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One Hundred Audio Stories Across Fifty Places in Rome

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Self-Guided Tours in Rome with 100 Captivating Audio Stories
Self-Guided Tours in Rome with 100 Captivating Audio Stories
Self-Guided Tours in Rome with 100 Captivating Audio Stories
Self-Guided Tours in Rome with 100 Captivating Audio Stories
Self-Guided Tours in Rome with 100 Captivating Audio Stories
Self-Guided Tours in Rome with 100 Captivating Audio Stories

A hundred recorded stories tied to fifty locations, which is roughly five times the coverage of a normal audio walk and the reason to choose this one. The famous stops are there, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, but so are the Aqueduct Park, Santa Costanza, the Janiculum, Villa Doria Pamphilj, three Tiber bridges and the Orange Garden on the Aventine. If you are in Rome for a week rather than a weekend, that is where the value sits. It runs in the browser with nothing to install. Headphones and a data connection are the whole requirement. Start where you are, stop when you want lunch, pick it up two days later in a different part of the city. The narration is written as storytelling with soundscapes behind it rather than as a list of dates, which works better while walking than a lecture does. Two practical notes. Activation is done by entering the last five digits of your phone number in the promo code field at App.trales.io after booking. And all sales are final: cancellations are not refunded.

What's included

  • Web app with map
  • Stories & guides about top sights, historic events & famous people
  • Captivating storytelling & soundscapes
  • 1 step access: Link to easily activate and access your audio guide

Itinerary

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  1. Rome

    No meeting point. Start and stop wherever you like. A good opening is the Colosseum, then past the Roman Forum and on into the centre from there.

  2. Pantheon

    One of 100 location-based stories: The Pantheon, and what a temple to all the gods was actually for. Walk it at your own pace and in your own order. All you need is a phone with a connection and headphones. Nothing to download, it runs from the browser, and you can stop and restart wherever you like.

  3. Colosseum

    One of 100 location-based stories: The Colosseum, with the gladiators, the programme of a games day and the emperors who paid for it.

  4. Roman Forum

    One of 100 location-based stories: The Roman Forum, the square that ran the empire for centuries, and how to read the ruins that are left of it.

  5. Trevi Fountain

    One of 100 location-based stories: The Trevi Fountain: where the water comes from, who built it and what the coins are about.

  6. Spanish Steps

    One of 100 location-based stories: The Spanish Steps, and why a staircase between a square and a church became the most famous one in Europe.

  7. Piazza Navona

    One of 100 location-based stories: Piazza Navona, its shape, its fountains and the arena underneath it.

  8. St. Peter's Basilica

    One of 100 location-based stories: St Peter's Basilica, the building and the century and a half it took to finish.

  9. Piazza Venezia / Ancient City

    One of 100 location-based stories: Piazza Venezia, where ancient Rome and the modern capital sit on top of each other.

  10. Trastevere

    One of 100 location-based stories: Trastevere, across the river, and what the district was before it became the place everyone eats.

  11. Piazza del Popolo

    One of 100 location-based stories: Piazza del Popolo, the gate travellers arrived through for centuries, and the square built to receive them.

  12. Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

    Santa Maria Maggiore, the largest church in Rome dedicated to the Virgin, and the legend of the snow that explains its plan.

  13. Villa Borghese

    Villa Borghese, the park and the collection, and Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who assembled both.

  14. Appian Way (Via Appia Antica)

    The Appian Way, the road the legions marched south on, still paved with the stones they marched over.

  15. Colle del Gianicolo

    The Janiculum, the hill outside the famous seven, with the gods, the heroes and the view.

  16. Navona / Pantheon / Campo de’ Fiori

    Campo de' Fiori, a market by morning and something else entirely by night, with the history under the stalls.

  17. Piazza Barberini

    Piazza Barberini, the square the Barberini family built themselves, and what it looked like before the traffic.

  18. Piazza della Repubblica

    Piazza della Repubblica, its curve traced from the exedra of the Baths of Diocletian standing behind it.

  19. Piazza Venezia

    Piazza Venezia again, from the other side: the layers underneath and what was demolished to make the square.

  20. Piazza della Minerva

    Piazza della Minerva, named for the temple of Minerva Chalcidica that stood on this ground long before the church did.

  21. Piazza Farnese

    Piazza Farnese and the palace that fills one side of it, built for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in the 16th century.

  22. Piazza Navona

    Piazza Navona a second time, for the buildings around the edge rather than the fountains in the middle.

  23. Piazza del Popolo

    Piazza del Popolo again: the obelisk, the twin churches and the trick of perspective they were built to perform.

  24. Spanish Steps

    Piazza di Spagna at the bottom of the steps, with the embassy that gave the square its name.

  25. Piazza del Campidoglio

    Piazza del Campidoglio, laid out by Michelangelo over the most sacred hill of the ancient city.

  26. Piazza Farnese

    Piazza Farnese once more, this time for the two granite basins in it, taken from the Baths of Caracalla.

  27. Discover the secrets of Rome's Turtle Fountain in Piazza…

    The Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei, and the story of how the turtles arrived on its rim long after the rest.

  28. Discover the secrets of Rome's iconic Fountain of the Four…

    The Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, and what the four figures are meant to be doing.

  29. Via Del Corso

    Via del Corso, the straight line through the centre, once used for a horse race run without riders.

  30. Via Veneto

    Via Veneto, where the film crews and the photographers of the Dolce Vita years worked the pavement.

  31. Mouth Of Truth

    The Mouth of Truth, a colossal stone face of a titan god, and what it was before it became a lie detector.

  32. Ponte Sisto

    Ponte Sisto, and the bridge that stood on the same crossing before it.

  33. St. Angelo Bridge

    Ponte Sant'Angelo, Roman built and now for pedestrians only, with the angels installed centuries after the arches.

  34. Pont Fabricius

    The Pons Fabricius, more than two thousand years old and still carrying people across the Tiber to the island.

  35. Ponte Cestio

    The Pons Cestius, on the other side of the island, and what a Roman bridge had to survive to still be here.

  36. Arch of Constantine

    The Arch of Constantine, and the older monuments its sculptors quietly took their reliefs from.

  37. Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere

    Santa Maria in Trastevere, with a history that reaches back to the 220s and mosaics that are worth the walk on their own.

  38. Mausoleo di Santa Costanza

    Santa Costanza, a round mausoleum with 4th-century mosaics, and the two imperial sisters buried in it.

  39. Basilica di Santa Sabina

    Santa Sabina on the Aventine, and its wooden doors, carved when the empire was still standing.

  40. Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano

    San Giovanni in Laterano, the cathedral of Rome, and the Laterani family whose land it was built on.

  41. Step back in time to the awe-inspiring Circus Maximus

    The Circus Maximus, the largest venue Rome ever built, now a green hollow the shape of the track.

  42. Embark on a thrilling journey to the ancient Aventine Hill

    The Aventine, one of the original hills, and its part in the founding of the city.

  43. Uncover the secrets of Rome's past on the illustrious…

    The Oppian Hill, with Nero's Golden House under the park and Trajan's baths on top of it.

  44. Discover Rome's secret sanctuary

    The Orange Garden on the Aventine, small, walled, and with one of the best views in Rome over the far bank.

  45. Villa Doria Pamphilj

    Villa Doria Pamphilj, the largest park in Rome, laid out in the 17th century for a family with a pope in it.

  46. Pincian Hill

    The Pincian Hill, where the gardens of the Roman rich once stood, above Piazza del Popolo.

  47. Colle del Gianicolo

    The Janiculum again, this time for the cannon fired at noon and the terrace it is fired from.

  48. Discover the enchanting Villa Lante al Gianicolo

    Villa Lante al Gianicolo, designed by Giulio Romano, with the city laid out below it.

  49. Uncover Rome's grandeur at Parco degli Acquedotti

    The Parco degli Acquedotti, 240 hectares of open ground with the aqueduct arches running across it.

  50. Step onto Tiber Island

    Tiber Island, a hospital site for two thousand years, from the temple of Asclepius to the one standing there now.

  51. Vatican City

    Vatican City, the smallest independent state in the world, with St Peter's and the Sistine Chapel inside its walls and an influence out of all proportion to its size.

  52. Rome

Not included

  • Offline access
  • Smartphone & headphones (bring your own)
  • Physical in-person guide (not needed)

Good to know

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
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  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Not recommended for travelers with hearing impairment
  • Up to 15 travelers per booking.
  • Mobile or paper ticket accepted
  • Guiding available in: de, ru, cmn, en, it, pl, fr, es.

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