Private Rome Walking Tour: Explore Rome's Haunted Past After Dark

We begin in Campo de' Fiori, one of Rome's most famous piazza's. Nowadays its known for lively bars and restaurants but it was once a site of executions making it the perfect place to start our spooky adventure!

This beautiful square has seen many lavish parties by the city’s elite. But with fortune comes scandal… and secrets.

See several madonelles or “little madonnas” along our route and we’ll learn about their former function as crime-stopping statues.

Being the oldest bridge in Rome, Ponte Sisto has a lot of history including a gruesome past. Hear about the tragic accidents, power struggles, theft and of course, suspicious deaths surrounding this bridge.

Drinking from fountains in Rome is illegal but drinking from this one is deadly.

This 17th century church is decorated in human remains and serves as a reminder to visitors that death is closer than we think.

There’s a reason that this apartment block is haunted and that’s because it was the site of one of the worst prisons in Italy’s history.

This Spanish church has a scandalous story worthy of a “telenovela”.

This former beauty shop tells us the story of when cosmetics can kill.

On the surface it’s just a normal house, but it was once the childhood home of Rome’s most infamous executioner.

The bridge that was used to expose the bodies of the executed as a warning to sinners is now surrounded by statues of angels. Hear the story of the Cenci family and how they met a bloody end.