Rome: Study Tour
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Highlights
- Superb collections of antiquities, including the Vatican Museums, the Capitoline Museums and Palazzo Massimo
- The spectacular works of Caravaggio and Bernini throughout the city and in the Galleria Borghese
- Excursions to Ostia Antica, Hadrian’s Villa, and the masterful baroque Villa d’Este
- Detailed lecture series providing you with extensive knowledge of the city and its past
- Walking tours visiting Rome’s hidden gems and masterpieces by Raphael, Bramante and Borromini
- Modern Rome, including a visit to the house and studio of Giorgio de Chirico
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- Any flights mentioned in the itinerary that take place during a tour
- Land travel by private air-conditioned coach. Where appropriate public transport is also used for short distance travel on some tours
- All accommodation in hotels or apartments as stated in the itinerary
- Breakfasts, lunches and dinners specifically stated as included in the itinerary
- Drinks at welcome and farewell meals. Other meals may not have drinks included
- Background talks on tour, site notes and online resources
- Services of tour leader throughout tour
- All entrance fees to sites mentioned in the itinerary
- Local guides at some sites
- Tips for drivers, local guides and restaurants for included meals
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Meals: Dinner
The tour begins in the lobby of our apartments this afternoon, where we meet for an orientation walk of the local neighbourhood with your tour leader. After time to settle in, we have dinner in a local restaurant.
Millennia of building, rebuilding, adapting and recycling can make it difficult to see Rome’s history clearly through its monuments. Adding to the complexity is the way the city and its monuments have been used to serve different agendas over the centuries. This morni...
The Romans’ love of Greek culture is nowhere more evident than in the art of the Hellenic world they brought back home or had copied. The Greek influence on Roman art, however, is only part of the story. Roman art was also heavily influenced by Etruscan culture and, a...
Christianity had been practised in Rome since the 1st century CE, but it was not until the 4th century that it left great monuments. Most of the churches of Late Antiquity were replaced in the grand rebuilding projects of the 1100s and 1500s, but the ones that have su...
The decline of the Empire and the resulting wars in Italy reduced Rome’s population to about a hundredth of what it had been. The population retreated to a small pocket on the Tiber, where they fortified themselves among the ruins of a glorious past. The city remained...
In the 15th century, the Popes began to systematically restore Rome to its magnificence. Artists, architects, engineers and intellectuals were brought in from around Italy to work on this project, which included rebuilding roads and aqueducts, to cataloguing newly dis...
Meals: Dinner
Rome today gives very little sense of life in the ancient city. This morning we take the train to Ostia Antica. In its heyday, from the 1st century BCE to the 4th century CE, the population of this town worked the harbour, through which ships from...
Raphael and Michelangelo left an indelible mark on Western art history, but their deaths also created a vacuum. In Rome, leading families with an eye on the papal tiara were searching for the next great artists, in the hope that the kudos they would gain from associat...
Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V, was an avid collector and an adept talent-spotter: he was a major patron of Caravaggio and took a teenage Bernini under his wing. The villa he commissioned on what was then the edge of Rome, surrounded by gardens,...
Meals: Lunch
Ancient Rome has provided a constant source of inspiration for artists and architects. The interest in all things Roman in the 15th and 16th centuries exploded, however, fuelled by the number of new discoveries made by people actively recovering bu...
Meals: Dinner
As the de facto rulers of Rome, Renaissance popes were in an ideal position to amass extraordinary collections of art and antiquities. That the papacy would be heavily invested in the discovery and preservation of non-Christian works is a result o...
The tour ends this morning. Please check your individual travel plans for information about transfers.
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Academy Travel is an Australian-owned travel company, dedicated to providing tailored small group journeys for individuals and associations. Academy Travel is a qualified travel agency. As well as managing your tour booking, our experienced consultants are happy to assist with all aspects of your travel, including international flights, pre and post-tour accommodation and travel insurance.
Academy Travel is an open-age program and one business in our wider family of travel businsses including ADFAS Travel, School Tours and Sports Tours.
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What's excluded
- Return international/domestic air travel unless those flights take place during the tour
- Special taxes and airport levies that can only be paid in cash at the destination. We will advise you of these charges (if any) before you depart
- Costs involved in obtaining visas for countries visited, where required
- Travel insurance. We require all participants to have comprehensive travel insurance. A typical policy for one of our tours will cost from $160 upwards, depending on your age, pre-existing medical conditions, the countries you are visiting and the overall length of your trip
- Lunches and dinners not specifically mentioned as included in the itinerary
- Personal expenses such as laundry and phone calls
- Costs associated with any activity mentioned as “optional” in the itinerary, or any suggested free time activity
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Final payment of the tour fee, insurance and any additional travel will be due 60 days before departure.
If you decide to cancel your booking the following charges apply:
- More than 60 days before departure: $500*
- 60-45 days before tour start: 25% of total amount due
- 44-15 days before tour start: 75% of total amount due
- 14 days or less before departure: 100% of total amount due
*This amount may be credited to another Academy Travel tour within 12 months of the original tour you booked.
1 Lunch and 3 Dinners
Get to know
- Roman antiquity, from the Etruscans to the Christians
- The transition to the Middle Ages: Rome’s role in shaping European culture
- The glory of Renaissance and baroque Rome, from Michelangelo and Raphael to Caravaggio and Bernini
- Rome beyond the tourist trail, including Ostia Antica and the house and studio of Giorgio de Chirico
- The neighbourhoods of Rome, where contemporary culture lives alongside its ancient inspiration
Study Tours
Academy Travel study tours are designed to provide in-depth intellectual stimulation for the independent traveller. The tours feature:
- Daily background lectures
- Morning guided site visits
- Several afternoons for individual exploration or optional visits with the tour leader
- Longer walking tours of historical cities, and use of public transport for short journeys
- Self-contained accommodation where possible, allowing you to live like a local
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