lead to his eventual public execution by burning. We will also cover Bruno’s consideration as a freemason by Italy’s masonic community.
20 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will pass along Via Monserrato to the women’s prison where the condemned Beatrice Cenci spent her last days awaiting her execution by decapitation. From here we will continue on to the Spanish National Church, the burial site of the infamous Borgia Pope Alexander VI. The bizarre story of his burial and favourite mistress will capture your full attention as we make our way to the next stop.
30 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will walk Via dei Coronari where the courtesans of Renaissance Rome once lived and worked. We will visit the site of the home and ‘workplace” of Giovanni Bugatti, Rome’s most famous executioner, also known as Mastro Titta.
20 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Overlooking the Tiber River at the Sant’ Angelo bridge with the stunningly lit facade of Castel Sant’ Angelo providing our backdrop, your guide will tell the story of Beatrice Cenci and describe the history of criminal justice in Papal Rome. After discussing some of Castel Sant’ Angelo’s more high profile prisoners we will depart from the riverside and make our way to Piazza Navona.
45 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will stop in Piazza Navona by Palazzo Doria Pamphilj where the infamous Olimpia Maidalchini aka la Pimpaccia lived and worked until the death of her patron, Pope Innocent X. After her mysterious death the sightings of her black carriage rushing out of the city across Ponte Sisto still haunt Rome to this day. Still in Piazza Navona, your guide will point out that one of the buildings seems to be inhabited by a disembodied hand of the Lady Costanza De Cupris and here you will learn her story.
45 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We will conclude our walk in Piazza della Rotonda at the Pantheon where we will discuss the stories of the ghost of assassinated King Umberto I, who recently appeared to the honour guard that protects his tomb. For those who would like, we may conclude the tour with a delicious gelato by the Pantheon.
20 Minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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