The Eternal City on your own clock: Sistine at dawn, aperitivo on a rooftop, a Vespa waiting when the light is right.
Five nights in Rome without a single line, without a single crowd. Your itinerary opens the doors that stay closed to everyone else: the Vatican before dawn, the Colosseum after dusk, a private audience with the city's most quietly kept trattorias.
Private transfer from Fiumicino. Check-in at Hotel de la Ville and aperitivo on its rooftop above the Spanish Steps as the swifts wheel between the domes.
Rome's warm dust and cypress on the evening air, the pop of a first Franciacorta cork, and the deep gold of travertine at sundown.
Enter the Sistine Chapel with your art historian before the public. Long, unhurried time beneath Michelangelo's ceiling, then espresso in a private salon of the Vatican Museums.
The improbable silence of an empty Sistine, the cool of ancient marble, the small clatter of a single espresso cup in a frescoed room.
After-hours private access to the Colosseum and the Palatine as the last light drops. A candlelit dinner in a private hall of a 16th-century palazzo, prepared by a Michelin chef.
The dry warm scent of Roman pine, torches snapping in the wind on the Palatine, the low ring of crystal in a frescoed dining hall.
A guided vintage Vespa ride through Trastevere and Testaccio, stopping at four legendary counters — the pizza bianca at Roscioli, supplì at Trapizzino, an unmarked wine bar — known only to Romans.
The buzz of a small engine on cobblestones, hot bread and warm mozzarella, the tang of a chilled Cesanese in a shaded alley.
A private morning at the Galleria Borghese with the Bernini gallery reserved to you. Farewell lunch at a Michelin-starred rooftop with the whole of Rome unfolding below.
The soft crunch of gravel in the Borghese gardens, marble Berninis close enough to touch, and the whole city glinting in the midday sun.
Rocco Forte's terrace above the Spanish Steps.
Dorchester Collection, unmatched Dome view from La Terrazza.
A quiet palazzo retreat with a Roman bath spa.
