A private Trastevere tour with real Raphael frescoes at Villa Farnesina.
A private tour for your group only, through Trastevere, with genuine Raphael frescoes at Villa Farnesina.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real Raphael frescoes are viewed at Villa Farnesina, alongside Trastevere's genuine cobblestone streets.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in Trastevere.
Genuine Renaissance art at Villa Farnesina.
Genuine historic neighbourhood.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, through Trastevere, with genuine Raphael frescoes at Villa Farnesina. This is a private tour for your group only. Real Raphael frescoes are viewed at Villa Farnesina, alongside Trastevere's genuine cobblestone streets.
Villa Farnesina was built between 1506 and 1510 for Agostino Chigi, the enormously wealthy Sienese banker who financed the Pope, and designed by Baldassare Peruzzi as an open, airy summer retreat rather than a fortified city palace. Chigi's real ambition was to put the leading artists of the High Renaissance to work on its walls, commissioning Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giulio Romano, and Il Sodoma to decorate its loggias.
Raphael's own contribution, the Loggia of Galatea, is the villa's genuine centerpiece: the sea nymph rides a shell-drawn chariot surrounded by Tritons and sea creatures, one of the artist's most celebrated mythological scenes. Upstairs, Peruzzi's own trompe-l'oeil frescoes trick the eye into a painted loggia opening onto an invented view of the Roman countryside — a Renaissance special effect that still works on visitors five centuries later.
Outside the villa's walls, Trastevere unfolds as one of Rome's few neighborhoods that genuinely feels untouched by the modern city — ochre-colored buildings, ivy over crumbling plaster, and narrow lanes once home to boatmen and craftsmen working the Tiber long before the area became a dinner-and-wine destination. Walking its real streets after the Renaissance grandeur of the villa makes for a deliberate contrast: one stop built for a pope's banker, the other shaped by the people who actually lived across the river.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.