Rome self-guided walking tours

Which walk is for you?

• Rome After Dark. Popes, Prisons and the Executioner’s Bridge. 10 stops, about 85 minutes, 2.4 km (1.5 mi). Carries a content advisory.
• Ancient Rome from the Outside: Colosseum to Circus Maximus. Told entirely from outside the paid archaeological park, with no entry and no ticket: a tyrant’s lake, a battle at a bridge, the emperors’ forums, a prison under the Capitol, Caesar’s pyre, the cliff of the traitors and the valley of the chariots. 10 stops, about 95 minutes, 3.4 km (2.1 mi). Carries a content advisory.
• The Heart of Rome: From Caesar’s Murder to the Spanish Steps. A murdered dictator, a statue that mocked popes, a stadium turned square, a temple that kept another man’s name, a scientist made to kneel, a two-thousand-year-old aqueduct and a poet who asked for no name, from Largo Argentina to the Spanish Steps. 9 stops, about 85 minutes, 2.9 km (1.8 mi). Carries a content advisory.

Where each tour starts

• Rome After Dark: starts at Fontana delle Tartarughe, ends at Ponte Sant’Angelo.
• Ancient Rome from the Outside: starts at Colosseo, ends at Circo Massimo.
• The Heart of Rome: starts at Curia di Pompeo, ends at Piazza di Spagna.

Each tour page explains how to find its start, with directions from the nearest public transport.