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
Fettuccine Class on Piazza Navona, at Ristorante Tucci
A pasta workshop held on the square itself rather than off it, with the fountains in the window and a technique that works at home with a rolling pin.
First-Timer's Day in Rome by Car, with the Vatican Museums
Ancient city in the morning, centre at midday, Vatican after lunch. The museums close on Sundays and the ticket cost drops off that booking.
Five Shapes of the Roman Aperitivo, Pilotta to Navona
Cocktail, fried supplì, Roman craft beer, a salumi board and tiramisu, in that order. Runs in English and Italian, so everything is said twice.
Five Wines from Across Italy, Not Just the Lazio Hills
Pecorino Romano, cheese matured in Barolo and thirty-year-old balsamic, each poured against a different wine. Inside a wine bar Romans use.
Following the Aqueduct from the Spanish Steps to the Trevi Cistern
A walk with one argument, tracing a working Roman aqueduct end to end, including the stretch exposed under a Via del Tritone department store.
Following the Trevi Water Through the City Below It
All three sections of the site, tracing the aqueduct from the fountain into the pipes and basins of the Roman house built to use it.
Forty Minutes at the Trevi Fountain and the Domus Below It
A guide reads the facade in the order it was composed, then takes you nine metres down to the aqueduct that has never stopped supplying it.
Fountains and Squares, Downhill from Trinità dei Monti
Starts at the top of the Spanish Steps and runs downhill all the way to Piazza Navona, which in a Roman summer is the whole argument.
Four Hours of Tastings That End with Dinner in a Trattoria
The last stop is a sit-down supper in a Roman trattoria rather than a gelato on a corner. Sixteen people maximum, Campo de' Fiori to Trastevere.
Four Stops by Private Car: Trevi, Navona, St Peter's, Castel
Four places done properly rather than twenty in passing, covering both banks of the river without the walk between them.
From a Bridge Built in 62 BC: Trastevere with 7+ Tastings
It opens with artichoke, burrata and prosecco on Ponte Fabricio, and takes in the only Roman square that kept the name of its vanished baths.
From the Bars to the Bridge: A Ghost Walk in One Direction
The stops get quieter and worse in order, from a square full of tables to the bridge where the executed were displayed. Kit and certificate included.
From the Capuchin Crypt to the Pantheon, Ending Inside the Rotunda
From a room of arranged bones to the calmest interior in Rome, in that order on purpose, finishing inside the rotunda rather than in the square.
Gelato and Fettuccine Class on Piazza Navona, in Two Parts
You make both by hand, then the restaurant kitchen cooks your pasta and the waiters plate it at your table as they would anything on the menu.
Gelato from the 2020 World Champion: A Private Food Tour
Eugenio Morrone's shop is off the main streets and on this route. Three and a half hours through Campo de' Fiori, the Ghetto and Trastevere.
Ghetto and Campo Marzio by Night: 1555, 1824, 1920
A bakery run by the same family since 1824, and dinner among the remains of Pompey's theatre. Four hours, ending at the Caesar site.
Ghost Hunt Through Rome, with Mastro Titta's House
The papal executioner logged 516 killings in his own hand and lived on this route. Ghost Hunter Kit included, certificate at the end.
Giulia Tofana and Corte Savella: A Pay-What-You-Want Walk
Names the poisoner, the murderer-goldsmith and the only prison allowed to execute indoors. Guides paid by what you decide it was worth. Age 12+.
Gluten Free and Still Fried: Chef Christian's Roman Feast
Battered courgette flowers and sage leaves, fresh fettuccine and trofie, all gluten free. Run by a restaurateur who is also a sommelier.
Gnocchi Class at Ristorante Panzirone on Piazza Navona
Gnocchi are won or lost in the shaping, which is why doing it once under supervision beats reading about it. Thursday is the traditional day in Rome.
Guided Walk from Piazza d'Aracoeli to Piazza Navona
Covers Piazza Venezia, the Trevi Fountain and the outside of the Pantheon on foot. Entry to the Pantheon is not included in this walk.
Half Day in Rome by Minivan, with the Aventine Keyhole
Three states line up through one keyhole on the Aventine, and the van covers the rest of the city so the walking happens only at the stops.
Haunted Rome with a Ghost Hunter Kit and a Certificate
The kit turns the walk into something you do: you are taught what to look for, with video recreations at the stops and a certificate at the end.
Hidden Rome by Car: the Appian Way, Catacombs and Aqueducts
Everything on this route sits outside the walls and off any walking tour, including the quarries that gave the word catacomb to the language.
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