Itineraries, practical tips, and neighborhood guides to plan your trip to Rome.
Rome is not an easy city for cycling: cobblestones (sampietrini), dense traffic, hills and patchy bike lane...
Rome is an old city, cobbled and hilly, but you can visit it by wheelchair or with a stroller if you choose...
The Colosseum is only one part of ancient Rome. Around it, dozens of sites tell a thousand years of Roman h...
Spring is, with autumn, the best season to visit Rome: the days get longer, terraces reopen, the parks turn...
Four days is the right pace for seeing Rome without rushing: enough for the great ancient sites, the Vatica...
Five days let you see Rome without rushing: the major sights, a full day outside the city at Tivoli and a m...
Rome is a city made for couples: squares lit up in the evening, terraces above the rooftops, gardens almost...
Rome in summer means a bright city, long evenings and a dry heat that sets the pace: highs exceed 30°C in J...
Rome in winter is mild, quieter and rainier: lows drop to around 3°C in January and February, frost is rare...
Rome is more than the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain. Behind the great monuments the city hides surprisin...
Rome was built layer upon layer: the ground level of antiquity is sometimes ten metres below today's street...
Rome is best seen from above: domes, bell towers and tiled roofs across seven hills, with St Peter's rising...
San Lorenzo is Rome's student district: a grid of working-class streets behind Termini station, next to La ...
The most useful souvenirs from Rome are not the ones on the stalls around the Colosseum, but what is eaten ...
In Rome you can eat very well standing up, from a paper wrapper or a small cardboard tray, for a few euros....
In Rome a taxi is useful for getting home late, going to the airport with luggage or reaching a neighbourho...
Rome has far fewer public toilets than fountains: you can drink free water almost everywhere, but you need ...
Eating well in Rome is less about one address than a reflex: choosing a real trattoria, away from the touts...
The Trevi and Quirinal neighbourhood stretches between via del Corso, via del Tritone, Piazza Barberini and...
The Tridente is the trident-shaped district that opens out in the north of Rome from Piazza del Popolo, bet...
A dizzy spell under the Colosseum sun, a sore throat mid-trip, an ankle twisted on the cobblestones: in Rom...
Within Rome itself, a car is a handicap: narrow streets, scarce parking and above all a limited traffic zon...
