Understanding Rome

Understanding Rome Tailor-made private tours of Rome. 24 years experience. Native Londoner, naturalised Roman. For bookings email [email protected]

Fully licensed as a guide by the Province of Rome, I have 20 years' experience giving tours in and around Rome. Let me help you discover why Rome is one of the most enthralling and exciting cities in the world.

Details of exquisitely timeless tenderness, almost overwhelming in their humanity, at the excellent Giotto show
21/05/2026

Details of exquisitely timeless tenderness, almost overwhelming in their humanity, at the excellent Giotto show

A sunny Sunday morning in May amid the somnolent ruins of Ostia Antica is quite the nicest way to spend a few hours. Fea...
17/05/2026

A sunny Sunday morning in May amid the somnolent ruins of Ostia Antica is quite the nicest way to spend a few hours. Featuring excellent floors and glorious wild flowers. (And not a soul about)

More successful downpour dodging under mutable skies on today’s tours!
16/05/2026

More successful downpour dodging under mutable skies on today’s tours!

Quiet corners and views of the glorious palimpsest of the Theatre of Marcellus from this morning’s tour from the Campido...
14/05/2026

Quiet corners and views of the glorious palimpsest of the Theatre of Marcellus from this morning’s tour from the Campidoglio to the Colosseum

Glimpses of just some of the things I saw on today’s downpour-dodging tours. Twenty thousand steps, twenty-seven (ish) c...
13/05/2026

Glimpses of just some of the things I saw on today’s downpour-dodging tours. Twenty thousand steps, twenty-seven (ish) centuries

The last of the azaleas on the Spanish Steps this morning, especially for my mama .crawford2017 ! 🌸🌺❤️
12/05/2026

The last of the azaleas on the Spanish Steps this morning, especially for my mama .crawford2017 ! 🌸🌺❤️

Strong Ozymandias energy under moody skies this afternoon
10/05/2026

Strong Ozymandias energy under moody skies this afternoon

Iterations of acanthus spotted on this week’s tours: flowering on the Palatine Hill; advertising the eternal spring of t...
08/05/2026

Iterations of acanthus spotted on this week’s tours: flowering on the Palatine Hill; advertising the eternal spring of the Augustan age at the Ara Pacis; and amid the glorious and dusty charms of Villa Celimontana. Burgeoning acanthus is just one of umpteen reasons why May in Rome is exquisite 💚

A year ago today Pope Leo XIV was elected. I made it to piazza San Pietro in the nick of time and this is one of the pho...
08/05/2026

A year ago today Pope Leo XIV was elected. I made it to piazza San Pietro in the nick of time and this is one of the photos I took. More photos feature in this month’s free monthly newsletter: understandingrome.substack.com, or link in bio

The sixteenth century fountains of Piazza Farnese, topped with the Farnese iris, recycled vast tubs from the Baths of Ca...
02/05/2026

The sixteenth century fountains of Piazza Farnese, topped with the Farnese iris, recycled vast tubs from the Baths of Caracalla. They were quarried in the early third century at Aswan in Egypt, and every time I see them I think of them atop barges negotiating crocodiles and hippopotamuses (probably) along the Nile; it is, if you will, a crocodile rock 😬. And that, chums, is just one of many reasons why Rome is just too fabulously extraordinary for words.

My first missive about “Bernini and the Barberini” the show at Palazzo Barberini has just gone out to subscribers. Under...
29/04/2026

My first missive about “Bernini and the Barberini” the show at Palazzo Barberini has just gone out to subscribers.
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