Vespa Tour “ROME Movie Sets”
Vespa Tour Rome Card
3 hours
32 km
Guide and driver, Vespa, helmet, balaclava, espresso or ice cream, insurance
Via del Viminale 5 (Metro B-A stop Termini)
English/Italian (other languages on request German/French/Spanish/Dutch)
Description Vespa Tour Rome
We will visit the city center together to discover glimpses and landscapes, you will learn anecdotes and curiosities, combining the history of those places with that of Cinema. Our tour will begin with a dutiful tribute to two of the films that have contributed most to making the beauties of Rome known throughout the world: La Dolce Vita and Roman Holiday.
In Via Veneto, we will see the places where Federico Fellini set some unforgettable scenes in La dolce vita, passing through the streets of Audrey Hepburn’s vespa getaway in Roman Holiday, until we reach the location of one of the most famous scenes in the history of Cinema: Anita Ekberg’s bath in the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita.
A place that has been the backdrop to other well-known films such as Three Pennies in the Fountain and We All Loved Each Other So Much, one of the most beautiful works by the master Ettore Scola, also filmed in Piazza del Popolo. Here stands the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo where Dan Brown set some scenes from Angels and Demons and where we can admire a beautiful work by Caravaggio. The welcoming square has hosted films such as The Great Beauty, a film that won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and four European Awards.
Another interesting area for history and cinema is undoubtedly the Vatican.
Fellini used Castel Sant’Angelo to sign his first film, The White Sheik, now included in the list of 100 Italian films to save, and Dan Brown set part of the narrative of Angels and Demons in the Passetto del Borgo, taking advantage of the mysterious charm of this viaduct leading to the Vatican Palaces.
Among the Streets, Fountains, and Churches of Baroque Rome Brad Pitt was chased on foot by Italian police in Ocean’s Twelve, Julia Roberts strolled in Eat, Pray, Love, and Hepburn with Peck filmed a scene in Roman Holiday.
In Spectre, the latest in the 007 saga, James Bond is chased by car at breakneck speed through a deserted Rome, past the Colosseum to the Baths of Caracalla, where the final part of our tour devoted to great historical films will begin.
The Appia Antica has been a real-life protagonist in much of the films that have been set there.
From Ben Hur in the Circus of Maxentius to the award-winning film Gladiator, set in Rome and based on the narratives contained on the Column of Marcus Aurelius. Many films to tell that blend with the history of the places that hosted them in a unique, fun and exciting tour.
Places you'll see with Vespa Tour Rome
- Via Veneto
- Piazza del Popolo
- Ponte Sant’Angelo
- Castel Sant’Angelo
- Aventine
- Piazza Cavalieri di Malta
- Circo di Massenzio
- Mausoleo di Cecilia Metella
- Via Appia Antica
- Colosseo
- Aurelian Walls
- Colonna di Marco Aurelio
- Colonna Traiana
- Pantheon
- Fontana di Trevi