I’m Luca Pietrosanti, Roman-born art historian, licensed guide and, above all, a storyteller.

 

Engaging with art and discovering the history of a place heightens your awareness and expands your world. It led me to destinations I might never have discovered on my own, connected me with people I wouldn't have expected to meet, and revealed that culture isn't confined to books—it's something that you need to experience—ideally with people who have the expertise and connections to make it uniquely yours.

 

After years teaching university students and guiding for museums, cultural institutions and big tour operators, I created Rome Art Stories around a simple belief: a great trip isn’t about seeing more. It's about experiencing more.

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Feel a connection to people past and present.

Notice the details others miss.
Gain a new perspective and create fond memories. 

Because facts alone rarely bring a place alive, but stories do.

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A pope’s vanity. An emperor’s propaganda. A crack in an ancient marble that changes how you read a masterpiece: the story brings history to life! 

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Together with a small team of fellow Romans, art historians and world-travelers, all licensed guides, I design unique experiences grounded in scholarship, but never heavy with it--we take history seriously, not ourselves!

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So yes, we explore monuments, archaeology and great works of art, but also neighborhood food, popular traditions, hidden corners, curious details, local habits...an experience of Rome that you simply can’t find in the guidebooks or large group tours.

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Experience the real Rome: iconic, brilliant, contradictory...and wonderfully alive. 

 

We have little patience for rushed sightseeing or tourism as box-checking.  What matters to us is simpler: that you experience Rome in a way that is uniquely yours, enjoy a tour that is refreshingly surprising, and bring a few good stories home to enjoy for years to come.

 

This is the story of the real Rome, shared with you by people who love it.