New! Student travel tours to Rome

• Apr 27, 2015

Our school educational trips team have just come back from Rome, full of ideas for new student travel tours.

The team explored Rome, visiting several hotels and lots of educational and historical places of interest to students in the city.

The educational possibilities for students in this wonderful city are limitless. Here are just few that we hope to be incorporating into our new student travel tours to Rome:

• Trajan’s market – an excellent example of urban Roman architecture, the market was built between 107 and 110 A.D. It also contains two spacious halls that were used for educational seminars, speeches, and concerts.
• The Roman Forum – The forum at the heart of the city, gradually got more and more adorned with porticos basilicas and temples; an area where public life manifested itself.
• National Gallery of Modern Art – houses the most important collection of 19th and 20th century Italian art, including works of Balla, Morandi, Pirandello, Carrà, De Chirico, De Pisis, Guttuso, Fontana, Burri, Mastroianni, Turcato, Kandinsky and Cézanne.
• Bioparco and Villa Borghese – take a break from all the museums, and take a stroll through Villa Borghese or visit the Bioparco – where you will find Rome’s Zoo. The 148-acre park also has fountains, lakes, temples, and statues to explore.
• The Museum of Roman Civilization – considered one of Rome’s most unique and interesting museums. The building itself is divided into 59 sections – each an illustration of the history of Roman civilization.
• The National Museum of Rome, which possesses one of the world’s most important archaeological collections.
• The Colosseum – Reaching 159 feet into the sky and measuring a massive 616 feet by 511 feet, this ancient amphitheatre was the setting for public entertainment such as the infamous (and cruel) gladiator combat spectacles. It could accommodate 55,000 spectators.
• The Pantheon – The 141 foot dome is the major attraction here and until 1436, it was the largest dome in the world. At more than 1,800 years old, the Pantheon offers a look back into the great Roman Empire.
• The Trevi fountain: A beautiful fountain, but rarely visited until the movie classics: “Three Coins in the Fountain” (1954) and of course “La Dolce Vita” (1960).
• The Vatican City – The headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, home to the pope and a trove of iconic art and architecture.

Watch this space for more details of our new school travel tours. Meanwhile click on the links for more details of our student travel tours to Rome for Classics students and our educational school trip to Rome for history of Art students.