The Grand Pantheum Suite

Right in the heart of the city, Villa Ada is Rome’s second largest public park. As fascinating as it is surprising, between archaeological ruins and history both ancient and recent, with its luscious vegetation and thriving animal population, this green lung is the ideal location for regenerating walks. Across woods and paths, we will take travelers among the ruins of ancient civilizations as well as the evidence of a less remote path, such as the bunker used by the Savoia family during the Second World War, or a collection of mysterious tombs. Hidden between clearing and chasms, and isolated from satellite signal, if you are fortunate you may also meet the man who lives in the trees.

A full immersion in the most famous Italian culinary experience to learn how to make pasta, including fettuccine and ravioli, how to cook homemade pasta and how to create the perfect sauce to go along with it. 

Embark on an experiential journey of Italian food and wine in this course with one of the most internationally recognised Masters of cuisine. From preparation to presentation, you will learn how to prepare the most famous cocktails, or pasta dishes, or gelato, or desserts, to the legendary pizza. The classes will take place directly in Cristina Bowerman's famous restaurant “Romeo”, so you will be able to experience the kitchen in full swing and be part of the iconic venue’s vibrant atmosphere.

As if in a movie, go back through the centuries to travel one of the most ancient streets in the world to collect fruits along the way. We will bring our travelers along the Appia Antica, the ancient route that connected the Empire’s capital to the far South. An immersive experience between noble villas, military camps, tombs and mausoleums only a few kilometers from the city center. Raise your eyes to admire the typical Roman pines that line the ancient road, which for seven months each year offer us their fragrant fruit. On this path you will learn about the wonders of the past, make friends with the Roman pine tree and gather the main ingredient of one of the greatest sauces in Italian cuisine: pesto.

If you are a fan of beer, this is the perfect way to get to know the best Italian breweries and their products, with their merits and particularities, through an exploration of their geographical origin.

Tasting, as you may know, is not only about taste, just like listening is not only about sound. It is a real sensual and sensory experience that involves all the senses, even the sixth. An exciting journey in one of the most famous restaurants in the world led by culinary experts who know the raw materials they choose just like a scientist would, but who are also acutely aware of the human soul and the emotional functioning of human beings, and are capable of uniting the knowledge of the latter and the former in what industry insiders call neuro-enogastronomy.

Grandeur, marvel, persuasion. We will bring an elegant and exciting chamber music performance to your home, with the aim of creating harmony between the audience and performer. The Concerto for oboe and violoncello will recreate the conditions of an era during which music was performed in private settings and for a select and restricted audience. On the comfort of your sofa in your Grand House you will be transported through the scores of the greatest Italian and European composers. Through Vivaldi, but also Handel and Albinoni, you will relive baroque Rome, with its courts, cardinals and typical architecture, a place of meetings and the stage for many relationships between musicians, writers and intellectuals. Your home, as if in the 17th century, will become the intimate setting in which the first concerts of chamber music first began to emerge.

Villa Torlonia is an architectural jewel in full liberty style, and played a leading role in 20th century history. It was founded as an agricultural estate, and over the centuries became the property of some of the most important families in Rome. Even Benito Mussolini succumbed to its charm, so much that he moved his residence here. Its surprising and mysterious buildings - perfect to enchant children and adults (the Cascina delle Civette, the neoclassical Casino Nobile and the renaissance era Casino dei Principi, as well as Mussolini’s bunker) - will plunge you in a timeless atmosphere that has lived through the history of the city and its nation.

A little more than 300 meters in length and no wider than 90, it is among the smallest inhabited islands in the world and, despite this, houses the monumental 16th century hospital Fatebenefratelli. Myth says that in 291 BC Aesculapius, god of medicine, hid in a Roman ship sailing to Greece in the guise of a snake to seek help from the Gods and save his people from a plague. It is said that on his return the snake escaped from the boat and hid on the island. A temple was erected here to worship him, over the ruins of which the Church of Saint Bartholomy, which today still shelters a miraculous spring, was later built.