Small-Group Tour: Jewish Ghetto and Trastevere Walking Tour
Rome, Italy
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Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 3 hours
Explore Rome’s historic Jewish ghetto and Trastevere, and see a side of the Italian capital many visitors miss on this 3-hour small-group walking tour. Follow a guide through the cobbled alleyways of Trastevere and take in top attractions including the Basilica of St Mary in Trastevere. Cross Tiber Island into the Jewish quarter and gain insight into the ghetto’s troubled past. Admire medieval architecture around the Porticus Octaviae and discover key sites of interest such as the 19th-century Synagogue of Rome — built to mark Italy’s unification.
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Explore Rome’s historic Jewish ghetto and Trastevere, and see a side of the Italian capital many visitors miss on this 3-hour small-group walking tour. Follow a guide through the cobbled alleyways of Trastevere and take in top attractions including the Basilica of St Mary in Trastevere. Cross Tiber Island into the Jewish quarter and gain insight into the ghetto’s troubled past. Admire medieval architecture around the Porticus Octaviae and discover key sites of interest such as the 19th-century Synagogue of Rome — built to mark Italy’s unification.Meet your guide in central Rome in the morning, then set off through the city to begin your walking tour. Explore the historic Trastevere and admire popular local landmarks including the impressive Basilica of St Mary in Trastevere.
Stroll down beautiful alleyways to Tiber Island and onward into the Jewish quarter, and gain insight into the struggles and hardships the district’s Jewish residents faced in centuries passed. Learn of the crushing poverty that prevailed, and the tough restrictions placed on the local Jewish population by the government of the day.
Along the way, admire fine 20th-century buildings set alongside medieval architecture, and explore the fascinating archaeological area of the Porticus Octaviae — the remains of an ancient Roman building. Stroll through the medieval alleys that survived the restoration of the area and admire the gorgeous Fountain of Turtles by Giacomo della Porta.
Finish your tour at the Synagogue of Rome — built after Italy’s unification in 1870, when the Jews were given Italian citizenship — and perhaps enter to explore at your leisure (own expense).
Stroll down beautiful alleyways to Tiber Island and onward into the Jewish quarter, and gain insight into the struggles and hardships the district’s Jewish residents faced in centuries passed. Learn of the crushing poverty that prevailed, and the tough restrictions placed on the local Jewish population by the government of the day.
Along the way, admire fine 20th-century buildings set alongside medieval architecture, and explore the fascinating archaeological area of the Porticus Octaviae — the remains of an ancient Roman building. Stroll through the medieval alleys that survived the restoration of the area and admire the gorgeous Fountain of Turtles by Giacomo della Porta.
Finish your tour at the Synagogue of Rome — built after Italy’s unification in 1870, when the Jews were given Italian citizenship — and perhaps enter to explore at your leisure (own expense).
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