Baroque Rome: Fountains, Squares and a Meal to Finish

A private walk through the centre for people arriving in Rome for the first time, ending at a table rather than at a metro station. The route takes the four set pieces: the Trevi Fountain and its coin, the restored Spanish Steps, Piazza del Popolo with the oldest obelisk in the city at its centre, the Pantheon, and Piazza Navona on the outline of Domitian's stadium with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in the middle. What a private guide adds here is order and connection. These are all Baroque set pieces except the Pantheon, and the Baroque ones were built to be seen from particular angles, at particular hours, by people arriving on particular roads. Walked in sequence with someone explaining that, the squares stop being a list and start being a scheme. The walk finishes at a local restaurant with traditional Mediterranean cooking, which after three hours on your feet is the right way to end an introduction to the city.