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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