Neighbourhoods and local life in Rome: audio walks

Behind Rome's monuments are streets where the city worked, traded and recognised itself through neighbourhoods. This theme shifts the focus towards those ways of living. The routes bring people and places together to explore how Rome was inhabited and how neighbourhood stories sit alongside the famous names that draw so many visitors.

In “Monti and the Suburra”: Monti was the Suburra, the noisy neighbourhood Rome hid behind its monuments.

In “Trastevere, from St Cecilia”: You start in front of the church of the saint who was sculpted just as they said they found her, and carry on down the alley where the statue the people demanded back from Tiberius turned up.

In “The Caelian and the Circus Maximus”: Beside Santi Giovanni e Paolo stands the platform of the temple Agrippina raised to the husband she poisoned, according to one version recorded by Suetonius; underneath, the Roman houses that tradition gives to two martyrs.

Choose from 3 independent walks in Rome. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.