Reviews
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
She was so knowledgeable and shared great information. The tour was well guided and she pointed out important parts of history. Very smart and accurate. Had an amazing time!
March, 2024
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
Not only was Caterina knowledgeable, but she was kind and generous during the tour. We loved EVERY minute of it. Well worth the extra cost to skip the line and hear all the history. Highly recommend!
March, 2024
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
Amazing tour guide. Very friendly and extremely knowledgeable about all the smaller details during the tour. Would recommend 10/10.
March, 2024
Vatican
We cannot thank Caterina enough for giving us such a wonderful tour with lots of fabulous stories. We had a magnificent time and enjoyed tremendously the experience.
February, 2024
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
The Colosseum, Palatine Hill and The Forum tour with Caterina was awesome! It was so informative and interesting and Caterina made it fun too.
January, 2024
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
We just finished our tour of the Colosseum, Forum, and Palentine Hill with Cat. She was a very informative and wonderful guide, bringing the history to life for us! We moved very efficiently, and were able to get in to everything right away.
January, 2024
Vatican
Caterina was amazing and looked after us very well. We had virtually no waiting times … She worked her magic and avoided all the queues. Well presented information with passion and knowledge. Would highly recommend her to all travellers.
October, 2023
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
Cathy did an exceptional job on our tour! She was articulate, engaging, and knowledgeable. Our first trip to Italy and we couldn’t have been more satisfied! We highly recommend Cathy as your tour guide! Grazie!!!
September 2023
Vatican
Cathy was very friendly and knowledgeable. Without her guidance we would have been lost and learned nothing. We are very happy an feel lucky to have her help.
September, 2023
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
Our tour with Caterina was fabulous. She has a wealth of information, which she shared perfectly!
August, 2023
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
Caterina was lovely and knowledgeable. We had a great tour with her.
June, 2023
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
We had a wonderful time with Caterina at the Colosseum. She was an excellent tour guide and great with the kids.
June, 2023
Rome Day Tour
Caterina was a fabulous guide. She is so knowledgeable and funny. We liked her so much we are wishing she would be our guide for all our upcoming tours.
June, 2023
Colosseum, Forum & Palatine hill
Caterina was outstanding. She was able to engage both children, 4 and 8, for 2.5 hours. In fact, my 4 year old was disappointed that she didn’t join us for lunch. She’s very knowledgeable and gave us a great insight into the history of Rome.
May, 2023
Vatican
Caterina was fantastic. I loved that she gave us some much art history -- it was really, really great and well worth the money.
April, 2023
Vatican
Caterina really deserves our praise for a job well done. We have been on guided tours before in other parts of the world and she is by far the best we have experienced so far. Grazie mille.
April, 2023
Rome Day Tour
Cathy took us around Ancient Rome and kept our for children engaged (15, 13, 10 and 8). There is no way we could have covered as much ground on our own and if we tried we would have missed the details of the history behind the sites.
April, 2023
Colosseum & Palatine hill
"Kathy was every bit as good! Great that we were just us and her and it felt like she was just walking us through a part of her city rather than operating a tour. Brilliant!"
April, 2022
Full day in Rome
"Fabulous.Katherine was great! Definitely recommend to anyone!"
April, 2022
Colosseum
"My 20 year old daughter and I had a 2 hour private tour of the Colosseum, including the underground and stage areas, with Caterina. My daughter is not a history buff and she said afterwards she worried she might be bored but she loved it! Caterina is so knowledgeable and enthusiastic that she brought it all to life with expert knowledge and interesting stories and we got so much more out of the experience than we would have done alone."
November, 2021
Customized full day tour
"Passionate guide. Calm, organized and highly educated - was a pleasure to be with her."
October, 2021
Caravaggio
"Excellent experience. Caterina our guide was extremely knowledgeable and engaging. She really gave us an insight into Caravaggio’s Rome while giving us real analysis on some of his masterworks.Recommended."
October, 2021
Jewish quarter virtual tour
"The Jewish Ghetto tour was amazing. Caterina was so knowledgeable and was an amazing guide. This area is definitely a place I want to see next time I am in Rome and I hope Caterina will be my in personal guide."
March, 2021
Ancient Rome virtual tour
"Being born in Tivoli, not far from Rome, I believed that I would not discover many new things about this city during the virtual tour. But I soon had to change my mind: Caterina was absolutely brilliant, I was impressed! She told many curious, exciting aspects about Rome in a very pleasant way, putting everyone at ease. It was a beautiful moment of escape from everyday life. I can't wait to go back to Rome and visit it with her."
February, 2021
Caravaggio virtual tour
"My grandfather and I took the Caravaggio in Rome tour with Caterina, and we were thoroughly impressed. Caterina gave a well balanced tour of Caravaggio's roman art, what his life must have been like, the artistic influences he would have been drawn to, and the overall impact that this "rock star" had on art thereafter, which was immense to say the least. My grandfather and I have not been able to see each other for over a year as we live across the USA from each other but this was a perfect way to enjoy our favorite artist together. A big thanks to Caterina."
January, 2021
Jewish quarter virtual tour
"Caterina was a wonderful tour guide. Perfectly fluent in English, a wonderful background in the history of this particular area and Rome in general. She was engaging, thorough, and even brought into the conversation the origins of the Jews and Christians in the area from the Jews arrival through today. Her slide presentation was very good. There was never a boring moment. The "Zoom" connection was great. I highly recommend this tour. Thanks Caterina :)"
December, 2020
Full day in Rome
" All that I can say is WOW! Our tour guide Caterina was awesome. If we had never asked a single question we would have had plenty of information to come away with. However, we asked a lot of questions that were thoroughly answered form food, culture, art, architecture and lifestyles both of ancient and modern Roman eras. Caterina made the tour personable and was quite the treat. From Ancient Rome, Spanish Steps, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain to the Vatican and all the points in-between.... the day flew by. We are all in our 50\'s and 60\'s and in good health and we feel we would have missed so much if we did a bus tour and had not actually walked the city. We had taken a short taxi ride from Spanish steps to the restaurant for lunch which afforded us more time to eat. The restaurant that Caterina chose for lunch was amazing for the pizza and it was just a short walk to the Vatican where we ended our full day tour. Caterina kept the walking pace easy and enjoyable. This walking tour went above and beyond our expectations and was well worth the value. We would recommend and share the experience to anyone making their way to the Eternal City of Rome. Thank You So Much! Kenny, Ken and Pat"
October, 2019
Vatican Tour
"Caterina was a fantastic tour guide sharing her art history and knowledge of the Vatican. She made buying this guided tour seem genius :)"
October, 2019
Jewish quarter
"We were enlightened by hearing again this living history. Every stop had a new meaning. It greatly enhanced our visitor experience. Katerina was personable and knowledgeable and patient with our questions. The meeting point was easy to find. We are glad we did not miss this important section of the city."
September, 2019
Piazzas & Fountains
"Caterina is an excellent guide. We learned so much from her. For example we had visited The Pantheon previously without a guide. We knew nothing from that visit but Caterina provided information that gave us so much more!"
September, 2019
Catacombs & Underground Rome
"Caterina was excellent, we greatly enjoyed the underground tour. She was an excellent source of knowledge about art and the history of the city."
July, 2019
Catacombs & Underground Rome
"Fabulous tour with an incredibly knowledgeable guide! Loved the three different spots and hVatican Tourow our guide was able to point out and integrate motifs across the different sites while also highlighting their unique connections to Roman history."
July, 2019
Vatican tour
"We have enjoyed our Vatican tour with Caterina. She sincerely loves what she does. It was well organized tour and Caterina navigated through the crowds skillfully."
June, 2019
Vatican tour
"Our tour guide was extremely informative. I only wish all the guides were full of knowledge as she was. Enjoyed the tour so much.."
May, 2019
Forum & Colosseum Tour
" She is an excellent communicator and presented relevant and key information superbly."
€May,2019
Full day in Rome
"It was a great tour with a great guide. Kathy, our guide, was nothing short of amazing. Her knowledge of Rome was short of outstanding. The lunch location she selected was perfect. The locations we visited were perfect, the time at each one was perfect."
April, 2019
Capitoline Museums
"Tremendous tour, both geographically and historically. She has a great personality and love for her city. We highly recommend this experience for anyone!"
March, 2019
Borghese gallery
"Caterina was very professional yet personable, and our group loved having her as our guide."
October, 2018
Borghese gallery
"Our tour guide, Caterina, was excellent! We learned a lot about the history and the most important art at the gallery. It was also good that there were only 8 people on the tour.
October, 2018
Customized Rome Tour with Capitoline Museums
"Kathy was an excellent guide and historian with a lot of insight into the meaning of many of the sculptures and artefacts that we saw on our tour. Because of the long lines to many of the attractions, she improvised and the tour of the museum was the highlight of the day. She was impressive on periods and dates regarding statues, ,paintings, artefacts, and architecture, giving history and anecdotes regarding the meaning and/or origin of these pieces. We ended up at the Church of St. Mary? (the oldest church in Rome) where a baptism was being held but the interior of this church as well as writings from the catacombs on the outside walls were impressive. While we did not wish to wait in tortuous long lines for some of the sites, Kathy was able to take us around the outside (e.g. the Fortress) and explain the connection between the Fortress and the Vatican enabling Popes to seek sanctuary in the Fortress. Many of the tidbits on the fountains we saw and the squares that we visited were items that we may not have gotten otherwise. I think we must have walked more than 9.8 miles on this tour!"
October, 2018
Tivoli: Hadrian's Villa & Villa D'Este
"We took a 6 hour private day tour of Hadrian's villa and Villa d'Este. Our guide, Caterina, met us at our hotel with a driver, and we proceeded to Hadrian's villa first. Her English language was impeccable, and she was very nice and knowledgeable, having a degree in art history. We spent several hours at the magnificent site, as she described what life must have been like in ancient times there if you were royalty, guests, or humble slave. We really felt she portrayed well the story the ruins revealed. We then had a short cafe style lunch and, as we were curious tourists, found out about modern life in the city of Rome. Onwards following lunch a short walk led us to Villa d'Este and its history and beautiful gardens and fountains. Our tour was very memorable, our guide Caterina was superb, and, although not inexpensive, we felt the sites and her insights were a very valuable experience for us. Highly recommended!"
September, 2018