Rome for Families with Pizza at a Historic Bakery and a Gelato

Two and a half hours with a guide who speaks your language and runs games as you go, and two food stops that make the difference between a walk children endure and one they remember. It starts at Campo de' Fiori, at the statue of Giordano Bruno in the middle of the market, which is a good square to begin a story in. The pizza comes early, Roman style, from an old bakery that Romans queue at too, which is the test that matters. Then Piazza Navona, where the guide gets the group to work out the shape of the square for themselves: it is long and rounded at one end because a Roman stadium is underneath it. Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain, the Baroque fronts, the church of Sant'Agnese and an Egyptian obelisk are all in one view. The Pantheon comes next, and the fact that lands with children is that this dome was the largest in the world for well over a thousand years. Gelato after that, then the Trevi Fountain and the coin. In that order, deliberately.