Vicus Caprarius - the City of Water

Vicus Caprarius - the City of Water

Discover the most evocative archaeological findings above and under the city of Rome.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Rome Italy

The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini and several others. 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.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Fontana della Barcaccia, Piazza di Spagna, Rome Italy

The Fontana della Barcaccia (Fountain of the Boat; Italian pronunciation: [barˈkattʃa]) is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect a fountain in every major piazza in Rome. The fountain was completed between 1627 and 1629 by Pietro possibly along with the help of his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini, especially after his father's death in August 29, 1629.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Spanish Steps, Piazza di Spagna, 00187 Rome Italy

The Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, 00187 Rome Italy

Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's family. This fountain should be distinguished from the nearby Fontana dei Tritoni (Fountain of the Tritons) by Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri in Piazza Bocca della Verità which features two Tritons.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Vicus Caprarius – the City of Water, Vicolo del Puttarello 25, 00187 Rome Italy

The Trevi Fountain is famous worldwide. Less renown is the fascinating archaeological stratification that extends beneath the Trevi district, of which the underground archaeological area of Vicus Caprarius – the City of Water is a evocative example.

Duration: 2 hours