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Spanish Steps to the Trevi Fountain - La Dolce Vita!
Tour provided by: Cities in Sound
Neighborhoods: Piazza Di Spagna (Spanish Steps)
Categories: Architecture, Culture, Film and TV, Heritage, History
Tour Description:
Starting at the Spanish Steps, Italian style oozes from every quarter on this walk. Film locations, designer shopping, artists working in their studios and coffee with Canova's statues. Explore the Piazza di Spagna and some of the charming less well-known back-streets of Rome, including the home of film director Federico Fellini. See what attracted so many English romantic poets to this area, before being enchanted by the Trevi Fountain (via the best ice-cream in Rome!)
Heart of Rome - Piazzas, palazzos and pizza!
Tour provided by: Cities in Sound
Neighborhoods: Heart of Rome
Categories: Architecture, Culture, Heritage, History
Tour Description:
Magnificent palaces, statues and sparkling fountains, stand witness to the buzz of modern Italian life. Wander through theatrical squares, sip coffee with the locals in cafes on cobbled streets. Piazza Navona and Campo de Fiori with its colourful market are on your route, step back 2,000 years as the Pantheon rises up before your eyes. Don't like art? You might after this walk! Don't like ice-cream? Sorry, there's no hope.....
The Forum - From Julius Caesar to the Colosseum
Tour provided by: Cities in Sound
Neighborhoods: Forum Romano
Categories: Architecture, Culture, Heritage, History
Tour Description:
The Forum offers an awesome memory of the administrative heart of Rome's ancient civilisation. Our narrative seeks to rebuild this magnificent market place and seat of justice of The Roman Empire from the jumble of abandoned columns and broken masonry. Pause where St. Peter was imprisoned before his execution. Walk where Julius Caesar was cremated and the Vestal Virgins kindled the spiritual flame. Parade with victorious Emperors and vanquished opponents along the Via Sacra finishing at the...
St Peter's Basilica
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Vatican
Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, Heritage, History
Tour Description:
The power of the Church made manifest Our audio tour of St Peter's has a single hero - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who made the basilica what it is today. Starting at the Ponte Sant'Angelo, we follow the steps of a seventeenth-century pilgrim to Rome and consider the meanings that Bernini created through his half-century of work on the basilica. We'll also see Hadrian's mausoleum, now the Castel Sant'Angelo, and the covered way that let Popes escape from an ambattled Vatican into their...
Santa Maria del Popolo
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Heart of Rome
Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, History
Tour Description:
A treasurehouse of art Santa Maria del Popolo is one of the most interesting churches in Rome. This audio tour explores the mixture of Renaissance and Baroque works in the church, giving you a feel for the styles and themes of the period. There's not a lot of Renaissance architecture in Rome - partly because of the huge building boom of the Baroque period - and the mix of both styles in this church makes it an unusual monument. For instance the nave is a standard Renaissance work, but...
The Capitoline
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Forum Romano
Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, History
Tour Description:
The hilltop origins of Rome The hill that towers over the Roman Forum was the original site of the Roman citadel. In the Middle Ages, it continued to be the centre of the city's secular government - its history includes many episodes of treachery and bloodshed. The Capitoline ('Campidoglio' in Italian), like other areas of Rome, was remodelled during the Renaissance to accordwith new ideas of town planning. The medieval palace that was the seat of the government was retained, but given a...
Baroque Rome II
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Piazza Navona, Heart of Rome
Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, History
Tour Description:
Experience the grandeur and drama of the Baroque Rome was a ferment of art in the Baroque period, with the two great architects Bernini and Borromini transforming the city under the patronage of the Popes. Painting, sculpture, architecture - all the arts flourished in the service of the church, creating richly dramatic buildings meant to play on the viewer's emotions and amaze the passer-by. Baroque Rome II starts at the church of the Gesù, and takes the back roads to Piazza Navona,...
Baroque Rome 1
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Piazza Di Spagna (Spanish Steps), Heart of Rome
Categories: Architecture, Art, Culture, History
Tour Description:
Experience the grandeur and drama of the Baroque Rome was a ferment of art in the Baroque period, with the two great architects Bernini and Borromini transforming the city under the patronage of the Popes. Painting, sculpture, architecture - all the arts flourished in the service of the church, creating richly dramatic buildings meant to play on the viewer's emotions and amaze the passer-by. Our first podtourâ?¢ starts at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, created by Michelangelo out...
The imperial forums
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Forum Romano
Categories: Architecture, History
Tour Description:
Imperial propaganda in brick and marble Emperor after emperor vied with his predecessors to leave a mark on the public buildings of the city of Rome. Nowhere was this more the case than with the Imperial Forums - places for business and for the administration of the state; for the pepper and spice market and the magistrates' courts alike. Our audio tour will show you how each forum marked out its own architectural space and style - and how plans became ever more ambitious. Trajan not only...
The Imperial forums of Rome
Tour provided by: Podtours
Neighborhoods: Forum Romano
Categories: Architecture, Art, History
Tour Description:
Imperial propaganda in brick and marble Emperor after emperor vied with his predecessors to leave a mark on the public buildings of the city of Rome. Nowhere was this more the case than with the Imperial Forums - places for business and for the administration of the state; for the pepper and spice market and the magistrates' courts alike. Our audio tour will show you how each forum marked out its own architectural space and style - and how plans became ever more ambitious. Trajan not only...
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