Rome was our final destination on the tour, and what a great city to end it in! We had a long bus ride from Venice to get there, but as soon as we arrived we stretched our legs and did a walking tour with Mariangela. We saw the Piazza del Popolo, Piazza di Spagna and the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain, the Panthenon, the baroque Piazza Navona and Bernini’s Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi (fountain of 4 rivers). It was a good walk and we learnt some interesting things but we could have spent more time at each site, especially the Trevi fountain and Spanish steps. At the foot of the Spanish Steps is the Barcaccia sinking boat fountain and apparently if you drink the water you will fall pregnant. I don’t know what the Romans put
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