This tour takes you through the city’s hidden courtyards: quiet corners where history, art and daily life coexist, often unnoticed by the crowds.
We’ll visit quaint and cozy sites. But also courtyards that host important offices, including the Sacra Rota Romana, the Vatican tribunal that, among other things, decides on divorces approved by the Catholic Church (!). Here you’ll get a rare insight into how even the Pope can approve the dissolution of what’s supposed to be an indissoluble sacrament: marriage. We will have time also for a courtyard that host a charming café, perfect for an essential pause with a coffee or cappuccino (because even explorers need their fuel). And then stops in intimate, tiny courtyards, still lived in, where locals go about their daily life in a close-knit, timeless atmosphere. Like a little medieval village… right in the heart of Rome!
Some courtyards are usually off-limits, so access may vary slightly, but that’s part of what makes this tour unique: an insider’s look at a side of Rome that few ever experience.
