Quick overview: We begin with a full account of the changes that occurred throughout the centuries to the present day square of the Spanish Steps. We then arrive at the Trevi Fountain after a brief stop in front of the Propaganda Fide building which captures the rivalry between Bernini and Borromini, the two great architects of the baroque period. Following an elaborate explanation of the Trevi Fountain's construction and the symbols within it, we reach Hadrian's Temple otherwise known as the Pantheon. Here we will remain at length, because there never can be enough hours to recount the many stories contained within this leviathan. At the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva we stop to admire Bernini's elephant sculpture and Michelangelo's splendid but oddly enough unknown statue of Christ Bearing the Cross. We cross Piazza Sant'Eustachio and go through to Piazza Navona where you'll receive a complete description of the piazza and its legends, the lake festivals held by the nobles in the 1700's and the divinities of the four rivers. Finally, to Piazza Campidoglio where only after you've been astonished by its beauty and the perfection attained by Michelangelo, will we delight you with Rome's most beautiful night-time view, which till then we'll keep our secret.

Some themes of the tour: Numerous artists from the 1700's onwards arrived in Rome to quench their thirst for art. They came to enjoy the colours and flavours of this city, but above all to enlighten their spirit and be inspired by the great creations of the Renaissance and Baroque period. In the same way Bernini impressed his impetus and dreams in the vivacity of his fountains, so too did Michelangelo express his sense of harmony and contrasts in the perfection of Piazza Campidoglio and in the suffering beauty of Christ bearing the Cross in the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. Likewise did Borromini infuse his charge of mysticism into the Arabic spirals of the dome of the church of Saint'Ivo and so too Salvi who injected his passion for the vital power of water into the play of movement and sound that characterises the Trevi Fountain. These were artists who entered into communication with masters from other times, rediscovering each other despite the lapse in time. They were artists in search of themselves, eager to find that sense of the flux of time and who found legends, spaces, colours and forms. We will follow in the footsteps of Shelley, Byron, Keats, Goethe and Twain to ponder over the same masterpieces of the Renaissance and the Baroque period, that made them, as they do us now, daydream of past times.