Rome's Oddest Fountains & Best Street Food in One Walk. (You Are going To Love The Jewish Pizza)

This itinerary starts right here from Piazza Garibaldi where every day at noon they fire a cannon. It's a tradition that's been going on for almost 200 years. Originally it started from Castel Sant'Angelo and it was done in an effort to synchronize all of the clocks and bells throughout the city. Today the tradition continues right here from Piazza Garibaldi. So get up to Piazza Garibaldi before noon so you can start this itinerary off with a bang. Piazza Garibaldi is where this self-guided GPS walking tour starts and from here we're going to go visit many of Rome's most famous fountains. Rome has over 2,000 fountains. We're some of my favorite fountains in Rome and we're going to grab some street food along the way because I find the fountains are perfect places to eat street food. Throughout Rome there are very few benches, very few places to sit down, but at the fountains many of them offer steps, places to sit down, relax, enjoy some street food, enjoy some great views, the atmosphere. It's a perfect place for street food in my opinion and that's what this video is all about street food and fountains. To make it super easy for you to follow along I'm going to be using an app called Komoot. I'm going to put a link to the GPS route in the description of the video. You can upload that and then it'll show you turn by turn where to go. The app Komoot is super user-friendly and I think you'll find it super helpful as you follow along if you're in Rome and you want to do this. It'll take you starting here at Piazza Garibaldi through the city past great sites, great fountains, great street food. It's going to be a lot of fun. I've got lots to share with you. Let's get started. The first fountain we're going to visit is La Fontana dell'Acqua Paola also known as the big fountain. This is one of my favorite fountains and it's located just a short walk from Piazza Garibaldi. This fountain is absolutely massive and it has an elevated location so not only are you visiting a fountain you're also going to get a great view over the city of Rome. Ideal any time of day. In the evenings it's quite romantic so if you had the opportunity to head back up in the evening but again any time of day it's quite spectacular. The fountain was originally built in the early 1600s from scavenged ancient Roman ruins so there's a lot more to this fountain than initially meets the eye. I promise you great street food and our first stop is one of our favorite restaurants called Let's head there now. If you saw the cannon go off you're probably arriving here sometime afternoon and this place opens up at noon. It's called Checco e Caratiere. It's a great restaurant really nice food but here at the back door they sell the food at a substantial discount. They turn gourmet food into street food. So what we're going to order today is one of the pastas. We're but I suggest you get the fried artichokes or the fried cod. Both are great. Anything from here is awesome. Anything you get from here head out to the fountain and enjoy it. La Fontana di Santa Maria in Trastevere is considered the oldest fountain in Rome some dating it back to the 8th century and further. It makes a great place to just sit down relax enjoy the square and enjoy some awesome street food. So we just went to Checco picked up some food and we're going to enjoy it on the set. We'll show you what we got. What do you got in there? Oh look at that. Look at this here. We got the fried artichokes. These are awesome by the way. These are fried artichokes. Now they're like battered but these are like so good. And we haven't had anything else like this in Rome. We've had a different style fried artichoke but not this time. For main course we got a pasta this time. We got the amatriciana pasta and that's a big serving of it. I don't know if you can tell. They give you the spoons and the forks and stuff the napkins so you can enjoy it here you know anywhere. So here's the look at the pasta. Look at that stuff. It's a big old plate of it. If you're heading to Rome be sure to check out our travel guide. It's all about Rome how to help you have a great time in Rome. I'll leave a discount code in the description of the video where you can pick it up for right around $25. Now we're heading off to the Jewish quarter to get a very unique pastry called Jewish pizza. Baccione is Rome's most famous Jewish bakery. At times you have to stand in quite a long line to get in but it's well worth it. Everything from here is awesome but what I love is the Jewish pizza. About 100 yards away is La Fontana della Tartarughe, the turtle fountain where we can go and enjoy the pizza. So over in the Jewish quarter there's a place called Baccione where you get these this is called Jewish pizza. I don't know how well you can see it but the Jewish pizza it may not look super impressive. I've talked about this in other videos but this stuff is some of my favorites. One of my favorite pastries. They call it pizza. It's more like a pastry. So good. There's so many good things from there whether you get this or some one of their other pastries. You can come out here to the turtle fountain. You can't really sit down. I mean this is you can kind of sit down here but you can kind of sit down here and just enjoy the fountain. Enjoy the Jewish pizza. It doesn't get better than this. Here's an interesting fact about the turtle fountain. The turtle fountain was built in 1581 but the turtles were not added until about 1658 by Bernini and in 1906, 1944, and 1981 the turtles were stolen. Each time they were recovered but they were stolen. So at around 1980-ish they moved those into the Capitoline Museum where you can see them today. The turtles on the fountain are actually replicas. Are you ready for the best panino in all of Rome? Let's head there now. Now it's time to pick up a couple of panini and take them over to Piazza Farnese. My favorites are the mortadella and the prosciutto crudo with mozzarella but every sandwich I've eaten there has been wonderful. The best in Rome in my opinion. So we're over here at the Forno in Campo dei Fiori. Again these are the best panini. The sandwiches that I've found in all of Rome. We love them. Every time we come by here we grab one and then we're right here in Piazza Farnese. There's a beautiful square right next to Campo dei Fiori. Campo dei Fiori is chaotic. A lot of vendors, a lot of stuff going on there all day long. Just 20, 30, 40 meters away is Piazza Farnese. Much more relaxing. You can come down here and enjoy a panino right at the fountain. You know it's the good life. I want to show you this sandwich real quick. I don't know how well you can see it but all it is is pizza bianca with mortadella in the middle. Very simple but it's amazing how good this can taste. Just those two ingredients. They're big. This was three and a half euros. Just phenomenal. Just phenomenal. First off I just wanted to show you how beautiful these fountains are at night time. They're absolutely stunning. We're here in Piazza Farnese. These are the fountains of Piazza Farnese. There are two of them. One on each end. This is in a very important square. It's right next to the Palazzo Farnese. One of the most important buildings. Today it's the French embassy and then another really interesting thing. These tubs. These are absolutely gorgeous. These are huge. These come from the Baths of Cartacalla from the second or third century. Just absolutely stunning. Great place to hang out and enjoy some street food. Don't forget to like, leave a comment, or subscribe to the channel. Our channel is all about Rome. I need to get to 50,000 subscribers by June. I've got six months. My wife says my YouTube dreams may become to an end if I don't. That's how we survive as YouTubers. We need subscribers. But of course we want you to enjoy our content and hopefully you do. Now let's head over to Piazza Navona. It doesn't have just one fountain. Not two. But it has three fountains. One of our favorite squares to come out to and just enjoy some food. Enjoy the atmosphere is Piazza Navona. It's absolutely incredible. And they have these fountains here. You can just sit down. They're kind of like built-in benches. You can sit down and just around the corner there's two great places for you to choose from. Just down the road maybe a three, four, five minute walk at most. You've got Frigidarium. One of my favorite gelaterias. And it's great to grab a gelato. Head back out to the square and enjoy it there. Or if you're in the mood for Tiramisu. Some of the best Tiramisu in Rome is sold right around the corner. Just a two minute, three minute walk from Piazza Navona. Which is two sizes. Sometimes you got to wait in a long line to get it. But uh most people say it's worth it. So give it a try. I thought it was great. I thought it was a little bit rich for my taste. But very good. From here it's just a five minute walk over to the Pantheon. Let's head there now. Once you make it over to the Pantheon you'll notice there's a huge fountain right in the center with the obelisk on top. Well that obelisk is actually older than the Pantheon. That dates back more than 3,000 years. All the way to Rameses. One of my favorite places to eat lunch in Rome is right there on those steps of that fountain. Lately they've been cracking down on people. Telling them they can't eat on those steps. It just depends when you're there. Hopefully when you go there if you do that you'll be able to sit down and enjoy lunch. But anyway there are three great choices right in that area. The first is L'Antico Vinaio. That's the most popular the probably the most famous sandwich place in Rome. It started in Florence actually. But now there's three or four locations in Rome. The most popular location is right there by the Pantheon. Unfortunately you may have to wait in quite a line to get a sandwich. Hey are these are these sandwiches that good? Sorry? You speak Italian? Yeah. Are they worth the wait? The sandwiches are quite large so sharing them is a good idea if you're not super hungry. Also there's a little salami shop right there called L'Antico Salumeria which also makes fantastic sandwiches. They sell them by the weight so it just depends how big your sandwich is and how much you're going to have to pay for it. But both of those places they're plus or minus 10 euros for a sandwich. You guys speak English? No. Are they good? Are they good? Another great option if you're not in the mood for a sandwich or something substantial maybe you just want a cup of coffee a cappuccino or something like that there is Casa del Cafe right there right off the square of the Pantheon. It's one of Rome's most famous coffee houses. Jump in there and I think you're going to love it if you like coffee. Now it's time to head over to Rome's most popular fountain Trevi Fountain. It's about a 10 minute walk from the Pantheon. While we're visiting the Trevi Fountain it's not the best fountain to enjoy street food or any food for that matter. It's just too crowded no real place to sit down and so yeah you can get food around the area take it somewhere else but probably not at Trevi Fountain. Now we're going to head over to a very unique fountain located right in front of the Spanish Steps. At the base of the Spanish Steps there's a fountain known as the Ugly Boat Fountain. Well that fountain was actually inspired by a flood that took place on Christmas day in 1598. The water is raised so high that a boat actually got stranded there. When the when the waters receded there was a boat at that exact location that inspired the building of that fountain and also worth noting that fountain works also as a drinking fountain. On either end of the fountain you can go over and fill up your water bottles. The water tastes great despite it looking like it's fountain water it's actually fresh clean drinkable water. You can't finish this itinerary without showing you one of Rome's most ugly fountains charming but ugly. So right behind me is the statue of the babuino the baboon. Now originally it wasn't known as that it's Salinas which is a mythical creature half goat half man it was later called the statue the baboon because people made fun of it it was kind of so ugly that it just became known as the baboon. Now while it became ugly it also became very popular in fact they eventually renamed the street here that it's on to via del babuino. For those of you that stuck around to the end of the video I really appreciate it. If you're not tired of me and you want to see one more video I just completed a video about a week ago about Trastevere. It's a neighborhood in Rome it's about all the great food great things to do and see while you're in Trastevere. It's the best of Trastevere and that video is coming up right now.