Map guide Easy
Preview — Centro Storico Map
Navona, the Pantheon and the Trevi, free and unabridged — three of the nineteen.
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Italy
Rome
Twenty-eight centuries stacked in three square kilometres. Emperors' temples hold up church walls, fountains run on aqueducts from 19 BC, and the best of it — squares, ruins, views — costs nothing but the walk.
Tours in Rome
Buy the map guide, a treasure hunt, or both. Each is a single payment. The free samples open with no payment and no account — start there if you would rather read us before you pay.
Map guides
Map guide Easy
Rome Essentials
Nineteen stops from the Colosseum to the Vatican and on to Trastevere — ruins, churches, museums, viewpoints, a market — on one filterable map.
See the tour€9.90
Treasure hunts
Treasure hunt Easy
Preview — Mini Treasure Hunt
Two riddles in the Trevi quarter. Shadows of the Caesars has seven more, all different.
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Treasure hunt Moderate
Shadows of the Caesars
Seven riddles from the Pantheon to the Capitoline, about two hours on foot.
See the tour€6.90
What the Rome guide covers
- Written in
- English and French
- Narrated in
- Not recorded yet — the guide is text
- Free to enter
- 14 of 19 stops
- What is on the map
- food & drink, landmarks, museums, viewpoints and churches & monasteries
The map
- Food & drink
- Landmarks
- Museums
- Viewpoints
- Churches & monasteries
Every stop on the Rome map
19 places, each with its own page giving the address, the opening hours and what a ticket gets you. Free to read even if you never buy anything.
- Campo de' FioriFree
Morning market, evening bar terrace, and Giordano Bruno watching the Vatican.
- Capitoline HillFree
Michelangelo's star-paved piazza atop Rome's sacred hill.
- Castel Sant'AngeloTicketed
Hadrian's tomb turned papal fortress, with an angel on the roof.
- ColosseumTicketed
The arena for fifty thousand that opened with a hundred days of games in AD 80.
- Largo di Torre ArgentinaFree
Four sunken temples, a cat sanctuary, and the spot where Caesar fell.
- PantheonTicketed
A perfect Roman dome, open to the sky for nineteen centuries.
- Piazza NavonaFree
A Baroque square that is secretly Domitian's running track.
- Piazza VeneziaFree
A mountain of Brescian marble standing over one unnamed soldier.
- Piazza del PopoloFree
Rome's front door, with a pharaoh's obelisk inside the northern gate.
- Pincio TerraceFree
The balustrade where Rome watches the sun set behind St. Peter's.
- Portico of OctaviaFree
Augustus's monument to his sister, a fish market, and the Ghetto's hardest date.
- Roman ForumTicketed
The valley where Rome ran the world — and still leaves flowers for Caesar.
- Santa Maria in TrastevereFree
Golden mosaics over the piazza where an oil spring foretold Christ.
- Spanish StepsFree
A hundred and thirty-five steps of French money with a Spanish name.
- St. Peter's BasilicaFree
The world's largest church by interior area, free to enter, with its rivals measured out on the floor.
- St. Peter's SquareFree
Bernini's stone embrace — 284 columns that vanish into one.
- Trevi FountainFree
A palace wall bursting into water, fed by an aqueduct from 19 BC.
- Turtle FountainFree
Four bronze boys boosting tortoises into a basin — Bernini's touch, says Rome.
- Vatican MuseumsTicketed
Seven kilometres of galleries, one ceiling, and the statue that started it all in 1506.
Questions about Rome
- How much does the Rome guide cost?
- The Rome city pass is €9.90 and lasts a year. Each treasure hunt is bought separately at €6.90 and lasts 180 days. There is no subscription and nothing renews.
- Do I need to book a time or meet a guide?
- No. Nobody is meeting you, and nothing starts at a fixed time. You buy it, it opens on your phone, and you walk it whenever you happen to be in Rome: before breakfast, after dinner, or spread over three separate days.
- What is the difference between the map guide and a treasure hunt?
- The map guide shows you every stop from the start and tells you about each one as you arrive. It is a guidebook you walk. A treasure hunt hides the stops behind riddles: you are told what to look for, not where it is, and each find is checked before the next riddle appears.
- Is admission to the museums and monuments included?
- No. What you buy is the guide, not the tickets. The pages tell you what each place charges and where booking ahead is the difference between walking in and going home. The treasure hunts are a separate case: they are built entirely around places that cost nothing to reach.
- What language is the Rome guide in?
- Rome is written in English and French. Every stop, every tip and every riddle is translated in full, not machine-translated from English. The narration for this city has not been recorded yet, so the guide is text for now.
- What is actually on the Rome map?
- 19 places: food & drink, landmarks, museums, viewpoints and churches & monasteries. Each has its own page on this site with the address, the opening hours and what a ticket gets you, and the guide adds the story behind it and the tip only somebody who has stood there would write down.