Secret Gardens Italy hosts historical garden tours of Rome, Lazio and Umbria. These gardens are histories of place, as well as of cultivated nature, some, over thousands of years. We include public and private spaces, indoors and out, which have significant botanical and/or environmental interest, in addition to social or historical importance. Most have a strong relationship to Rome’s 3,000 years of history.
We offer seasonally appropriate tour programs each month, and multiple day programs can be customized. Private tours are also available to suit individual tastes and requirements. Care is taken to balance each day’s tour with historical and aesthetic consideration and most tours are appropriate for even the first-time visitor to Italy. Many tours are handicapped accessible and vegetarian choices are always available at all served meals.
Secret Gardens Italy tours are adaptable for adventure and for cruise travelers, horticultural societies and garden clubs, and private groups interested in the urban landscape, historic homes, spiritual communities, history or natural phenomena. We try to design visits primarily based on invitation from a host or docent, and these visits are limited for a small number of guests.
We are specialists in gardens, but we can help arrange your precious vacation time in Rome, so you have “leisure time” during your vacation to visit the gardens. We work with inbound tour operators for Rome’s Big Ten: the Pantheon, Colosseum, the Vatican City and Sistine Chapel, the Forums, the Spanish Steps, the ancient Appian Way, Piazza Navona, Campo di Fiori, Villa Borghese.
Let us show you the reason why those that could, made their home here!
