Walking Tour in Rome around the Spanish stairs GPS/audio guided

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Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• Piazza Navona (Pass by)

  Piazza Navona is one of the most famous squares in Rome. If you look at the layout of the square, you will notice that this square has an oval shape, which looks a lot like a stadium. And that is exactly what it once was! It was built as a stadium for athletics competitions and horse and carriage competitions. It was built around the year 100 AD by order of Emperor Domitian. The stadium could seat 30,000 visitors. The foundations of the buildings around the square were therefore also parts of the stands that stood around the square. On the square is a large church, the {Sant’Agnese in Agone}. This church dates from the seventeenth century. If you stand with your back to this church, you will see an access road to the square on your left, at the head of the square. If you enter here and then immediately look left, you will see the original entrance to the stadium in the distance.

  Admission ticket free
• Spanish Steps (Pass by)

  The Spanish Steps connect the Piazza di Spagna with the Pinicio hill and lead to the sixteenth-century church Trinità dei Monti. Together with the Trevi Fountain they are among the most famous cityscapes of Rome. At the same time they are considered to be among the most beautiful examples of the late Baroque in Rome. Incidentally, the Steps have nothing to do with Spain. They owe their Spanish title to the fact that they border the {Piazza di Spagna} and the Spanish embassy, ​​located at number 57 on the square. The Steps are made of Travertine. They have 135 steps, interrupted by two wide terraces. For some years now it has been forbidden to sit on the steps of the Spanish Steps.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  This column dates from the 19th century and is officially called the Colonna dell’Immacolata, the Column of the Immaculate Conception, with the statue of the Virgin Mary on top. Catholics believe that Mary, the mother of Jesus, gave birth to her son without being burdened with original sin. The Pope traditionally brings a floral tribute here on December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Trevi means ‘three-way junction’. The fountain was indeed built at the junction of three roads. 80 million litres of water pass through it every day! The fountain shows the sea god Oceanus, standing on a gigantic shell, pulled by two winged horses. On top we see the four seasons. It is tradition to throw a coin into the fountain. Do this with your eyes closed or with your back to the fountain and throw with your right hand over your left shoulder. Left-handed people throw over their right shoulder. According to legend, you will then return to Rome one day. Do you throw two coins in the fountain? Then you have a chance of meeting your loved one in Rome. Three coins increase the chance of a marriage. into the fountain every year! This money goes to charity. It is strictly forbidden to take money from the fountain yourself.

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• (Pass by)

  Column of Marcus Aurelius the emperor from around the year 200 AD. Here too, just like Trajan's column, a bas-relief spirals in twenty revolutions, depicting the emperor's victories against the Marcomanni and the Sarmatians as if in a comic strip. Here too, there is a spiral staircase inside. On top is a statue of the apostle Paul. In the Middle Ages, this column was managed by a neighbouring monastery.

  Admission ticket free
• (Pass by)

  Sant Ignazio church. Because it is built in between all kinds of buildings, this church is hardly noticeable. The church dates from the Baroque period: around 1500 AD, and is named after Saint Ignatius of Loyola. In 1540 he founded the Jesuit order, a religious order within the Catholic Church. Inside the church, halfway down the nave, just before the pews begin, lies a colored round stone. Stand on this stone and look at the dome of the church. But is it really a dome? No, it is an optical illusion, it looks like a dome. Originally a dome was planned, but the neighbors objected, so the dome did not go ahead. The columns in the fresco on the ceiling of the nave are also painted. From the same round stone in the nave it looks as if they are perfectly upright. In reality they are completely horizontal.

  Admission ticket free
• Pantheon (Pass by)

  Whoever visits Rome without having seen the Pantheon will return as a donkey, as a Roman saying goes. And indeed, the Pantheon is probably the best preserved remnant of Roman antiquity. Pantheon means ‘completely divine’, or ‘dedicated to all gods’. On the square in front of the Pantheon there is a fountain with an Egyptian obelisk in the middle. When you look at the Pantheon, you see that the building actually consists of two parts: a porch, in the form of a temple, and a large building behind it. Above the columns you can read, but translated of course, ‘Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, built it during his third consulate’. Consuls were important administrators of the Roman Empire. Marcus Agrippa was the most important general, and later also the son-in-law, of Emperor Augustus. This building dates from 27 BC! It was restored around 120 AD by Emperor Hadrian.

  Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Wheelchair accessible

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