Rome Through the Mist

<p> Join Joe Gartman culture columnist for <I>Italia! Magazine</I> on a journey among 80 of Rome's celebrated fountains and find a more intimate way of experiencing the Eternal City. On foot with book in hand or simply in imagination each chapter takes readers on a vivid walk enhanced with colorful revealing photographs of Roman life. Every fountain in Rome tells a story and every story is about Rome: her history her legends and her extraordinary people--poets and popes artists and models architects and emperors saints and sinners. Every street piazza wall and garden that contains a fountain has a past worth knowing.</p><p> Discover the paths in this book with 15 different turn-by-turn walking tours 17 maps and 181 full-color photos. Journey from Trevi's torrents to the Naiad's naughty nymphs and from the quiet basins in Piazza San Simeone to Bernini's mighty Four Rivers in Piazza Navona; or perhaps find a secret fountain where tourists rarely go and listen to the voices of the waters.</p>