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City Walk:
Centro Storico
START LARGO DI TORRE ARGENTINA
END PALAZZO FARNESE
LENGTH 1.5KM; THREE HOURS
Follow this tour through Rome's tightly packed historical centre and even without trying you'll come
across some of the city's best-known sights.
Start off in
Largo di Torre Argentina
(
Click here
), a busy square set around the ruins of four
Republic-era temples and the site of Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC. From here it's a short walk
up Via dei Cestari, past Bernini's much-loved
13th-century
Chiesa di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
(
Click here
), Rome's only Gothic church.
