Duration: 2 hours

A 2 hours chatty walking tour around Testaccio, Rome’s foodie neighborhood. Visit the “Non Catholic Cemetery” garden, a unique and magic place in the heart of Rome, see the Pyramid of Cestius, and the Rome’s former slaughterhouse “Mattatoio”. Then reach the “Testaccio food market” where the Chef of the best food stand, will show you how to prepare the “Supplì” (a fried ball of rice with tomato and mozzarella): the traditional most delicious street food among locals. You will enjoy it with a drink and different tasting of pizza for a real Roman experience with locals.

Overview

The walking tour starts with an awesome view of the “Piramide Cestia”, the only surviving Pyramid of ancient Rome: when Pharaos culture from Egypt had a major influence on habits of Romans upper class.The Testaccio walking tour then heads to the “Non Catholic Cemetery”, a garden in the heart of Rome: also called “the lost poets park“, silent, peaceful and inspiring, with its awesome monumental graves, that hosts the remains of British poets Shelley and Keats, of many painters, sculptors and artists, a number of scholars and several diplomats: a unique and magical place that offers shelter to a number of privileged cats as well.

The tours goes on around the “Monte dei Cocci“, a hill made of broken pieces of terracotta vases, takes a look at the unique industrial archeology complex of the “Mattatoio“, Rome’s former slaughterhouse, and then reaches the “Testaccio food market”.

Here the Chef of the best food stand, will show you how to prepare the “Supplì” (a fried ball of rice with tomato and mozzarella). You will enjoy it with a drink and different tasting of pizza for a real Roman experience with locals.
An experience with locals from meeting to farewell.

Highlights

• 2-hour walking tour of the Testaccio neighborhood and its gems
• Small group of up to 6 people
• Easily reach the meeting point by public transportation
• Meet & greet at Roma Lido Train Station
• See Caius Cestius Pyramid, Monte dei Cocci and the Mattatoio
• Visit Non-Catholic cemetery
• Testaccio neighborhood
• Testaccio Food Market
• Light lunch

Includes

• Tour as described
• Meet & Greet
• Walk to and through Testaccio
• Walk to and through the Non-Catholic-Cemetery
• Walk through the Testaccio Food Market
• Walk with local companion
• Learn how to prepare a “supplì”
• Different pizza tasting, 1 supplì and 1 drink

Excludes

• Hotel pick up & drop off
• Entrance donation to the non-Catholic Cemetery, NOT INCLUDED, to be paid in cash locally (5,00Euro)

Important to Know

• Minimum age to participate is 14 years of age. Customers under the age of 14 cannot participate in this experience.
• We recommend comfortable shoes.
• We recommend you bring sunscreen, sunglasses and a hat from April to October
• All the itineraries can be slightly modified due to: road work, monuments improvements, very bad weather conditions, or any external condition that could affect the experience’s full enjoyment.