Secrets of Rome: Dark Side Small Group Walking Tour

Highlights

• Sites of Public Executions
• Papal and Borgia Secrets
• Chilling Ghost Stories

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   St. Angelo Bridge

   20min

   Start your walking tour at the most popular location for public executions in ancient Rome. Learn about the Papal Fortress of Castel Sant'Angelo, and see the Vatican from a different angle.

2. 2

   Stop 2

   15min

   Stop and listen to the spine-chilling story of an executioner who single-handedly put hundreds of people to death.

3. 3

   Via dei Banchi Vecchi

   30min

   Follow your guide down this narrow and dark, cobbled street to the place where one of the most prolific serial killers of Rome used to live.

4. 4

   Via Giulia

   10min

   The next stop is Via Giulia, one of the most beautiful streets of Rome.

5. 5

   Chiesa di Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte

   15min

   The church of the Prayer and Death used to be the headquarters of a mysterious brotherhood of mercy.

6. 6

   Campo De' Fiori

   30min

   Your tour ends at the heart of Rome, the lively farmers' market of Campo De'Fiori. Once a very dark and scary place where thousands of heretics and witches were burned alive.

Before you go

Location