Angels & Demons tour in Rome - photos & itinerary
The last time we blogged about Rome we brought you an interview from the author of the ‘Angels & Demons’ locations travel guide to Rome. This week we are showing you photos from Viator’s Angels & Demons Half-Day Tour of Rome — one of several tours in the city — but one in which “Angels & Demons” director Ron Howard and actor Tom Hanks have both taken.
The tour departs near the church Santa Maria del Popolo in Piazza del Popolo at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It lasts four hours and costs $75.54 per person. The tour is limited to 25 people. Guests travel by an air-conditioned coach with stops at St Peter’s Square, St. Maria della Vittoria Church, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant’ Angelo and Church of Illumination to glimpse the secret passage connecting the Vatican to the Castel Sant’ Angelo. The tour’s guide (beyond reading from Dan Brown’s novel on one of the tour stops) takes you on a tour of Rome while discussing the book and movie and helping you decode the secret messages of the Illuminati.
Check out the audio slideshow on the Viator blog.
Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, the first stop on the Angels & Demons tour and a key part of the novel.
Bernini’s “Ecstasy of Saint Theresa” which is at the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.
This is the “West Wind” marker in St. Peter’s Square which is relevant to the storyline.
Saint Michael; the statue is by the Flemish sculptor Peter Anton von Verschaffelt.
Viator’s Angels & Demons tour guide explaining how the statue is one of the ‘clues’ we were following from Dan Brown’s novel.
View from From Castel Sant’Angelo, a stop on Viator’s Angels & Demon’s half-day tour
– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger
[Photos: Viator]
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June 15th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
These tours seem fun and interesting that is why I wanted to do them, but they were too expensive. I found a free Angels and Demons tour on iKangaroo.com that I got off iTunes. These podcasts cover all the sites in the book and do a pretty good job of telling the story and the history of the sites with a lot pictures. $70.00 was too much for me plus I got to use my iPodTouch in Rome- make sure you charge before you go.