Itineraries, practical tips, and neighborhood guides to plan your trip to Rome.
In Rome, it is forbidden to bathe in the fountains or sit on certain monuments, dress covering shoulders an...
At the Vatican you need appropriate dress: sleeveless or low-cut garments, shorts above the knee, miniskirt...
Aperitivo is Rome's end-of-day ritual: a drink, something to nibble and an hour or two of conversation befo...
Assisi, the town of St Francis, lies in Umbria about two hours by train from Rome: it can be done in a day,...
You can see the pope in Rome for free in two ways: the Wednesday general audience, for which you need a fre...
The Aventine is the most peaceful of Rome's seven hills. There are no queues or souvenir shops here: just s...
In the 17th century two men gave the Rome we visit today its face: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, a sculptor, archit...
In Rome not everything needs booking, but a few sites cannot be visited without a ticket bought in advance:...
Rome is not only a city of big brands: a few streets from Via dei Condotti, craftsmen's workshops, vintage ...
The hop-on hop-off sightseeing bus links Rome's main sights in about 1 hour 45 minutes, without walking. It...
In Rome, coffee is a ritual taken at the bar: you drink it standing up, in two minutes, several times a day...
Between the Tiber and Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the rione of Regola is one of the easiest districts of Ro...
Rome is Caravaggio's city: he lived here from 1592 to about 1606, painted his greatest masterpieces here, a...
The Castelli Romani are about fifteen towns perched on the Alban Hills, an ancient volcano south-east of Ro...
The Caelian is the hill almost every visitor sees from the Colosseum without climbing it. Ten minutes' walk...
Civitavecchia is Rome's cruise port, about 80 km from the capital by road and 62 km by rail. The ship docks...
Rome is not only about monuments: in the evening the city has a real musical life, with a historic opera ho...
In Rome most churches are free and hold masterpieces by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini or Borromini. Thi...
Rome forgives little improvisation: several sites require a booking, others close on a fixed day, and harml...
Many travellers see nothing of Esquilino but the concourse of Termini station before heading off to the Col...
Before Rome came to dominate Italy, the centre of the peninsula belonged to the Etruscans, a people of merc...
Rome easily fills a week, but once the big sights are done, the surroundings offer very different days: Ren...
North of Piazza del Popolo, Flaminio and Parioli make up the residential, modern side of Rome: large villas...
Rome has several hundred fountains, some of them Baroque masterpieces and others simple spouts where you fi...
