🇮🇹 Rome with kids is a fairy tale that is actually alive
Welcome to the Eternal City, where the stones know how to tell stories, the statues come alive in your imagination and every turn hides a secret.
Rome with kids is more than the Colosseum and pizza. It is a remarkable journey across the centuries, where children become the heroes of quests, explorers of antiquity and real Romans — even if only for a day.
We have gathered the best family tours, playful routes and workshops here so that your holiday is not only interesting but easy. Everything is pitched to the children's age, with the best guides, care and love.
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Want to explore the historic centre of Rome on your own, but in a way that genuinely holds the children's attention?
LooksArt turns a walk through ancient Rome into an interactive family adventure. The app leads you along the route, tells short stories, asks questions and points out details most visitors walk straight past.
You will stand on the spot where Julius Caesar was killed, see the world's first shopping centre, find out why cats guard the ancient ruins, and discover the Eternal City's most remarkable stories.
They look for clues, solve riddles and lead the family onwards.
And the grown-ups can finally watch, follow and live the history alongside them.
Where inventions come to life and children become the apprentices of a genius
- an interactive quest in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum
- machines you are allowed to touch and start
- riddles, ciphers and the great master's inventions
Leonardo da Vinci's workshop is not an ordinary museum. Here everything can be touched, started, tested and explored. Cogs turn, mechanisms work and Leonardo's inventions can be seen in action. The quest turns a museum visit into a real adventure: children become apprentices to the great inventor. They will decode his mirror writing, test his engineering ideas and find out how a man of the 15th century managed to imagine things that became real only centuries later.
Rome without dull dates — the city through the eyes of the people who lived in it
- an interactive quest through the centre of ancient Rome
- stories about the everyday life of Romans
- tasks, riddles and facts you will not expect
This quest is a journey into the real life of ancient Rome. We walk one of the city's oldest routes — from the Circus Maximus to the Capitoline Hill, where the life of an enormous empire once churned. But instead of stories about wars and emperors we learn something else: how ordinary Romans lived. How they ate, studied, entertained themselves, haggled in the markets, went to school, used the public toilets and even… practised magic. Along the way the children complete tasks, measure distances in “Roman paces”, hold an ancient coin in their hands and try being residents of the ancient city. This is not simply a tour — it is a hands-on investigation of ancient Rome.
Somewhere beneath the vaults of St Peter's Basilica, a mythical creature has made itself at home. The cardinals are baffled, the walls are full of secrets and time is running short. We set out on a hunt — to send the mysterious guest back to its own world before it is too late.
This is not simply a tour: it is an adventure where legends come alive and history becomes a game.
Would you like your children to fall for history and get interested in art?
Worried the teenagers will be bored and the younger ones will tire quickly? We know how to make it work for everyone.
- For the children — a quest game with maps, riddles and creative tasks
- For teenagers — a fast-moving route and facts they will not expect
- For parents — a rich overview tour with none of the dull dates
Want your children to fall for history and get interested in art? Worried the teenager will be bored and the youngest will tire quickly? We know how to make it work for everyone.
- For children — a quest game with maps, riddles and creative tasks
- For teenagers — a fast-moving route and facts that will genuinely surprise them
- For parents — a rich overview tour with none of the dull dates
Explore the Colosseum at your own pace: short stories, riddles, missions and a proper finale with gelato.
Want to explore the Colosseum on your own, but in a way that genuinely holds the children's attention?
LooksArt turns a visit to the Colosseum into an interactive family adventure. The app leads you along the route, tells short stories, asks questions and points out details most visitors walk straight past.
You will learn how gladiators lived, how the machinery beneath the arena worked and what secrets its corridors still keep.
Children do not just listen.
They look for clues, solve riddles and lead the family onwards.
And the grown-ups can finally watch, follow and live the history alongside them.
Ancient Rome is on the brink of disaster, and only your child can save it. They become a time-travelling secret agent sent into the distant past to uncover every secret of ancient Rome. Their mission: to stop a mad emperor by solving all his riddles and puzzles, rescue the gladiators and rewrite history itself.
It is an absorbing adventure in which the past comes alive through play, logic puzzles and genuinely surprising discoveries.
Explore the Vatican Museums at your own pace: short stories, riddles, missions and a proper finale with gelato.
Want to explore the Vatican Museums on your own, but in a way that genuinely holds the children's attention?
LooksArt turns a visit to the Vatican into an interactive family adventure. The app leads you along the route, tells short stories, asks questions and helps you notice details most visitors walk straight past.
You will learn what secrets the Sistine Chapel keeps, why some rooms of the Vatican were closed for hundreds of years, and what remarkable stories hide behind its famous works of art.
And the grown-ups can finally watch, follow and live the history alongside them.
The Vatican Museums are a vast complex of 1,400 rooms and more than 70,000 works. They hold the world's largest collection of ancient sculpture, and the Sistine Chapel and Raphael Rooms draw millions of visitors every year.
Worried an ordinary tour will bore the children? We have turned meeting the Vatican into an absorbing quest adventure.
What does the real Italy hide?
Not only pizza, spaghetti and the Colosseum. This is a world where:
- Brilliant inventions sit beside ancient myths
- Masterpieces of art spark new discoveries
- Supercars race along the roads of history
Italy is not simply a country but an absorbing scientific experiment — and you are about to become its lead researchers.
Want Rome to open up from an unexpected, almost mystical side? Ready to leave the tourist trails for the places where legends, secrets and cryptic symbols live?
The “Secrets of Rome” quest is a walk at its own particular rhythm — with stories, intrigue and clues that make you look at the city differently.
- For teenagers and adults it is an intellectual adventure in which you do not just listen, you act
- As a celebration it makes an excellent birthday, hen party, outing with friends or even a date
- And for anyone who has “already seen everything” in Rome, it is a chance to be surprised again
This is not an ordinary tour but a real adventure, with the ancient city as the playing board. You have stumbled on a mysterious game called Jumanji, and now it leads you along Rome's secret paths, filling the way with riddles, legends and discoveries you did not expect.
The Borghese Gallery is one of the most valuable art museums in the world, holding masterpieces by Bernini, Caravaggio, Raphael and other great masters. But how do you get a child interested in art rather than bored among old canvases and marble statues?
We have an answer: we turned the gallery tour into an interactive game. Imagine you have landed inside the Instagram of Scipione Borghese — a powerful cardinal and connoisseur who collected paintings and sculptures the way today's bloggers collect likes. Together we will uncover the secrets of his remarkable collection.
This workshop is the perfect way to dive into Italian cooking and learn to make real Roman pizza under the guidance of a professional pizzaiolo.
You will master the traditional recipe, pick up every kitchen secret along the way, and make Italy's most famous dessert — tiramisu.
This workshop is a proper immersion in Italian dolce vita. Tiramisu is not just a dessert but one of Italy's culinary symbols — its name literally means “lift me up”, that is, “make me happy”. At its heart are the softest mascarpone cream, savoiardi biscuits, coffee and cocoa. And fresh pasta made by hand is the taste of tradition and of a sunny mood.
Feel part of the Eternal City — make your own Roman mosaic, the way the masters did it 2,000 years ago.
You will find yourself in a real art studio where, with a hammer, tesserae, natural stone and the ancient direct method, you will assemble a mosaic of your own — on a classical subject or one that means something to you.
You will learn what smalto is, how to recognise the genuine Roman style, and how the ancient masters achieved such precision.
Gelato is Italy's famous dessert — silky in texture and rich in flavour. Unlike ordinary ice cream it has less sugar and fat and is made only from natural ingredients, which makes it both tastier and lighter.
At our workshop you will not only learn the secrets of real gelato — you will make it with your own hands.
Gladiator school in Rome is a rare chance to step into the role — and the tunic — of a real gladiator.
Here your children will not only hear the stories of antiquity's most famous fighters: they will find themselves in a genuine training camp and go through a crash course for gladiators. It is an adventure that delights boys and girls alike — and most of all (spoiler!) the dads.
