City squares, Pantheon & Trevi Fontain

We start from the refined Piazza Farnese with the superb Palazzo Farnese. Then we proceed to the lively.

Campo dei Fiori square with the picturesque market. Piazza Navona, the most Baroque of Rome’s piazzas, with Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers and Borromini’s S.Agnese in Agone church. Church of St. Luis of the French, with Caravaggio’s precious paintings.

The elegant façade of Palazzo Madama, hosting the Italian Senate, and the Pantheon, the best kept monument of ancient Rome. Finally Piazza di Pietra and the enchanting Trevi Fountain.

Info about City squares, Pantheon & Trevi Fontain

The Pantheon is a former Roman temple, now a church, in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). It was completed by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated about 126 AD. Its date of construction is uncertain, because Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple but rather to retain the inscription of Agrippa’s older temple, which had burned down. The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon’s dome is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43 metres (142 ft). It was unique in Roman architecture. Nevertheless, it became a standard exemplar when classical styles were revived, and has been copied many times by later architects. The Pantheon is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings and in 2013 it was visited by over 6 million people.

The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain has appeared in several notable films, including Federico Fellini‘s La Dolce Vita.

The city squares is the center of life in Italy and the life and the history of Rome goes also and specially through its squares so, among barroque fountains, ancient churches, Roman ruins and marvelous monuments, his squares are the best way to get to know the life and history of Rome, the eternal city.