Your private driver-guide brings you into the heart of Rome at Piazza Venezia, dominated by the vast white marble Altare della Patria. From the comfort of the golf cart you'll take in the monument and the surrounding square, with a photo stop before continuing toward the ancient city.

The tour's centrepiece. Your driver-guide circles the Colosseum and stops for photographs of the amphitheatre from the best angles, explaining how it was built and what happened inside. This is an exterior visit; entrance tickets are not included.

Driving along Via dei Fori Imperiali, your guide points out the ruins of the Roman Forum below - the political and commercial heart of ancient Rome. Viewed from the cart as you pass; entrance tickets are not included.

You glide alongside the vast green hollow where Rome once held its chariot races. Your guide describes the scale of the ancient stadium and the crowds it drew, viewed from the cart as you pass.

Your guide points out the famous marble mask set into the portico of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, and tells the legend that it bites the hand of anyone who lies. Seen from the cart as you pass.

Often mistaken for a small Colosseum, this ancient theatre now has apartments built into its upper tiers. Your guide explains its history as you pass by in the cart.

Rome's most theatrical baroque square, built over an ancient stadium and centred on Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. Your guide points out the fountains and facades as you pass by.

A photo stop at the best-preserved building of ancient Rome, with its vast portico and the famous open oculus in the dome. Your guide explains its history from the square outside; entrance tickets are not included.

A stop at Rome's most famous fountain, where your guide finds the best spot for photographs and shares the tradition of tossing a coin over your shoulder to guarantee your return to Rome.

A stop at the sweeping staircase rising from Piazza di Spagna to the church of Trinita dei Monti, with the Barcaccia fountain below. Time for photographs before continuing north.

A vast neoclassical oval with an Egyptian obelisk at its centre and twin churches framing the road south. Your guide points out the layout as you pass through.

A photo stop by the Tiber at Hadrian's cylindrical mausoleum, later a papal fortress, with the statue-lined Ponte Sant'Angelo in front of it. Exterior views only; entrance tickets are not included.

The tour finishes at the Vatican, with Bernini's colonnade sweeping around St. Peter's Square and the basilica dome rising behind it. Time for final photographs; entrance tickets are not included.