Around the Pantheon: the quarter, honestly labelled
Two hundred and fifty-three experiences within a twenty-five minute walk of the portico. Twenty-two of them go inside the monument, and we say which.
This part of the site is not about the Pantheon. It is about the eleven or twelve streets around it, which is where you will spend the rest of the day, and it is filed under a name that says so.
That distinction sounds like pedantry and it is the whole design. Elsewhere in this market a category called Pantheon tours can contain a golf cart, a cooking class and a walk that never goes closer than the far side of Piazza Navona. Ours cannot, because everything that does not go inside the monument is here instead, under a heading that reads Nearby.
Two hundred and fifty-three experiences, in four groups: walking tours, attractions with their own tickets, evenings, and food and wine. Twenty-two of them do include Pantheon admission, and those carry a badge on the card so you can see it without opening anything.
There is a tension in putting the quarter on a site named after one monument, and it is better said out loud. The food tours here have more reviews than everything else on the site combined — one Trastevere walk carries 6,285 on its own, almost as many as all seventy-eight experiences that get you inside the Pantheon put together. The building is the reason you came. The quarter is where the evening goes.
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Pantheon, Trevi & Navona
The classic walk of the centre, a triangle of about 2.3 km. Half of these twenty-two tours include Pantheon admission; the other half stop outside.
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Squares & Fountains
Navona, Trevi, Campo de' Fiori, Farnese, the Spanish Steps. What each square is built on, where the water comes from, and the two that will fine you.
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Rome Highlights for First-Timers
One day in Rome and the arithmetic of it. The Pantheon is one stop out of six or eight here, and none of these twenty tours actually goes inside it.
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Hidden Gems & Secret Corners
Borromini's corridor that lies about its length, a painted courtyard by the Trevi, the arc of Agrippa's baths in a street. Rome on a second visit.
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Baroque Rome: Bernini & Caravaggio
Six Caravaggios in three churches, all free to enter and the nearest three minutes from the portico. Plus a dome at Sant'Ignazio that is a painting.
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Self-Guided Walks & Audio Apps
Walks you take alone, with an app or a printed clue, from €1.95. The thinnest page on this site, eight products, and none of them includes admission.
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Underground Rome
Vicus Caprarius under the Trevi district, nine metres down and €4 to enter. The stadium under Piazza Navona is closed, and tickets are still being sold.
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Crypts & Bone Chapels
About 3,700 friars, arranged by the men who buried them, twenty minutes away and €10 to see. Not for everyone, and the good tours say so plainly.
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Castel Sant'Angelo
Hadrian's mausoleum, seventeen minutes on foot along the river, run by the same state body as the Pantheon. Eighteen euro, and closed on Mondays.
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Palaces & Private Galleries
Doria Pamphilj, Colonna, Braschi, Altemps: collections still in the rooms they were bought for, and hours that close on the day you would not expect.
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Night Walking Tours
The centre after dark, when the squares empty and the fountains are lit. Everything ticketed here shuts by 19:30, so these walks stay outside.
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Sunset Walks
The hour before dark, which moves by four hours across the year. Sunset runs from 16:40 in December to 20:49 in June, and the portico faces north.
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Mysteries, Legends & Ghosts
Crime stories, hauntings and the Angels and Demons trail. Entertainment rather than history, and one of the novel's four altars is not by Bernini.
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Food Tours of the Centre
Campo de' Fiori, the Jewish Ghetto and Trastevere: three neighbourhoods and three different meals. Most of these tours are across the river.
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Gelato, Coffee & Sweets
Tazza d'Oro is a minute from the portico and Sant'Eustachio two, and they make coffee differently on purpose. Nine gelaterie within nine minutes.
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Cooking Classes
Fresh pasta, pizza and tiramisu in kitchens near Piazza Navona, from €33. Two and a half hours at the median; the market visit is a longer morning.
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Wine Tasting & Dinners
Cellars, rooftop tastings and dinners with a sommelier. One is served four minutes from the portico, over a Roman wall of the age of Augustus.
19 experiences
Pantheon Museum Experiences in Nearby
Under Trastevere: A Lost Basilica and a Martyr's House
A 4th-century church under one basilica and a 3rd-century home under the other. The Cavallini Room is on morning departures only.
Unusual Rome by Private Car, for a Third or Fourth Visit
Built for people who have already done the Colosseum and the Vatican, covering the fourth-day sites that are only unvisited because they are far apart.
Up the Roman Spiral Ramp to the Hall of Urns, in Two Hours
The climb is the point: a continuous curving ramp built for a funeral procession, still the way visitors reach the emperor's ashes.
Villa Borghese Sunset Photoshoot, with a Video Reel
Comes with a short cinematic edit as well as stills, shot in the last hour of light between the lake temple and the Pincio terrace.
Villa Farnesina and Trastevere, Privately
Starts inside the villa Raphael painted for a banker who threw the dinner plates in the Tiber, then works through the district on foot.
Where the Borghese Collection Started: A Private Two Hours
The Proserpina came first and the rest followed from it. Two floors, twenty rooms, and a guide who can afford to let you stop.
Where the Borgia Are Buried: Two Hours, Fifteen People
Two Borgia popes lie in a Spanish church a few streets from the market, in a city that spent centuries trying to forget them.
While the Pasta Dries, You Learn Gelato
Three hours in a Trastevere kitchen that opens with prosecco and cured meats. A pizza version can be chosen instead at booking.
Who Killed Caravaggio: The Murder Scene and the Paintings
Goes past the paintings to the street where Tomassoni died and the lane where Caravaggio and his model Lena both lived. Built to work in any weather.
Why We Say Milestone: The Forums at Sunset
Built around the Roman words still in daily English, from a theatre the Colosseum copied to the oldest museum on earth. Small group, after the heat.
Wine Tasting in a 1st-Century Roman Cistern Under Trastevere
Cantina Fabullus sits in a recovered Roman cistern under an 18th-century building, with an hour of protected-origin Italian cheeses and cured meats.
Wonders of Rome Walk, from Aracoeli to Piazza Navona
Includes the Galleria Sciarra, a frescoed 19th-century courtyard a minute from Trevi that almost nobody walks into. Arrive ten minutes early.
You Make the Gelato Too, Not Just Watch It Being Made
Both recipes are hands-on, which matters because gelato is the one you cannot improvise at home. The kitchen is minutes from Piazza Navona.
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