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From the Spanish Steps to St Peter's

If you only have one day in Rome, this is your route: the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant'Angelo and St Peter's Square, joined by the backstreets of the historic centre and told through the stories behind every postcard.

  • 6 stops
  • 3.6 km
  • 2 h 30 min
  • Free
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The Trevi Fountain with Oceanus in the centre and its basin

The route

Stop by stop

  1. 1 Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish StepsA staircase paid for by a French diplomat, in a square named after a Spanish embassy.
  2. 2 The Trevi FountainA two-thousand-year-old aqueduct flows into the most famous water theatre in the world.
  3. 3 The PantheonThe best-preserved Roman building in the world, with a dome that has been breaking records for nearly nineteen centuries.
  4. 4 Piazza NavonaRome's great Baroque living room, with three fountains in a row on the track of a Roman stadium.
  5. 5 Castel Sant'AngeloAn emperor's tomb turned into a fortress, a prison and a refuge for the popes.
  6. 6 St Peter's SquareBernini's embrace in stone, an obelisk that never fell and a border you cross without a passport.

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What you’ll discover

From the Spanish Steps to St Peter's

The great postcards

The six places everyone wants to see, with the context that turns them into more than a photo.

Baroque Rome

Bernini, Borromini and the popes who turned the city into a stage of water and marble.

Into another country

The walk ends by crossing an almost invisible border: that of the smallest state in the world.

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