Haunted Rome Ghost Tour

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Highlights

  • A night Rome tour to avoid the heat and crowds and maximize your time
  • Learn about the city’s sights through the lens of its sinister history
  • Visit Campo de’ Fiori, Ponte Sant’Angelo, Via Giulia, and more
  • Explore with a small group for a more intimate (and spooky) experience

Full description

Explore the dark side of the Eternal City past with this haunted Rome walking tour by moonlight. Take in some of the city’s most famous squares, churches, and bridges after sunset as you listen to eerie tales of wandering ghosts, ghastly murders, and chilling executions involving infamous popes, emperors, and even artists. Discover a chapel decorated with human bones, a bridge long lined with corpses, and other horrifying sights.

Included / Excluded

  • Guided Tour of Rome's Haunted Sites

Itinerary

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

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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This beautiful square was a former party hub and is home to a scandalous legend involving a secret passageway and two popes.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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Along our route we’ll discover several madonelles or “little madonnas” and we’ll learn about how they worked to stop crime.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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The oldest bridge in Rome, Ponte Sisto has a gruesome past that involved tragic accidents, power struggles, theft and of course, suspicious deaths.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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Unlike other fountains in Rome, this one bears a warning to all those who dare drink from it.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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This 17th century church decorated in human remains from long ago reminds visitors that death is just around the corner.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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Now a haunted apartment block, this was the site of one of the worst prisons in Rome’s history.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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This Spanish church in the heart of Rome bears a saucy story worthy of a telenovela.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
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This former bar had an even earlier history as a beauty shop. Here you’ll learn about the story of when cosmetics can kill.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
10

This seemingly quaint house once belonged to Rome’s most famous executioner “Mastro Titta”.

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE
11

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

Duration: 10 minAdmission: NOT_APPLICABLE

Meeting point

Start Location

Campo de' Fiori, 00186 Rome, Roma RM, Italy

Cancellation policy

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the activity starts

Up to 24 hours before the beginning of the activity: full refund Less than 24 hours before the beginning of the activity or no-show: no refund

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Great evening tour of Rome

This was a great walking tour at night in Rome. We had our two teenage daughters with us and they enjoyed all the stories and seeing Rome at night.

valeriejQ2182PMMay 31, 2026TRIPADVISOR

This was a neat off the...

This was a neat off the beaten path tour that had a lot of cool stories. We got to see some areas we wouldn’t have otherwise seen and hear some neat stories. It was nice to be in the evening outside of the heat of the day.

Greg_HMay 31, 2026VIATOR

Rome @ night

Maham was amazing and the content was super interesting. Highly recommend!

petermK4393AXMay 31, 2026TRIPADVISOR

Excellent ghost tour

Maham was the best and super knowledgeable!

victorialevine11May 29, 2026TRIPADVISOR

Excellent walking tour

Our guide was great, and we explored Rome like never before. Streets and piazzas that you would normally walk right past, we stopped at to learn the vast and dark history of.

Gregory_BMay 28, 2026VIATOR