Rome for Kids: Animal Hunt in the City Center

What to Expect

We will learn many amusing stories about how animals were described in special treatises - the ancient 'Physiologus' and medieval 'Bestiaries' (from Latin 'bestia' - 'beast'). For example, did you know that a crocodile is 'a monster that bitterly weeps always after eating a person'? Or that a python is a huge snake that feeds on livestock. But it doesn't swallow cows, instead it '...coils around them and milks them, taking so much milk that the victims die'?

We will have a special map to find all the 'secret places', as well as plenty of different tasks and riddles. After each completed task, the child receives a sticker with an image of an animal, and all the animal pictures are reproductions of medieval images from real 'Bestiaries'. But the main goal of this walk will be to make the complex millennia-old history of Rome more fun, interesting, and visual. Therefore, we will look at all the sights in the center through the prism of zoology!

We will definitely see the fountains in Piazza Navona, the Pantheon and its surroundings, walk through the streets of the ghetto, visit the little island on the Tiber, then climb to the Capitoline Hill, and end the walk with a visit to three fountains - Trevi, as well as the immortal works of Bernini - the Triton and Bees fountains in Piazza Barberini.