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[quote=Anonymous]I disagree with PP and think you can't see a ton by walking around, and/or can combine with a short cab ride.  Rome is actually one of my favorite cities for this, as there's a ton or stuff that is quite close together and basically every corner you turn has some super famous church/piazza/art/roman history. 
 
For instance, you could do this easily in one day walking tour, stopping for lunch and gelato and/or pastries:

Trevii Fountain 
Pantheon
Piazza Navona
walk along the river and cross the bridge
Castel Gandolfo, which has beautiful views of the city
There are also a number of churches along that walk that you can pop into if you want to see the art/culture.  The big church at Piazza Navona is definitely worth going into.

Rick Steve's has a walking tour that we used -- there might be a better one though, I didn't think it was perfect for the purpose.

For the second day, you could do something like the Colosseum and Roman Forum/Palatine Hill.  There is a church near there called San Pietro in Vinculo that has the famous Michelangelo statute of Moses.  Tickets for Colosseum sell out early so buy those in advance if you want to do this.  Also relatively close to that is a main street with the fancy shopping stores in Rome, if you're the kind of family that wants to do that.

ALternatively, you could get an early morning or late evening skip the line Vatican tour for your second day.  If you do that, I would do Castel Gandolfo on that day because it's close/on the same side of the river, and add in something else to the first day -- you could do Roman forum/Palatine Hill as part of the first day (maybe take a cab between Piazza Navona, where there are tons of cabs and Palatine Hill).  Campo Fiore is another option for that first day, but note that the market is day/time dependent--I kept missing it.  There are some really nice pastry shops and pizza takout places between Piazza Navona and Campo Fiore.  THere are also excellent pastry places in the neighborhood around the vatican.

For what it's worth, my least favorite touristy area was the Trevi Fountain.  It's very crowded and feels like the kind of place you are apt to get pickpocketed.  The food places near there were overpriced and not as good (although we had good gelato there, but I think it was double what we paid at Piazza Navona, which you would also think would be really touristy, but somehow felt much more like there were actual Italians just hanging out there.)

I appreicate the idea that sometimes you want to spend a week or two in a city and really soak it up, and for other trips you may just be using hte city as a base to fly into/out of and want to just have a day where you see some stuff without trying to see everything.  We did that in Paris, where we just saw the Eiffel TOwer, Arc d' Triumphe, and had two meals.  [/quote]

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