The Baroque: artists and rivalries in Rome: audio walks

Roman Baroque encourages you to look up, but its stories begin at street level. Fountains, domes and façades connect here with artists, commissions and rivalries. This theme lets you compare approaches and protagonists across several walks, paying attention both to what is known about a work and to the anecdotes that have become attached to it.

In “Pantheon, Minerva and Piazza Colonna”: You carry on past a temple turned customs house and stock exchange, a church that paints the dome it never had, and the Pantheon, which signs itself with someone else's name, survived by becoming a church and holds Raphael's tomb.

In “Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori”: You start at a tower where, according to a legend a novelist noted down in 1858, a lamp burns because of a vow.

In “The Spanish Steps and Trevi”: You head down the steps paid for by a Frenchman's legacy after a long legal battle, look up at the house where Keats spent his last days, and at a fountain that seems to be sinking.

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.