Rome City Guide. Pilot Guides
Description
Estelle Bingham starts her trip to Rome touring the ancient Forum in this Pilot Guides episode. She goes on to taste Italian espresso, make Roman pizza, visit Michelangelo's Piazza Campidoglio, tour the museums flanking the piazza, admire the Coliseum, and see Santa Maria, the city's oldest church. Other attractions include a mass at St. Peters, the Spanish Steps where poet John Keats died, the Piazza Navona, the private art collection at Villa Borghese, and the iconic balcony from which Mussolini addressed the crowds. Estelle fits in day trips to Anzio, site of a famous Allied landing and World War II victory, and a duck derby in Tuscany before ending her trip at the Pantheon.
Runtime
51 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2003
Database
Films on Demand
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