City walksRome after sunset: a 90-minute loop through the centro storico
Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps once the coaches have left. A short evening loop that starts and ends at Campo de' Fiori.
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Walk Rome's centro storico, the ancient city and Trastevere with a story at every stop.
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Walking in Rome
Two thousand years of history on every corner.
The map covers the centro storico, the ancient city and Trastevere: more than fifteen hundred places, each graded so a route favours the Pantheon over a minor fountain.
Choose how long you want to walk, start where you stand and follow the loop. Each stop's story starts as you arrive, and the walk is saved when you finish.
Walks to ask the app for
- Centro storico after sunsetabout 1.5 hPiazza Navona, the Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain once the day-trippers have gone.
- Ancient Romeabout 2 hColosseum, the Forum and the Palatine, ending at the Circus Maximus.
- Trastevere and the Gianicoloabout 2 hThe lanes of Trastevere and the climb to the best view of the city.
On the way
Places a Rome loop is built around
- ColosseumThe Flavian Amphitheatre, inaugurated in AD 80.
- PantheonRebuilt under Hadrian around AD 126; its concrete dome is still the world's largest unreinforced one.
- Piazza NavonaBuilt over Domitian's stadium, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers.
- Trevi FountainNicola Salvi's baroque fountain, completed in 1762.
- Roman ForumThe civic centre of the ancient city, between the Capitoline and Palatine hills.
- Spanish StepsThe 1720s staircase from Piazza di Spagna up to Trinità dei Monti.
Before you go
Good to know in Rome
How a loop is built, when a story starts and how friends join: see how it works.
- The Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine share one ticket. The Pantheon has charged for entry since July 2023.
- The centro storico is mostly flat; the Palatine, the Capitoline and the Gianicolo are short climbs.
- Rome's nasoni, the cast-iron street fountains, run with drinking water all over the centre.
From the blog
Reading about Rome
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Walk Rome. The stories find you.
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