Vespa Tour “ROME Movie Sets”

We will visit the city center together to discover views and landscapes, learn anecdotes and curiosities, combining the history of those places with that of Cinema.
Our tour will begin with a fitting tribute to two of the films that have most contributed to making the beauty of Rome known throughout the world: La Dolce Vita and Roman Holiday.
In Via Veneto, we will see the places where Federico Fellini set some unforgettable scenes in La dolce vita, passing through the streets of Audrey Hepburn’s vespa getaway in Roman Holiday, until we reach the location of one of the most famous scenes in the history of Cinema: Anita Ekberg’s bath in the Trevi Fountain in La Dolce Vita.
A place that has been the backdrop for other well-known films such as Three Money In the Fountain and We Were So Loved, one of the master Ettore Scola’s finest works, also filmed in Piazza del Popolo.
Here stands the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in which Dan Brown set some scenes of Angels and Demons and where we can admire a beautiful work by Caravaggio.
The cozy square has hosted films such as La Grande Bellezza, a film that won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and four European Awards.
Another interesting area for history and cinema is undoubtedly the Vatican.
Fellini used Castel Sant’Angelo to sign his first film, The White Sheik, now included in the list of 100 Italian films to save, and Dan Brown set part of the narrative of Angels and Demons in the Passetto del Borgo, taking advantage of the mysterious charm of this viaduct leading to the Vatican Palaces.
Among the Streets, Fountains, and Churches of Baroque Rome Brad Pitt was chased on foot by Italian police in Ocean’s Twelve, Julia Roberts strolled in Eat, Pray, Love, and Hepburn with Peck filmed a scene in Roman Holiday.
In Spectre, the latest in the 007 saga, James Bond is chased by car at breakneck speed through a deserted Rome, past the Colosseum to the Baths of Caracalla, where the final part of our tour devoted to great historical films will begin.
The Appia Antica has been a real-life protagonist in much of the films that have been set there.
From Ben Hur in the Circus of Maxentius to the award-winning film The Gladiator, set in Rome and based on the narratives contained on the Column of Marcus Aurelius.
So many films to be told that they merge with the history of the places that hosted them in a unique, fun and exciting tour.