Optimize your time and delight your soul visiting the two most attractive resources of Rome, leading you from an epoch to another one, many differents pieces of a great puzzle built long time ago (2800 years) and actually leaving people without words, the Trevi fountain and the Pantheon.
If you throw a coin in Trevi fountain, you will come back to Rome guaranteed, the legend says. How many people visits every day the trevi Fountain is an answer a Rome limo driver can give to his groups doing a tour of Rome.
The name Trevi is the crossing of three roads (tre vie) marking the terminal point of the Aqua Virgo (Italian: Acqua Vergine), one of the ancient aqueducts bringing water to the Eternal City.
In 19 BC, the ancient scholars wrote that with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water only 14 miles (22 km) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's travertine facade). This Aqua Virgo led the water directly into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for hundred years, and you can't believe it ,but it serves Rome water supply still today.
After the visit to the Trevi fountain in the morning you can spend the afternoon day tour in Rome visiting the ancient Rome starting from the Pantheon.
The original Pantheon was a rectangular temple built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, as part of a district renewal plan in 27-25 BC. What tourists see as they relax in front in the Piazza della Rotonda is radically different than that original temple. Hadrian rebuilt the structure in the second century AD; maker's stamps in the bricks allow us to date his restoration between 118 and 125 AD. Still, the inscription on the architrave attributes the construction to Agrippa during his third councilship.The Pantheon is a church of Rome today and contains the tombs of Rafael and of several Italian Kings who unified Italy in the nineteen century.
The harmonious shape of the Pantheon from the floor to the top of the dome is exactly equal to its diameter. Adytons and coffers reduce the weight of the dome and it becomes thinner approaching the oculus, the hole in the top of the dome used as a source for the inside.
It rains inside the pantheon, but the pavement drains the water.
Those columns were brought from Egypt and transported on the Nile to Alexandria, and finally to the port of Ostia across the Mediterranean sea.
Your full day Rome shore excursion will end at the port of Civitavecchia or to the airports of Rome.
