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This itinerary is about 120 kilometers
(75 miles) and takes 9/10 hours. We'll ride over the Alban
Hills to reach Rome via country roads, and we'll visit the
highlights of the Eternal City before retracing our steps to Segni.
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We only do this tour on week-ends or holydays.
City traffic is really chaotic during the week and it isn't
advisable to try to tour around town on a motor-scooter therefore .
But everything really calms down during the week-end and so
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| We leave Segni around 8:00 am, heading
for Rome. We will drive on nice country roads the woody Alban Hills,
whose vineyards supply Rome with the famous "Vino dei Castelli".
We'll make a half way rest stop in
Frascati or
Castel Gandolfo.
We'll then make our triumphal arrival in Rome pressing with the
wheels of our scooters the millenary cobblestones of the "Old Appian
Way". We'll see the ruins of the Circus of Maxentius and the tombs of "Romulus" and "Caecilia
Metella" and then finally the walls of
Rome will appear in front of our eyes. Once inside the belt of walls
we'll stop to admire the ruins of the famous
baths of Caracalla.
At a very short distance from there if the famous Flavian
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Amphitheatre, better known by
its nick name: the
Colosseum. After visiting the
place we'll finally transfer to the center of the city center and
visit the
Pantheon,
Trevi Fountain,
Piazza Navona,
Spanish
Steps and anything else we'll be able to fit in before moving to the
Vatican to visit
St. Peter's Basilica.
Naturally we'll not follow a set itinerary, we'll have to
move according to several imponderable factors such as
traffic, riding skills etc., so maybe some of the sites may
be left out of the itinerary if we move slow of more places
could be fitted in if we move faster than average. For
example, you have to go through metal detectors to go into
St. Peter's and the line could be pretty long |
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| sometimes... Riding a scooter through the
streets of Rome in an unforgettable experience which of
course makes everyone think of the famous movie "Roman
Holidays", but please don't imitate Audrey Hepburn in her
driving! We
could have lunch sitting outdoors in trattoria, off the
beaten track or on one of the famous piazzas, as well as we
might just snack with a salad or a sandwich in a nice
cafeteria with tables on the sidewalk. To remain faithful to
this "Roman Holidays" atmosphere, of course we'll have to
have an ice-cream somewhere along
the way, preferably in Piazza Navona where they serve the
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For those who are crazy enough to do it,
we could stop at the lake of Castel Gandolfo on the way back
and go for a swim. In the hot summer months, from mid June
through September, that is very pleasant. Naturally, since
we are evoking "Roman Holidays" we might as well visit all
the places you see in the movie or, if you prefer something
more modern, we can follow the steps of Robert Langdon and
do an "Angels and Demons"
tour! If we do this "Angels and Demons" tour, you'll also have fun
discovering that
Dan Brown took a few "licenses".
Of course as we tour, I'll provide you with all the
information about the places we visit. It will not be a
detailed guided tour, because Rome is a very big city with
lots of places to see and things to do and we'll only
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have a few hours available to us, but at the end of the day
you'll know who built the Colosseum and why. Concluding, whichever kind of tour we do, theme, off the beaten path
if you already know Rome or the basic highlights if this will be
your first time in the city, I can guarantee you're going to have a
great time. It's nice to do a driving tour of Rome, very enjoyable
also to do a walking guided tour, but a scooter tour beats them all!
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