{"id":4670,"date":"2021-01-21T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?page_id=4670"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:00:41","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/?page_id=4670","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I have to look for the very first sparkle of “A Friend in Rome”, I have to go back to my childhood.
\nI have always been passionate<\/strong> about traveling and Rome\u2019s history. When I was a child, I didn\u2019t play \u201cmom and daughter\u201d, but \u201cthe travel agency\u201d: my family members\u00a0 were forced to pretend to be customers to whom I organised incredible trips around the world.<\/p>\n

At the age of 20, I started working in tourism for an important tour operator as an incoming specialist<\/strong> for Italy. I learned a lot, but I suffered from a small \u201cdetail\u201d: I only met \u201cmy\u201d customers when something had gone wrong and they called me in anger. When everything went smoothly, most of the times, I didn\u2019t get to see their smiles. I started\u00a0 <\/span>to desire a job “front line”.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0 the meantime, on summer 2000, I organised my honeymoon to Mexico<\/strong>: I knew a couple of Mexican boys who were studying in Rome, and they put me in touch with their families. Those two days were illuminating: escorted by \u201clocals\u201d, we found ourselves making tortillas<\/em> at their place and eating churros<\/em> in a remote neighbourhood of Mexico City. I continued to work at the tour operator for several years, but the core idea of \u201cA Friend in Rome\u201d was there. When the opportunity to change arose (I had to wait several years to obtain my tourist guide licence: <\/strong>the exam is not always available and mine had a \u201cbiblical\u201d duration, 4 years!) I combined those first ideas, my knowledge of Rome, the emotions I experienced during my trips and everything took shape.<\/p>\n

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What makes “A Friend in Rome” special is that our tours are \u201creally\u201d personalised:<\/strong>\u00a0 I ask my guests what they expect from their holiday and I try to create a program suitable for each party and condition. Thanks to the ideas of our guests and to the\u00a0 creativity of my wonderful team of guides<\/a>, every year\u00a0 our list of proposals becomes more complete.\u00a0We also offer traditional tours, but we extend the range of action<\/strong> to the whole city: suburban areas, underground Rome, the neighbouring places that can be reached in one day. We move on foot, by public transport, by bike, by Vespa, by car… During these years, we enlarged our services<\/strong>: our guests can experience \u201ctypical Italian things\u201d, for example making pizza, a day in a farm or painting a real “fresco”.<\/p>\n

The other excellence everybody recognised after a tour with us is our friendly approach<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Our tours are only for people who already know each other: families, couples, groups of friends, in order to create a unique relationship with our new friends. We do not mix people who don\u2019t know each other because this forces to a standard proposal and limits the possibility of improvising,<\/strong> as it happens when friends are waiting for you in their city and are eager to let you know it, just like it happened to me in Mexico 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

Silvia Prosperi, founder of A Friend in Rome<\/em><\/p>\n

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If I have to look for the very first sparkle of “A Friend in Rome”, I have to go back to my childhood. I have always been passionate about traveling and Rome\u2019s history. When I was a child, I didn\u2019t play \u201cmom and daughter\u201d, but \u201cthe travel agency\u201d: my family members\u00a0 were forced to pretend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4670","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4670\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendinrome.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}