Rome tours are more fun using a "Theme"

Recently a lady contacted me with a request.

 "Plan a one-week trip  tour of Rome  for my husband, myself and our teen age grandchildren"

Fortunately I have a teen age daughter and I have some clues on how to make an educational place like Rome interesting.

After thinking about it for awhile I remembered what can make touring boring:

• You start the day with only a vague idea of where you are going or what you are going to see.
• Not so much a problem at the Vatican or Colosseum but for the rest of Rome it can be
•  Guides usually take the "geographic" approach to touring.
• They take you to an area and tell you about everything in that area .
• doesn't matter that the topics covered may be "art" , "politics" "war" if it's there they tell you about it
• The discussion may span centuries of time
• By the time you are finished your head is spinning and ,sometimes, you don't remember anything.

My solution, take a "theme" approach to touring. We can take a theme or two or even three.

With this "theme" approach  instead of learning "every exhausting detail" about a place, we take a place and learn just the things there that relate to a theme that we have identified as interesting.

Here is an example from the Luxury Private Tour of Rome I developed for Helen.

The themes were

• Ancient Rome

• The Holy See - the Vatican and its predecessors

• Renaissance Rome
• Rome of the Martyrs

When we went to the Borghese Gallery, for example, instead of taking  3 hours and looking at all of the paintings and sculptures, we only looked at the work of the 4 artists we agreed would comprise our "Renaissance Rome" theme. They were:

• Bernini
• Michelangelo
• Caravaggio
• Borromini

We went in. We saw the painting and sculptures that we created by our subjects and we were out in an hour! 

We saw the great work. We were not bored. We remembered which works were by whom and why they were important.
Most of all we actually were able to "ENJOY" the visit.










When you plan a visit to Rome, consider a private tour of Rome and look MyRomeTourGuide.com for good ideas.