Italy · Walking Tours

Hidden Symbols of Rome: Private Masonic Tour

2 Hours Round trip from Rome Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Private 2-hour walking tour focused on Rome’s hidden Masonic symbolism
  • 02 Explore key sites including Capitoline Hill, Piazza Venezia, Campo de’ Fiori, and Piazza Navona
  • 03 Learn about esoteric symbols woven into monuments, squares, and historic buildings
  • 04 Discover stories connected to Victor Emmanuel II and the unification of Italy
  • 05 Visit Piazza del Gesu and hear about the founding of the “Serenissima”
  • 06 See the monument to Giordano Bruno in Campo de’ Fiori
  • 07 Uncover symbolic details in Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers

Discover a lesser-known side of the Eternal City on this private walking tour through Rome’s esoteric and Masonic symbols. Following the traces of hidden meanings woven into squares, monuments, and historic buildings, you’ll explore stories of power, philosophy, free thought, and symbolism in the heart of the city.

Over two hours, walk through landmarks including Capitoline Hill, Piazza Venezia, Campo de’ Fiori, and Piazza Navona as your guide reveals the symbols, legends, and historical connections linked to Rome’s Masonic heritage. This experience is ideal for curious travellers interested in hidden history, culture, and storytelling beyond the usual city tour.

Discover a lesser-known side of the Eternal City on this private walking tour through Rome’s esoteric and Masonic symbols.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access Yes
City Rome
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

Capitole Hill

Venice square (Masonic Cathedral)

Vittoriano (Venice Sqaure) , an imposing building, also called the Altar Nation, was designed as a monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, the ruler who executed the decades-long Freemasonry dream of a United Italia. The architect Sacconi designed the project of this grandiose complex because he was inspired by the exponents of the "second religion", the powerful Freemasonry of Rome. The unification of Italy with its symbols made the Vittoriano complex the heart within the heart of Rome. On its walls, there are clearly visible symbols of "Freemasons" such as palm trees as a symbol of victory, laurel as a symbol of peace, oak as a symbol of strength and power, a woman who with her left hand catches a snake as a symbol of secret knowledge.

Piazza del Gesu “Serenissima”

Our adventure through mystical Rome takes us further to Piazza del Gesu, where the Great Lodge of Italy - the “Serenissima” was officially founded. It represents a Masonic organization of an ancient Scottish order that refused the obedience to the radical Grand Master of the former Great Lineage. This location is also called the "pupal of the world" a kind of portal of both the physical and spiritual world.

Palazzo Justiniani

In the next stage of getting to know esoteric Rome, we will get acquainted with the turbulent history of Palazzo Justiniani, Tempio Maggiore Antico, also called the "Green Vatican". In the beginning of the nineteenth century, it caught an eye of the Lavy of the Grand Orient of Italia...Designed as a residence, it also had it is "Grand Galerie" with a collection of works of art from antiquity to baroque, and thus became one of the "Grand Tour" of the young aristocracy of Europe. Inside the palace are also painted representations of an especially important Masonry, Solomon's construction of the Temple in Jerusalem and Slomon's trial...

Piazza Campo Dei Fiori

On our route, we come to the heart of esotericism, the search for essence, at Piazza Campo Dei Fiori. Here we will meet the spirit of the eternal persuite for truth and the struggle for free thought, the monument to Giordano Bruno. To get closer to this truth, we must go back a few centuries, in the time of Inquisition, theatrical burning of the philosopher and freethinker Giordano Bruno, the essential conflict between red doctrine and science. It is interesting that the Catholic Church, until the middle of the last century, in various ways advocated the removal of this monument, but the Masonic influence for which Giordano Bruno became a symbol and role model, managed to preserve it from removal...

Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona hides within itself the very top of Masonic symbology, Element Water.

Transformed into the magic fountain of Four Revers, created by Bernini's hand. In secret circles, this "Last Altar of Science" is dominated by an obelisk, an Egyptian solar symbol at the top of which is located pigeon as symbols of the angels of peace. It symbolizes the being of light that is a mediator between this world and the Universe. Bernini also wanted to represent the four rivers as four continents which secretly represents the Masonic four words of life in Paradise.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Rome 1 city · 2 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • guided tour
  • All Fees and Taxes

What's Not Included

  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • tips

Know before you go

  • WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Please be at the meeting point 15 min before tour starts. Our guide will wait for You in front of the entrance of the Vittoriano Monument.

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Rome, IT
Tour start
Rome, IT
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in Rome.

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