Rome Angels & Demons Tour | Illuminati Path Small Group

Rome, Italy

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5+ bookings last month.

3 hours (approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Overview

For a twist on the typical city tour, immerse yourself in the Rome of "Angels and Demons," Dan Brown’s bestselling novel. Inspired by the book, this literary sightseeing adventure takes you on a treasure hunt through the Eternal City. As you go, see top Rome attractions like the Pantheon, St. Peter’s Basilica, and Castel Sant’Angelo. Then, head off the tourist trail to discover historic landmarks you'd otherwise overlook.

Visit the locations featured in Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" novel
Discover sights and stories you'd miss if traveling alone
A unique way to sightsee in Rome, even if you didn't read the book
Explore with a small group for a relaxed pace and personal attention

What's Included

Local guide
Small group limited to a maximum of 14 people

Pickup and dropoff
Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Via Venti Settembre, 17, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
The guide will wait for you just in front of the church.

End point

Saint Peter’s Basilica
Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

Itinerary

Santa Maria della Vittoria

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Castel Sant'Angelo (Pass By)

Pantheon (Pass By)

Chiesa di Santa Maria del Popolo

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

St. Peter's Basilica

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed

Near public transportation
Most travelers can participate
It is recommended to wear comfortable shoes
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.2

based on 63 reviews

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Our guide was great. She...

Jennifer_A, Nov 2025

Our guide was great. She was knowledgeable and flexible, catering the tour to our needs and interests. We had a great time and I would highly recommend her!

Response from Host, Nov 2025

Thank you for your review, we're happy you enjoyed the tour!

Excellent.

Lisa_U, Jul 2025

Out travel guide Irene was wonderful. She was so knowledgable and nice. Had a wonderful day with her.

Response from Host, Jul 2025

Thank you for your review, we will be sure to tell Irene! Glad you enjoyed your day!

Fun and informative great tour

L_C, Sep 2024

What a great tour and experience! We had an excellent time and gained great insight and knowledge. Our tour guide Felice was so friendly and knowledgeable. Highly recommend this tour.

Response from Host, Sep 2024

Thank you for your review, we will be sure to tell Felice!

Excellent tour guide (Luisa)

Gabriela_M, Jul 2024

Luisa was an excellent tour guide. She let us know that one of the churches wouldn’t be available for the tour but would lead us to another one that had interesting information to share. Luisa was also very considerate of the two little kids in the group.

Response from Host, Jul 2024

Thank you for your nice review, we will be sure to tell Luisa and hope to see you again in Itay!

Fantastic and informative

Richard_M, Jun 2024

All of the places that were in the movie and mentioned in the novel. Federico was very knowledgeable about so much. He was cognizant of the heat and my wife's inability to keep up due to the heat. I would give this 5 stars buy most of the fountains were shutoff and undergoing repairs so we had to view them through a hole in the fence and they were inoperable.

Response from Host, Jun 2024

Thank you for your review, we will be sure to tell Federico about it. We are sorry about the repairs happening on the fountains, of course we unfortunately cannot predict when the city decides to close off some locations for maintenance.

Our guide was...

Beverly_L, May 2024

Our guide was outstanding. He let us decide the pace and length-we were really tired because we flew in from the US and then did the tour. Our guide helped us get a taxi to go to our hotel. Everything was smooth. We loved him!

Response from Host, May 2024

Thank you for your nice review, we will be sure to tell the tour guide!

Ángela and demons

Jorge_Q, Apr 2024

Everything was ok, unfortunately 2 importante point was closed, Santa María de la Vitoria and chinesa del popolo, so we couldn’t complete the visit

All Angels, no demons!

Anthony_R, Nov 2023

Our tour guide was AMAZING! She was so thorough, easy to understand, and answered any questions we had. There is a good amount of walking, but the sites make it totally worth it. I highly recommend and would do this again!

Response from Host, Feb 2024

Thank you for your review! We will be sure to tell the tour guide, and we hope to see you again in Italy!

Lot of fun walking through Rome with Dan Brown

Mark_O, Aug 2023

The story about Mr Tikka and never to talk bad about the Pope. The story of Romes most expensive escort and the face of Mary.

Bad Experience

Keith_B, Jul 2023

We arrived early for our tour and the guide never showed up. Now fighting for a refund. Very disappointed in this tour operation

Fantastic

Deanna_W, Apr 2023

Luisa was fantastic! Knowledgeable about the locations and a great story teller. It ended up just being my husband and me on the tour, and it was such a special experience!

Entertaining and Educational

Douglas_B, Nov 2022

The guide was very knowledgeable and entertaining. The only thing was she walked way to fast and it was difficult to keep up.

Cool experience!

Debbie_D, Jun 2022

So cool seeing the places from the book in real life! Our guide was very knowledgeable and kind, but do be prepared for a lot of walking.

Interesting tour.

amybpomeroy, Feb 2020

The tour was extremely informative. The guide, Pavlios (sp?), picked us up at our hotel and we walked all around Rome. He showed us all the connections to the movie, Angels and Demons and explained the history and the significance. Not only did he describe the movie and the scenes but he gave us information of other points of interest in Rome. Thank you.

Response from Host, Feb 2020

Thank you for the 5stars review! Our guide is happy to receive such a positive feedback and we’re glad you enjoyed the Angels and Demons tour, learning something new about the movie/book and also about Rome.

Private tour Angels and Demons

Marilyn_M, Aug 2019

The tour was excellent and it really was a private tour as me and my son were the only customers. It included all the Dan Brown locations in the book of that name, though not entrance into the Castel Sant Angelo which had it's own tour and fee. The guide was very good and she included much more information that expected. I would definitely recommend it.

Response from Host, Aug 2019

We really appreciate that you enjoy our tour! We are very proud of it.

Exhausting, disappointing

Mary_W, Jun 2019

Our group of 9 people aged 10 to 69 were the only people on this tour (we were the whole group). We were told to walk 2 miles to the first waypoint, the agency would *NOT* provide the bus (but, bus pickup and dropoff was advertised!). One of our group chose not to walk 2 miles just to start the tour, another dropped out about 1/3 of the way feeling sick. The Angels and Demons tour we took 3 years ago was *MUCH BETTER.,* this one failed miserably.

Response from Host, Jun 2019

We are very sorry for your review. The Angels and Demons is a very popular tour and always receives fantastic reviews. Unfortunately this time we were not able to make you happy but generally when you book a three-hour walking tour of course you should consider that surely there will be some walking involved. Our guide has come to pick you up in your hotel at the scheduled time, while I'm sorry to contradict you but the drop off is not included in this product.

This was a pretty weak, disorganized...

Frank Q, Oct 2018

This was a pretty weak, disorganized tour. Our tour guide whose name I can't remember was pretty checked out. It almost felt like he was doing this tour against his will. Don't get me wrong: He knew a lot about the subject matter not the book/movie so much, but definitely about the history. He was just a real bummer to be around for three hours. As someone else mentioned, this tour involves a LOT of walking...and you don't necessarily follow the book/movie as it occurred. Given the logistics of it all and how far apart the locations are spread out, I can understand why the tour is given this way. However, as someone else who reviewed this tour mentioned, one of the sites that we were supposed to visit was temporarily closed. So, we went there, saw that it was closed, drove to one of the other locations, then drove back to the closed location. It makes for a lot of downtime in between, and a lot of unnecessary driving/walking. And, really, it would have been great if he'd checked out the sites beforehand to make sure that they'd be open at the time that we'd be visiting them. I honestly can't recommend this tour. You'd really be better off visiting the sites on your own, at your own pace...maybe over the span of a couple of days.

Our Guide Vittoria was fantastic! Very...

Heather D, Sep 2018

Our Guide Vittoria was fantastic! Very accommodating. It was just my group and some had to walk slower than others. She did a great job making sure we were always together. She was very soft spoken so I would recommend a head set for the group. It was hard to hear her when we were walking. This was FOR SURE a walking tour. Pretty much NON-STOP walking for 3.5-4 hours so just me ready for that! Thank you for a great tour!

Chiara was absolutely amazing - we...

KABIR_M, Jun 2018

Chiara was absolutely amazing - we felt like we were with a friend and not a generic tour. Good information about all the sites. Highly recommend.

Fantastic tour!! The guide was...

Amylee_E, May 2018

Fantastic tour!! The guide was obviously a fan of the book and movie and we were lucky enough to have a private tour as no one else had booked that time/day

This tour was AMAZING! We set up...

Leanne M, Mar 2018

This tour was AMAZING! We set up this tour for the morning time on the day we flew out from Rome. Flaminia was our tour guide and is the best we have ever had! We have taken several day tours around the world and this was the most fun we have had. It didn’t feel like a tour but like we were family!

Tour guides were knowledgeable, but...

Bernard K, Mar 2018

Tour guides were knowledgeable, but this should have NEVER been a walking tour for people our age, and there is no way it should have been offered on a Sunday, when churches are closed for mass! Advertise it correctly as a WALKING tour! Don't offer it on a SUNDAY! Also, you should have some sort of diagram for the participants on how it all fits together. And, the timeline was skipped as part of the tour. We learned afterwards from a later guide that it the timeline was near our first stop.

It was cool to see the sites we saw...

Melissa_H, Feb 2018

It was cool to see the sites we saw in the movie. My fiancé read the books so he really enjoyed this tour. we were picked up from our hotel but not dropped back off. Our tour was changed to the late afternoon so we had to figure out how to get back to our hotel from the Vatican at night.

I can't even begin to tell you how...

Sherry_A, Oct 2017

I can't even begin to tell you how bad this tour was. Do not waste your time or money! First, I had this tour scheduled for Friday morning at 9:30 am. I was contacted on Wednesday afternoon to reschedule for Thursday morning, which was impossible since we did not arrive until Thursday at noon. Then on Thursday, I was contacted if we could reschedule for Saturday morning, which we could not. We had another tour already scheduled for Saturday morning. We only had a short time in Rome and I had specifically scheduled out each tour for maximum time. We were told that Friday was not possible, so therefore we were left with only Saturday afternoon for the tour, since we were leaving on Sunday. We felt like we didn't have a choice at that point and we had one person in a group that is a huge Dan Brown fan, so we wanted to do the tour. We were picked up at 3 pm at our apartment on Saturday afternoon in a van. We had to go pick up another group of 4 and then they split us up into two vans, 4 in each. The van we were in had a terrible smoke odor. The first church we went to was holding a wedding and we could not enter, so we got back in the van, then the second church we went to was also holding a wedding and we could not enter the church. My husband at this point said are we on the 4 weddings and a funeral tour. HA! So for the first hour and a half, we were in a van in traffic going place to place that we could not even enter. When we finally went to St. Peter's square, my husband and I just left the tour. I was so over it. My aunt and uncle, who is a huge Dan Brown fan, continued on the tour, until it got to the point that they still had not seen everything scheduled for the tour by 6:30 pm and asked to be taken back to the apartment. It was a huge disappointment! I feel like if they had left our tour at 9:30 am on Friday morning like originally scheduled then we would not have run into all the weddings and could have possibly had a better tour.

This was THE best tour i've ever...

Tammy C, Aug 2017

This was THE best tour i've ever been on. Having never been to Italy and a huge fan of Angels and Demons, I came across this tour with Viator. I read through the reviews and seeing such a positive rating, I decided to give it a try. WOW! It was over 100F that day and although our hotel was outside of the pickup zone, they sent a car to get us. They also drove us to three of the points of our tour to keep us from melting, which made it so much more enjoyable. I do not think we could have survived walking for 4 hours in that kind of heat. Our guide, Victoria, was not only knowledgable about the movie but extremely enthusiastic about sharing all of the secrets with us. Her ability to make it an interactive tour where we had to find the angels and identify the elements at each destination made it so much fun. It became a game of sorts and a who can come up with the answer first!. Her knowledge of Rome and the extra history bits she shared along the tour are pieces of knowledge we never would have gained doing it on our own. Absolutly LOVED this tour and would ABSOLUTELY recommend it to anyone coming to Rome. Thank you Victoria for an amazing experience I will never ever forget!

My daughter and I went on this tour...

Charles N. S, Aug 2017

My daughter and I went on this tour. We were met by our guide, Angelica and a driver at our hotel. They took us to the Pantheon and we then began our tour. It was amazing. There was a good bit of walking, but the time went by so fast as we attempted to find the clues. Along the way we learned many things about Rome that we would not have otherwise known. Our guide was friendly, courteous, energetic and fun. This was my third trip to Rome and I believe I learned more about Rome.....and of course, Angels and Demons..... than I had learned in my earlier trips.. A very educational, fun and pleasant day with a very informative tour guide. I was impressed and pleased. I recommend this tour!

One of the best tours we were on...

dbeers, Aug 2017

One of the best tours we were on! The guide was amazing! She was so full of energy and since she studied the history in college, she was very knowledgeable!! Highly recommended!

This was a good tour, our guide did...

Michelle, Jul 2017

This was a good tour, our guide did a great job. However, it ended up being a lot of walking and it was very hot that day. Plus, the rest of my family had not read the book, so they did not get as much out of it as I did.

We had an excellent guide but Sunday...

sweetvaiolette, Jul 2017

We had an excellent guide but Sunday is not a good day. Masses at several churches delayed out viewing the several sites. Get a tour leader that has a microphone and you earphones to hear guide. Very crowded Rome with gypsy pickpockets making site seers too defensive to truly appreciate tour. A great deal of walking on uneven pavement with alot of up and down. Be prepared to exercise.

Was expecting some walking but did...

Joanne F, Jun 2017

Was expecting some walking but did not expect to walk over 10kms in 4 hours. Felt the term "wear comfortable shoes" should be more like "only for the fit ". Our tour guide got lost several times adding significant walking. No hotel drop off provided. Consider carefully.