CARDINALS, ALCHEMISTS AND COURTESANS – Walking in Renaissance Rome

You can choose a half-day tour or a full day. Renaissance Rome http://www.myvespatours.com/en/home/ is the tour dedicated to the Roman Renaissance, with its squares and the majestic palaces took the most important Roman noble families of the ‘500. You can choose a tour in Ape Calessino, or a tour on a Vespa (with or without driver). Crossing Via Giulia (rich in history, art and culture), you arrive at Ponte Sisto, entering the Trastevere district, a true symbol of a Rome apparently disappeared, but still alive. Piazza Farnese and Campo de’ Fiori? Of course, even in these two places – among the most significant of the city – this tour has its stages.

Caravaggio? A brilliant hothead who arrived in Rome at the age of twenty years, creating masterpieces that opened the doors for a new season of painting. Often involved in violent fights, he became famous for the extreme realism of what he painted, as well as for its style characterized by chiaroscuro. Walking the streets of Renaissance Rome, pays you – as he did – to the humblest aspects of daily life, observing the normal people around you. Enters the church of Santa Maria del Popolo (decorated with works by Raphael and other great Renaissance artists), you will find its realism even in the faith, to keep his paintings in this church.

Villa Farnesina had been built at the beginning of the sixteenth century, for a Sienese banker. It was, and is an authentic masterpiece of Renaissance art. Here, Raphael and his followers have created a wonderful setting for the banquets of that banker. Ponte Sisto, leads you in the Renaissance district of Rome, where you will perceive clearly the contrast between narrow alleys and magnificent palaces. Palazzo Spada gives you “the perspective gallery”, a curious surprise (architect invention Borromini). In France and in the building of the Palace of the Chancellery (seat of the Sacra Rota), they are waiting for the testimony of Michelangelo’s architectural genius. The big thrill palaces like the small inner courtyards, but arriving in the picturesque market square, Campo de’ Fiori, you can breathe and live again the Rome of the popes.

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