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Rome Walking Tour #3 - Spanish Steps to Piazza Navona

Start at either

• Metro Line A - Barberini - for the Capuchin Crypt 
• Metro Line A - Spagna - for the Spanish Steps

Capuchin Crypt

• Bones of 4,000 monks

Spanish Steps

• High Fashion Shopping Area
• Keats-Shelley Museum

Trevi Fountain

• Throw coin here :)

Column of Marcus Aurelius

• the Emperor from Gladiator

 

Pantheon

• Best preserved Roman temple (was converted to a church so was saved)
• Cafe's across from Pantheon

Santa Maria sopra Minerva

• Cute Elephant statue at the front
• Beautiful Church
• Saint Catherine of Siena is buried here (mostly, sans head)
• Michelangelo statue - Christ the Redeemer
  
• Careful not to trip over Fra Angelico who is buried inside (I'm serious, I nearly did it)

Piazza Novona

• Built over the chariot racing Stadium of Domitian, you can still see the oval
• Lots of Restaurants

 

Also in the area :- 

North - Palazzo Altemps Museum

• Nice compact museum if the Capitoline Museums are too much

North - Walk to the Tiber River

• Ponte Sant Angelo
• Castel Sant Angelo / Hardians Mausoleum
• St Peter's Basilica

South - Campo De Fiori

• Market place
• Spot where Ceasar was assasinated

Rome Walking Tour #4 - Further afield & things not to miss

This section contains a quick rundown of interesting and must see places which might be a bit too far to actually walk.  :-)

St. Peter's Basilica - Vatican City - Vatican Museums

This is a fairly obvious choice but a little hard to get to :-

• 62 Bus - To St Peters - goes from north of Repubblica, through the center of Rome in a long sideways S shape - Via del Tritone, Via del Corso, Piazza Venezia (north end), Vittorio Emanuelle II, across to river and takes you right to the front of the spot where the shot on the top left is taken.
• Metro Line A - to Ottaviano - San Pietro.  This drops you about 10 blocks north of the colonnade, walk straight down Via di Porta Angelica.  Map
• Metro Line A - to Cipro if you are going to the Vatican Museum, stop is about 3 blocks west and 2 bocks north of the museum entrance.   Map
  

Video of inside St Peters

Spanish Steps & Capuchin Crypt

• Err, they're famous, they're steps
• Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezione - Bones

Basilica of St. John Lateran - Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano

On the south eastern edge of the city, where the Pope lived prior to 1300.

• Metro A - to S. Giovanni  or  Bus 850 / 117 from central Rome
• Amazing church and a lot less crowded than St Peter's
• Scala Sancta or Holy Stairs, from the home of Pontius Pilate, are across the road
  

Pyramid of C Cestius & Protestant Cemetery

Take the A Metro to Piramide and you'll find this greeting you when you get outside.

Protestant Cemetery

Burial place of Shelley, Keats & Goethe's son.   Go to Piramide station mentioned above, walk to the right of the pyramid and around the block to the left and you end up here.

and yes, they built the Pyramid into the cemitary walls.

Via Appia - Ancient Roman Road & Christian Catacombs

They knew how to build the roads straight back in those days - the 2nd photos is on max zoom and as far as can been seen it's dead straight. (orginally something like 132 miles)

• Take the 118 Bus or bike ride

Christian Catacombs

•  Take the 118 Bus or bike ride
• Catacombe di San Callisto

Colosseum to Musei Capitolini via Roman Forum

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Colosseum & Arch of Constantine

So start off to the side of the Colosseum & the Arch of Constantine and head west to the entrance of the Roman Forum.

Roman Forum

• Arch of Titus 
     
• Via Sacra
• Temple of the Vestil Virgins
• Temple of Julius Caesar - spot of Caesar's cremation
• Lapas Niger
• Curia - Roman Senate building
• Arch of Septimus Severus

Forum of  Augustus

Details

Forum Hotel

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    • Restaurant on roof top
    • http://www.hotelforumrome.com/

Tajan's Markets

Details

Trajan's Column

Shows a pictorial history of the Dacian war in what is now Romania.

Piazza Venezia

• Traffic Chaos
• Museo del Palazzo di Venezia

Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II

• Looks somewhat like what Ancient Rome must have looked like 'back in the day'

Santa Maria in Aracoeli

• The Steps!

Musei Capitolini

• Piazza designed by Michelangelo
• Bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Emperor from Gladiator)
• Huge statue of Constantine the Great

 

View of St Peters from Santa Maria in Aracoeli

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Rome Central Train Station area to Colosseum - Page 3

Rome Walking Tour - Page 1 - Page 2

Cavour Station & Steps

There is a set of steps on the east side of the intersection of Via Cavour & Via Giovanni Lanza, take those to a small laneway behind the church.

San Pietro in Vincoli - St Peter in Chains

• Michelangelo's statue of Moses (completed 1515)
• Reliquary containing the chains of St. Peter.

Domus Aurea - Nero's Golden Palace

After leaving the church head left towards the park rather than directly down to the Colosseum, the park is really nice and contains the ruins of Nero's Golden Palace the Domus Aurea.  If you go further left into the park you can go to the Baths of Trajan.

Colosseum

Going through the park you end up on a bit of a hill which I think gives you the best view of the Colosseum for long photos.

Walking Tour #2 - Roman Forum to Museums

Rome Central Train Station area to Colosseum - Page 2  

Rome Walking Tour - Page 1 - Page 3

Santa Maria Maggiore - St Mary Major

Coming up Via Cavour you come across what is actually the back for the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, with an Obelisk in the Piazza Dell Esquilino behind it.

So turn left and go up to the front of the church

• Originally built in in 432
• Internal structure mostly from 12th-13th Century with cosmatesque marble pavement.
• Bell tower was erected in 1377

Basilica inside photos and discription

Tombs

Heading away from the church passing the Marian column.  Across the road is a shop with Ice Cream. :-)    Work your way through the back streets and head down Via Giovanni Lanza towards Cavour Metro station.

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