Hidden Rome: Water, Power & Ancient Secrets Walking Tour｜Italy

Begin your journey at the Theatre of Marcellus, where Emperor Augustus transformed entertainment into a powerful instrument of political influence. As you stroll through the elegant Portico of Octavia, discover how architecture, religion and public life were carefully intertwined to celebrate the glory of Imperial Rome.

Continue to Largo Argentina, home to some of Rome's oldest temples, where you'll step back into the final days of the Roman Republic and relive the dramatic events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Admire the remains of the Temple of Hadrian, where the enduring legacy of an emperor lives on through monumental architecture, embodying the confidence, stability and power of Imperial Rome.

End your experience beneath La Rinascente, where the ancient Aqua Virgo Aqueduct still flows after more than 2,000 years. This extraordinary engineering masterpiece supplied baths, fountains, gardens and entire neighbourhoods, revealing that Rome's greatest strength lay not only in its magnificent monuments, but also in the hidden network of water that sustained life throughout the Eternal City.