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Baroque Rome

Baroque Rome

Rome · Italy

9 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow a sequence of churches and fountains that reveal Rome’s Baroque style through dramatic water, sculptural movement, grand façades, and richly shaped interiors. You will see how Baroque design appears in major religious buildings as well as in public fountains made to command attention. The walk is worth taking for its changing views of theatrical architecture and the way each stop adds a different expression of Baroque Rome.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 9. The rest are in the app.

  1. Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major

    Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major

    Christian church and tourism attraction in Rome, Italy

  2. Triton Fountain

    Triton Fountain

    Bernini turns papal plumbing into a daring, hollow sculpture of dolphins, Triton, and Barberini bees.

  3. Fontana della Barcaccia

    Fontana della Barcaccia

    A boat-shaped fountain that turned low water pressure into Bernini’s most playful engineering problem.

  4. 3 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Trevi Fountain

    Trevi Fountain

    A Baroque theatre of water, built on an ancient aqueduct and still negotiating Rome’s crowds.

  6. Fountain of the Four Rivers

    Fountain of the Four Rivers

    Bernini turns four rivers, an obelisk and moving water into a theatrical map of the known world.

  7. Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere

    Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere

    A fourth-century church rebuilt by Innocent II, where ancient columns meet medieval mosaics and a Byzantine Marian icon.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 3 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

3 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 9 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.