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Explore the fountains and squares of Baroque and Renaissance Rome on a walking tour of two hours leading to some of the most famous places of the Eternal City. Admire the Trevi Fountain, see the ancient site of the Stadium of Domitian, and more.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Roma, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Explore the fountains and squares of Baroque and Renaissance Rome on a walking tour of two hours leading to some of the most famous places of the Eternal City. Admire the Trevi Fountain, see the ancient site of the Stadium of Domitian, and more.
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Stop At: Piazza Navona, 00186 Rome Italy
Navona Square has been defined during the fifteenth century, the Baroque-style Piazza Navona is one of the most charming and popular squares in Rome.
The square is built on the former ‘’Stadium of Domitian’’, a horseshoe-shaped arena for foot races built in the 1st century AD. In the square there are three magnificent fountains – Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, the Fontana del Moro, and the Fontana del Nettuno.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Piazza Navona, 00186 Rome Italy
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as did the church of Sant’Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor.
The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, a copy of an Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a dove with an olive twig. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Río de la Plata representing the Americas.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Piazza di Campo de’ Fiori, 00186 Rome Italy
The Campo dei Fiori in the morning it’s a bustling marketplace, that transforms into a nightlife centre in the evening, all amid a beautiful setting steeped with history. Piazza Campo dei Fiori was the place where executions were carried out.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Statua di Giordano Bruno, Campo de’ Fiori, Rome Italy
Piazza Campo dei Fiori was the place where executions were carried out. The statue in the centre of the piazza commemorates Giordano Bruno, it was created in 1888 and placed in the centre of the piazza at the exact location of his execution.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Stadio di Domiziano – Navona Square Underground, Via di Tor Sanguigna 3 Piazza Navona, 00186 Rome Italy
The Stadium of Domitian, also known as the Circus Agonalis, was located to the north of the Campus Martius in Rome.
The Stadium was used almost entirely for athletic contests.
The Piazza Navona sits over the interior arena of the Stadium. The sweep of buildings that embrace the Piazza incorporates the Stadium’s original lower arcades.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Pantheon, Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Rome Italy
The Pantheon is without any doubt one of the best preserved ancient monuments in Rome. It is a wonderful example of the reutilization from a Christian perspective of a sacred building consecrated to all Gods. It stands in the heart of the ancient Campus Martius, in one of the lowest parts of Rome, and its imposing facade dominates the southern side of Piazza della Rotonda. In 1870 the Pantheon became the shrine of the kings of Italy and hosts the mortal remains of Victor Emanuel the Second, Humbert the First and Margaret of Savoy and also Raffaello Sanzio, the supreme artist of the Renaissance, is buried in the Pantheon.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Fontana della Barcaccia, Piazza di Spagna, Rome Italy
The Fontana della Barcaccia is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna.
Two Papal coats of arms decorate the fountain and water gushes out of the mouths of two suns, another symbol of the Barberini family
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Trinita dei Monti, Piazza della Trinita’ Dei Monti 3, 00187 Rome Italy
The church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti, often called merely the Trinità dei Monti, is a Roman Catholic late Renaissance titular church in Rome. It is known for its commanding position above the Spanish Steps which lead down to the Piazza di Spagna. The church and its surrounding area (including the Villa Medici) are a French State property.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna, 00187 Rome Italy
Piazza di Spagna, at the bottom of the Spanish Steps, is one of the most famous squares in Rome. It owes its name to the Palazzo di Spagna, seat of the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See. Nearby is the famed Column of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the middle of the square is the famous Fontana della Barcaccia, dating to the beginning of the baroque period, sculpted by Pietro Bernini and his son, the more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Rome Italy
Trevi Fountain
Duration: 15 minutes
