Rome: Tessera Audio Guide

Rome is best seen on foot — and best understood with someone telling you what you're looking at. Tessera is that someone, in your pocket, with no signal needed. 125 short stories cover the whole historic centre, from the Vatican to Monti. Each one is written to be heard on the spot: look up, listen, and the stones start to make sense. Why the Pantheon's dome has never cracked. Who hung rude poems on a battered statue for five hundred years. Where Bernini and Borromini fought their rivalry in marble, a few metres apart. SIX NEIGHBOURHOODS • Ancient Rome — the Colosseum from outside, the Circus Maximus, the Baths of Caracalla • Pantheon & Navona — baroque squares around the best-preserved building of antiquity • Trevi & the Spanish Steps — fountains, stairways and the streets down to Piazza del Popolo • Vatican — St Peter's Square and Castel Sant'Angelo • Trastevere & the Ghetto —…