Step Into History
Walk Rome in 1770
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Step Into History · City walk
Piranesi's Rome on the Grand Tour, 1770
This is Rome at the height of the Grand Tour era, where freshly completed Baroque works sit beside half-buried antiquities and an international stream of sketching tourists moves through the city. The walk passes gates and piazzas, excavated forums and river quays, artists and milords sketching among columns, the new Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps' models and the goats grazing on the Palatine.
39 scenes — 24 streets, squares and views, 15 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Rome as it stood in 1770 (“Grand Tour”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Monte Mario View
- ↳ Pio-Clementino Gallery · interior
- 2. Porta del Popolo
- 3. Piazza del Popolo
- ↳ Cerasi Chapel · interior
- 4. Via dei Condotti
- ↳ Caffè degli Inglesi Room · interior
- 5. Spanish Steps
- ↳ Trinità dei Monti Nave · interior
- 6. Fontana di Trevi
- 7. Via delle Muratte
- ↳ Sculptor's Studio of Casts · interior
- 8. Via del Corso
- ↳ Doria Pamphilj Ballroom · interior
- 9. Piazza Colonna
- 10. Piazza Venezia
- ↳ Palazzo Venezia Hall · interior
- 11. Campidoglio
- 12. Foro Romano
- ↳ Santi Cosma e Damiano Interior · interior
- 13. Palatino
- ↳ Domitian's Audience Hall · interior
- 14. Colosseo
- ↳ Colosseum Vaults and Arches · interior
- 15. San Giovanni in Laterano
- 16. Piazza della Rotonda
- ↳ Pantheon Rotunda · interior
- 17. Piazza Navona
- ↳ Sant'Agnese Nave · interior
- 18. Campo de' Fiori
- 19. Piazza Farnese
- ↳ Farnese Gallery Salon · interior
- 20. Via Giulia
- 21. Ponte Sisto
- 22. Santa Maria in Trastevere
- ↳ Santa Maria Mosaics Nave · interior
- 23. Gianicolo Belvedere
- 24. Pincian Terrace
- ↳ Galleria Borghese Sculpture Room · interior