Private Rome Walk from Piazza di Spagna to Campo de' Fiori

A private walk across the historic centre, from the most expensive square in Rome to its oldest working market. It starts at Piazza di Spagna, a district that was the English quarter before it was the luxury one. Keats died in a house on the square and Byron stayed nearby; the English-speaking visitors of the day met at Caffè Greco, which is still open and still serving. The flagship boutiques came later. From there to the Trevi Fountain, designed in the eighteenth century by Nicolò Salvi and fed by a Roman aqueduct that has never stopped running, which is the part worth knowing: the water in front of you arrives the same way it did two thousand years ago. The Pantheon follows, begun under Augustus, rebuilt by Hadrian, and still carrying the largest unreinforced dome in Rome. The guide covers how it survived and why it became a church. Then Piazza Navona on the outline of a Roman stadium, and Campo de' Fiori to finish, among wooden stalls selling flowers, fruit, meat and fish. The guide is Tania, and you will find her in front of the Spanish Steps in an orange scarf.