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My family, the Pellegrini Family, deal on regular basis with several Travel Agents and, some of those are also members of the famous Virtuoso Agency. Besides being Official Rome Guides, other than the Vatican City State, my family and I are members of FEG (European Federation of Guides), SNGT (National Associations of Italian Tourist Guide) and WFTGA, (World Federation of Tourist Guides Associations).

My company, Rome Travels s.r.l., operates in Italy since many years to offer the services related to the tourism in Italy: Private Tours, Incentive Tours, Hotel Reservation, Group Tours, Special events, Shore Excursions, Private Transportation. The cities where we operate are: Rome, Tuscany (for Florence, Siena and all the Tuscany Tour/Chianti Tour), Naples (Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capri, Ischia), Sicily (Taormina) and, of course, Venice.

Personally, I am one of the 62 official and licensed Tour Guides of the Vatican City State out of over 1.100 of Rome official tour guides. This does not mean that the other Guides of Rome cannot explain inside the Vatican. It simply means that I was selected after a Master in History of Arts and Theology at and in the Vatican & final written and oral exams operated by the Direction of the Vatican Museums to cooperate on regular basis with them in case they have an official visit of a foreigner delegation, ambassador(s), or special groups and VIP tours at the Vatican. Needless to say, this is a further guarantee of quality/certified services that we give you.

After 15 years of the best Catholic School in Rome ("Assunzione di Maria"), I graduated with the maximum of votes Cum Laude (110 e Lode/110) at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza" in 1994 - Faculty of Political Sciences - International Relations. Then, I attended the course of Art History at the Lateran Pontifical University of Rome, Vatican City and, successfully, a course in Theology and Art History once I have been selected to become an Official Tourist Guide of The Vatican City State. I am not saying that The Vatican is my home, but it's kind of like.

Dear Internet User, there are many, too many web sites who just offer you to skip the lines at the Vatican with a guided tour too. But they use unlicensed guides. Dear internet visitor and friend, the 99% of the visitors don't know that the in the guided tours whoever is the tourist guide, he/she must have the license to operate (with the Blue Badge). And these companies give fake guides who are not certified, qualified and who did not surpassed any exams and don't pay taxes ! They are simply cheating the tourists. They just learn by heart many tours, surely they may be entertaining with their group and private people but have no idea of what the profession of being a guide is. If you are interested, just send us an e-mail and we will providing you all their web sites.

On the other hand, visitors do not know we have to have a special badge - like in UK, the so called " Blue Badge " - to identify who is a true and licensed guide - and pay taxes - and who is not. People don't know this unfortunately and they pay them as well. That's why I am here : to explain the great benefits and advantages to be guided by someone who passed lots of exams and who guided hundreds and hundreds of visitors through the Vatican City State and the Rome City.

LAST: dear Internet Guest, you are not supposed to know the world of guides in Rome. We do. We also know that it is hard to choose a Rome and a Vatican Tour Guide, other than many other services, when there are so many on the Internet and, we know, many that are less than perfect and perhaps outright hoaxes and not certified. But we want to say that we definitely wait for you, your family and friends to host you in our best way, with fun, joy, smiles and ourselves. Ciao!


Cristiano Pellegrini
Rome Tour Guide