Rome Orientation Walk: Getting Your Bearings in the Centre

This is the walk to take on the first morning, before anything else is booked. The point is orientation as much as sightseeing. Alongside the architecture and the history, the guide works on where you actually are: which district is which, how the streets connect, how to move around the city, and answers to the practical questions that only occur to you once you have arrived. The route runs from the Spanish Steps to the Trevi Fountain, past the Temple of Hadrian in Piazza di Pietra, to the Pantheon, and finishes in Piazza Navona with the Fountain of the Four Rivers. One point to be clear about: the Pantheon is seen from the square on this walk. The guide can arrange a customised tour that goes inside, but it is not part of this itinerary. If entering the building is what you want, book one of the tours that includes admission. The walk starts at Babington's tea room and ends at a bookshop on Via del Governo Vecchio, which tells you something about the kind of tour it is.