Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti
Piazza di Spagna
metro -  Linea A Spagna

Designed in the early 18th century by Francesco de Sanctis, the Spanish Steps are one of the longest and widest staircases in Europe with 138 steps leading up to the French church of Trinità dei Monti.
The steps were named after a Spanish ambassador that lived nearby.
At the base of the stairs in the Piazza di Spagna is the Fontana della Barcaccia ( Fountain of the old Boat), built around 1627 by Pietro Bernini and his son Gianlorenzo.

The stairs are always crowded with locals and tourists enjoying the view of the piazza and the streets that lead onto it.
Supposedly a fine can be issued if caught eating on the steps as it is forbidden by Roman urban regulations.

Trevi Fountain

Piazza di Trevi
bus #40 or #64 from Termini

In 1732 Pope Urban commissioned Nicola Salvi to create the largest Baroque fountain in Rome. The central figure of the fountain is Neptune riding a shell chariot pulled by two seahorses.
Legend tells that by throwing a coin over your shoulder into the fountain, you will return to Rome.
The fountain is famous for the movies 'Three coins in a fountain','Roman Holiday' and Federico Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita'.

Piazza Navona & Piazza del Popolo

Piazza Navona

The oval square was created in the 15th century, built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian from the 1st century AD.

In the center, in front of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Borromini, is the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) commissioned by Pope Innocent X, designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini and completed in 1651. 

The four figures represent the rivers Nile, Ganges, Danube and Rio della Plato.

At the southern end is the Fontana del Moro and at the northern end is the Fontana del Nettuno both designed by Giacomo della Porta in the 16th century. 

The statues of Neptune surrounded by nymphs were added to the northern fountain in the 19th century and Bernini added to the other statue of the Moor wrestling a dolphin in 1673.

Piazza del Popolo

Piazza del Popolo (People's Square) is a large oval square that holds three churches and once was a place for public executions until the 19th century.

Inside the Porta del Popolo, in the Aurelian Wall, is the Renaissance church of Santa Maria del Popolo.

At either side of the entrance to Via del Corso, which runs through the heart of Rome, is Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto.

The square was redesigned in the 16th century with stairs to the Pincian Hill of ancient Rome and the Villa Borghese gardens.

In the centre of the square is a fountain, designed around an Egyptian obelisk of Rameses II, brought to Rome in 10 b.c. for The Circus Maximus and moved to the piazza in the 16th century on the request of Pope Sixtus V.

The Pantheon

Piazza della Rotunda

The Pantheon still holds the record as the World's largest unreinforced dome.
Named from Latin meaning 'every god' it was first commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the ancient Roman gods and reconstructed by Emperor Hadrian around 126 AD into a circular building with an occulus in the dome's ceiling.
During the 7th century the Pantheon was consecrated as a Roman Catholic church and has been used during Renaissance times as a burial tomb for Raphael and Annibale Carracci.
Later two Italian Kings, Vittoria Emanuele II and Umberto I were buried here.