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For over 2,000 years all roads have led here but for your city breaks to Rome by air might be more effective. There are several flights a day from Ireland, so city breaks to Rome become very flexible for you and your travelling companions.
Let’s start your city breaks to Rome by taking Line A of the Metro underground train system to Spagna – the Spanish Steps, all 138 of them. This attraction and the square at its base get their name from the Spanish Embassy which used to be located nearby. It’s now famous simply for being…..famous, oh and John Keats, that Romantic Poet from the early nineteenth century whom you studied for the Leaving Cert. He died in a house at the bottom of these steps in 1821 aged 25, allegedly as much from a broken heart as from tuberculosis. There’s a museum here to both him and another English poet, Shelley (who died a year later) and with your inside Leaving Cert knowledge on them you might like to give part of the lecture yourself. Please note that the paddling pool/ fountain at the bottom of the steps is NOT the Trevi Fountain – somewhere we shall visit later this afternoon.
From here head south and make sure to bring all your plastic – we’re going shopping! Among the main luxury and designer shopping streets in the Eternal City are Via dei Condotti, Via Borgognona and Via Frattina – all parallel to each other. Here you will find Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Max & Co, Prada, Dior, Salvatore Ferrragamo, COS, Gianvito Rossi, Fratelli Rossetti, Gente Roma and more. Many of these shops will have security guards at the door or you may find you have to press a buzzer to get into the premises; the Italians go in for ‘La Bella Figura’ – a way of living whereby a person presents themselves in the way they look, dress, move and act in order to give the very best possible impression of themselves without being pretentious or arrogant. There are no rules to it as such – but you will know it instantly when you see it.
If you’ve any money left after the lotto-busting spree, find yourselves a nice café and stop off for lunch. While you’re resting get out your paper map (we can provide you with one if you book a package with us) or iphone Google maps and see how close you are to the Trevi Fountain: it’s due south of the designer shopping streets. After lunch let’s head for there. It was built over a thirty year period from 1732 by Nicola Salvi on to the back end of a Renaissance palace and is the terminus of one of many aqueducts spilling into ancient Rome. It is the largest fountain in Rome and the pool of water represents the ocean with Neptune, the Roman God of the Sea, at its centre. You’ll see hoards of tourists tossing coins into the fountain, as an offering to the gods with the hope that they’ll return to Rome one day, so……….’when in Rome do as the Romans do’ in which case you won’t throw money in, as they don’t either. ©ArrowTours
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