Budget · 3-hour walk · Rome
Piazza Navona, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain in three hours
Campo de' Fiori's market, Bernini's fountain in a Roman stadium, the best-kept building of ancient Rome, a painted dome that is not there, and the fountain everyone throws a coin into.
The centro storico, in the bend of the Tiber, is the Rome of piazzas and fountains, built over the ancient city and largely rebuilt in the baroque. Its sights are a few minutes apart, so this route is more standing still than walking. Start at the market in the morning and reach the Trevi Fountain before lunch, or come back to it after dark, when the crowds thin.
The route, stop by stop
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Campo de' Fiori
The morning market square, watched over by the hooded statue of Giordano Bruno, who was burned for heresy on this spot in 1600.
25 min here Walk here → -
Piazza Navona
The square keeps the long shape of the stadium of Domitian it was built over. Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers stands in the middle.
25 min here Walk here → -
Pantheon
Hadrian's temple of around 125 AD, still roofed by the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, open to the sky at its centre. A ticket has been needed since 2023.
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Sant'Ignazio
The Jesuits never built the dome, so in 1685 Andrea Pozzo painted one on the flat ceiling. Stand on the marble disc in the nave to see the illusion work.
15 min here Walk here → -
Trevi Fountain
Nicola Salvi's baroque fountain, finished in 1762 at the end of an ancient aqueduct. Throw a coin over your shoulder to be sure of coming back to Rome.
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