Also known as the Eternal City, Rome is the capital of Italy, its largest city, and home to landmarks like the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and the Trevi Fountain.
This is also where you will find Vatican City, also known as the Holy See. Completely surrounded by the Italian capital, Vatican City is where you can visit St. Peter’s Basilica and see Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
Rome is often called an outdoor museum. But the capital also has dozens of museums to explore, not only in the Centro Storico but beyond the walls. Helping us locate all of these museums and galleries is a new map showing Rome’s museums as they relate to metro stops.
Update, December 2018: Local authorities changed tack and decided NOT to impose an entry fee to the Pantheon. For now.
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This palace in the heart of Rome, where a scene from Roman Holiday was filmed, is worth a detour
Truth is, it was bound to happen. Church officials at Santa Maria in Cosmedin, site of Rome’s “Mouth of Truth” (Bocca della Verita), have decided to charge visitors €2 for the pleasure of taking one (just one!) photo with the ancient sewer cover.
There won’t be a next time. Amatrice has been on my “next time” list for the past two years. We have talked about visiting the town for a Sunday lunch because of its famed amatriciana. But at a distance of approximately two hours from Rome, it was just beyond the range of our driving limits for a…
Yesterday in my post about the earthquake in Central Italy, I mentioned that Italian blogger Paolo Campana had started an initiative for diners and restaurants to raise money for earthquake relief (for Amatrice and the entire affected region) by ordering dishes of amatriciana.
During the wee hours of the morning, an earthquake with a 6.2 magnitude struck central Italy. Italian news reports say the epicenter was near Rieti, about 1.5 hours north of Rome.
Will you be in Rome in August? Here are some reasons to rejoice and lament your stay in the Eternal City during the hottest month of the year.
Italy’s bigger cities, especially Rome, have plenty of churches to please those with morbid fascinations for skulls, skeletons, and saintly relics. Taken together, these churches and their contents provide a sort-of museum feel — creepy but not altogether isolating.
A short profile of Roman artist Rachele del Nevo and her fun art project The Drawing Bike.
While hundreds wait in lines in the harsh sun to get into Saint Peter’s, the Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, also known as the Cathedral of Rome, is practically empty. San Giovanni is the oldest and largest papal basilica in Rome, although it has gone through many reconstructions over the years due to earthquakes,…
In the mornings after I’ve sent the kids off to school and tidied up the house I go down and have my morning cappuccino.
La Pioggia di Petali di Rose, or the Rain of Rose Petals, brings religious Rome and ancient Rome together in a moving and colorful spectacle.
On May 20, 1960, Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Watch “Three Reasons” why this film remains a classic. For more details on where “La Dolce Vita” was filmed, explore this list of Fellini’s film locations from Rome and Rimini.
Before Christianity became the dominant religion of Rome, many people worshipped Mithras, the pagan God depicted here.
Roman hoteliers, who write that Rome’s 25 million annual tourists is only a quarter of the number that go to London, are less concerned about how tourists are affecting the city than how the city is affecting tourists.
The city of Rome was born on April 21, 753 BC. In Italian, it is known as the Natale di Roma—the birthday of Rome.
It all started with David.