Departure from Logan International Airport on the late afternoon of April 12 to take a "red eye" overseas to Fiumicino Airport in Rome.

Land in Rome. I'll pick up my van rental, which will hold 9 passengers (more on this below). Check into our lodgings, a B&B along the Via Appia Antica. After check in, move to the nearby Tomb of Metella to take public transit via bus to downtown Rome. Here we will start an orientation tour, followed by an early dinner. We return via public transport back to our B&B.

The Roman Forum, Palatine, Capitolium Museum and, of course, the Colosseum. Also included will be Trajan's Market, and as it is a Sunday, and it's open, the Emperor Nero's Golden House on the Esquiline. Lunch on your own. Dinner in the Eternal City.

On Mondays, the major museums are closed. The smaller churches, however, are open to the public. This day will include the Roman street level of Santo Clemente where underneath the church's altar is the Mithraeum Shrine. We will visit the church of the Capuchin monks, Santo Luigi, where several famous Carravagio paintings are displayed. We will visit Santo del Populo, where more Carravagio paintings are located. We will visit the Piazza Navona as well as the Pantheon, where Rafael is buried. Dinner in the City.

Early morning departure to Vatican City to see both the Museo Vaticano (in the Morning), a lunch break, then in the afternoon the Saint Peter's Basilica itself. A stop at Piazza Fiori to shop for victuals to make our own Italian dinner back at our B&B.

An enjoyable day to Tivoli, to take in the massive palatial villa of the Emperor Hadrian. Dinner in Tivoli. Return to the B&B.

The Via Appia Antica, to include the Claudian Aqueduct, the Villa Quintili, the brothers murdered on trumped up treason charges so the Emperor Domitian could confiscate their estate for his own use, several tombs, to include the Scipios, the slave, freedwomen and Freedmen Mausoleum of Livia Augusta (We'll take lunch here), build by the empress to house the remains of those humble servants who waited on her hand and foot. The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian, patron saint of soldiers, Metella's Tomb, and the Aurelian Wall. Dinner back at our B&B.

Early morning departure to return to Fiumicino, and our connecting flight back to Logan Airport, Massachusetts.