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Italy · 80 sights and 206 places to eat and drink, plus 83 bookable excursions, with why each earned a spot.

⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (9.6K)

🌿Villa Gregoriana

Nature

Technically in Tivoli rather than Rome proper, Villa Gregoriana is a steep, lush gorge park where the Aniene River plunges in a spectacular waterfall…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (97K)

🖼️Sistine Chapel

Museum

No amount of prior familiarity with the images prepares you for the moment you walk into the Sistine Chapel and tilt your head back: Michelangelo's ce…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (210K)

🖼️Vatican Museums

Museum

Among the densest concentrations of art in the world, the Vatican Museums wind through papal apartments, sculpture galleries, and map rooms before del…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (507K)

💎Colosseum

Hidden gem

The Colosseum is simply the most consequential sports arena ever built, a 50,000-seat amphitheater of travertine and concrete that hosted gladiatorial…

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🕑 Monday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.3 (10K)

🏛️Trattoria Da Enzo

Landmark

A small, honest Trastevere trattoria with sidewalk tables and a menu of Roman classics including fried artichokes, cacio e pepe, and slow-cooked offal…

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🕑 Monday: 12:00 – 3:00 PM, 6:30 – 10:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$$★ 4.3 (6.5K)

🏛️Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina

Landmark

One of Rome's most celebrated food addresses, part deli, part wine cellar, part restaurant, with counter seats facing shelves of Italian cured meats a…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 11:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (479)

🏛️Rome

Landmark

Rome is one of the few cities on earth where you can turn a street corner and find yourself face-to-face with two thousand years of uninterrupted hist…

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🏅 ⭐ Michelin Star 2026

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (2K)

🌿Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica

Nature

One of the great walks of the ancient world, the Appian Way Regional Park stretches some 16 kilometers south of Rome along a road that Julius Caesar,…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (9.6K)

🖼️Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali

Museum

Trajan's Markets are the ancient world's most strikingly complete commercial complex, a curved six-storey hemicycle of brick built into the Quirinal H…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (11K)

🌿Giardino di Ninfa

Nature

Often described as the most romantic garden in the world, Ninfa lies about 70 kilometers south of Rome in the Pontine hills, where a medieval ghost to…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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★ 4.7 (26K)

💎Giardino degli Aranci

Hidden gem

A small, immaculate garden of bitter orange trees on the Aventine Hill, beloved by Romans for its keyhole view through the Knights of Malta gate that…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (112K)

💎Spanish Steps

Hidden gem

The widest staircase in Europe cascades down from the French church of Trinita dei Monti in 138 travertine steps, each one a perch for someone eating…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.3 (26K)

💎Mouth of Truth

Hidden gem

Set into the portico of the ancient church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, this large marble disc carved with a bearded river god's face has been drawing…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 5:50 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (523K)

💎Trevi Fountain

Hidden gem

The largest Baroque fountain in Rome crashes into its travertine basin with theatrical force, the god Oceanus commanding a triumphal arch of sculpted…

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🕑 Monday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (59K)

🏛️Piazza Venezia

Landmark

The thundering geographic heart of Rome, Piazza Venezia is where every major road in the city converges, dominated by the blinding white marble of the…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

🏅 ⭐ Michelin Star 2026

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (5K)

🌿Colle Oppio and Terme di Traiano Park

Nature

Spread across the Oppian Hill, this leafy public park sits directly above the buried chambers of Nero's Domus Aurea and beside the ruins of Trajan's B…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (934)

🌿Parco del Gianicolo

Nature

The Gianicolo is the hill Romans climb when they want to remember why they live here: the panoramic terrace above Trastevere delivers one of the most…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (183K)

🏛️Saint Peter’s Basilica

Landmark

The largest church in Christendom earns every superlative: Michelangelo's soaring dome, Bernini's bronze baldachin towering over the papal altar, and…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 7:10 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (146K)

🏛️Roman Forum

Landmark

The beating heart of ancient Rome, a mile-long sweep of temples, triumphal arches, and senate buildings that once governed an empire. Included in the…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (8.5K)

🖼️Galleria Doria Pamphilj

Museum

Still owned and lived in by the Doria Pamphilj family, this is the largest privately held art collection in Rome, with over four hundred works lining…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (20K)

🌿The Park of the Aqueducts

Nature

Seven ancient Roman aqueducts march across this vast, wind-swept stretch of the Appian Way Regional Park, their brick arches striding through meadows…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (125K)

💎Piazza del Popolo

Hidden gem

One of Rome's grandest urban set pieces, Piazza del Popolo opens like a theatrical curtain at the northern gate of the old city, its vast oval framed…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (13K)

🗿Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

Monument

Locals call it simply Il Fontanone, the big fountain, and the name is earned: this enormous early Baroque facade of white marble erupts from the Janic…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.7 (4.5K)

🖼️National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia

Museum

The finest Etruscan collection anywhere in the world occupies a Renaissance papal villa whose nymphaeum alone is worth the journey, and yet the museum…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (8.6K)

🌿Valle dell'Aniene Nature Reserve

Nature

Following the Aniene River as it cuts through the northeastern suburbs of Rome, this linear reserve is the city's green lung tucked between apartment…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (287K)

💎Pantheon

Hidden gem

The Pantheon's unremarkable exterior on the Piazza della Rotonda does nothing to prepare you for the interior, where a perfectly proportioned concrete…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (96K)

🌿Villa Borghese

Nature

Rome's most beloved urban park, a 200-acre expanse of formal gardens, a boating lake, and wooded paths enclosing the Galleria Borghese and a small zoo…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (21K)

💎Villa Doria Pamphili

Hidden gem

Rome's largest public park, Villa Doria Pamphili sprawls across nearly 200 hectares on the Gianicolo ridge and is where the city's western neighborhoo…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (6.9K)

🗿Fontana delle Tartarughe

Monument

Tucked into the small, sun-dappled Piazza Mattei in the old Jewish Ghetto, the Fontana delle Tartarughe is one of Rome's most quietly ravishing founta…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (30K)

🖼️Galleria Borghese

Museum

Housed in a 17th-century villa inside the Villa Borghese park, this is arguably the single greatest concentration of Bernini sculpture on earth, with…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.9 (10)

🌅Viewpoint of river Tiberis

Viewpoint

A quiet terrace perch above the Tiber offering an unhurried view of the river as it bends through the city, with the Prati skyline and occasionally th…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (3K)

🌿Riserva Naturale dell'Insugherata

Nature

Tucked into the northern suburbs between the Trionfale and Ottavia neighborhoods, the Insugherata reserve takes its name from the cork oak trees (sugh…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.4 (5K)

🖼️Leonardo Da Vinci Experience Museum

Museum

Step inside a workshop built on the scale of Leonardo's own imagination: this museum fills its rooms with full-size wooden reconstructions of the mach…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 7:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (24K)

💎Piazza del Campidoglio

Hidden gem

Perched atop the Capitoline Hill, this trapezoidal piazza is one of the most perfectly resolved public spaces in Rome, designed by Michelangelo in the…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (218K)

💎Piazza Navona

Hidden gem

Piazza Navona occupies the exact footprint of an ancient Roman stadium and preserves its elongated oval shape after two thousand years, a fact that st…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (111K)

💎Castel Sant'Angelo

Hidden gem

Rising in a massive drum of brick and travertine above the Tiber, Castel Sant'Angelo has been a mausoleum, a fortress, a prison, and a papal refuge ac…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.5 (13K)

🖼️MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art

Museum

Rome's premier contemporary art institution lives inside Zaha Hadid's audacious 2010 building, a swooping concrete landscape where the architecture is…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (3.5K)

🖼️Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps

Museum

A fifteenth-century cardinal's palazzo a short walk from Piazza Navona now holds some of the most important ancient sculpture in Italy, displayed with…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (19K)

🖼️Capitoline Museums

Museum

The world's oldest public museums, open since 1471, the Capitoline Museums house some of Rome's most important ancient sculpture across two Renaissanc…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.3 (3.6K)

🌿Veio Regional Park

Nature

Just north of Rome's ring road lies a landscape that most Romans treat as their private countryside: the Veio Regional Park, a rolling expanse of volc…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (77K)

🗿Monument to Victor Emmanuel II

Monument

Romans call it the Vittoriano, or less affectionately the Typewriter or the Wedding Cake, and the sheer white Brescian marble bulk of it at the foot o…

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🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (2K)

💎Aurelian Walls

Hidden gem

Stretching nearly 19 kilometers around Rome, the Aurelian Walls are among the best-preserved ancient fortifications in the world and yet feel almost s…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (57K)

🏛️Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major

Landmark

The largest of Rome's four papal basilicas dedicated to the Virgin Mary has been in continuous use since the fifth century, and walking its nave, past…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 6:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.5 (5K)

🖼️National Roman Museum, Baths of Diocletian

Museum

The sheer scale of these ruins stops you cold: built around 300 AD to bathe up to three thousand Romans at once, the complex is the largest of the anc…

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🏛️Campo de' Fiori

Landmark

By morning Campo de' Fiori is a working Roman market, stalls loaded with blood oranges, artichokes, fresh herbs, and cheeses under white awnings while…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (6.4K)

🖼️National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Museum

For travelers who want to understand what ancient Rome actually looked like, this museum delivers with a clarity few others match: the frescoed rooms…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.9 (3.3K)

🖼️Galleria Colonna

Museum

One of Rome's great private picture galleries, the Galleria Colonna has been in the same aristocratic family since the Middle Ages and opens to the pu…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (3.9K)

🌿Riserva Naturale di Decima Malafede

Nature

Rome's largest protected natural area stretches across more than 6,000 hectares of coastal plain south of the city, encompassing ancient oak woodland,…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (2.7K)

🌿Riserva Naturale Regionale Nazzano Tevere-Farfa

Nature

About 50 kilometers north of Rome, where the Tiber broadens into a lake-like reservoir and the Farfa tributary joins it, this wetland reserve is one o…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (3.3K)

🖼️Villa Farnesina

Museum

One of Rome's most exquisite and least crowded Renaissance experiences, the Villa Farnesina is a 16th-century suburban villa on the banks of the Tiber…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 1:15 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (5.3K)

🌿Riserva Naturale della Marcigliana

Nature

A sweep of rolling Campagna farmland north of Rome, the Marcigliana reserve feels startlingly rural for a place reachable by city bus, its hedgerow-li…

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💎Centro Storico

Hidden gem

The Centro Storico is the compressed, largely car-free heart of Rome built on the bend of the Tiber, a layered accumulation of ancient temples, Baroqu…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (26K)

💎Janiculum Hill

Hidden gem

The Janiculum is the viewpoint that Romans keep for themselves: not as tall as the Pincio, not as famous as the Aventine keyhole, but offering a sweep…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.5 (5.2K)

🖼️Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi

Museum

Occupying the last great baroque palazzo built in Rome, right on Piazza Navona, Palazzo Braschi houses the civic history of Rome from the medieval per…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (459)

🌅Monte Ciocci - Belvedere Ettore Scola

Viewpoint

A low, scruffy hill behind the Vatican that most tourists never think to climb, Monte Ciocci rewards the curious with a terrace view that frames St. P…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (111K)

🏛️Castel Sant'Angelo

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A 2nd-century mausoleum for Emperor Hadrian, converted into a papal fortress and prison, with Renaissance apartments and a rooftop terrace overlooking…

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🏛️Palazzo Manfredi

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The Colosseum is best seen from a distance, and Palazzo Manfredi has solved that problem better than anywhere else in Rome: the rooftop restaurant and…

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★ 4.4 (7.1K)

🗿Pyramid of Caius Cestius

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A genuine ancient Egyptian-style pyramid rising thirty-six meters from the middle of Rome, incorporated into the Aurelian Walls near the Testaccio nei…

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$$$★ 4.6 (463)

🏛️Hotel Campo de' Fiori

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Perched above one of Rome's most animated piazzas, this small, intimate hotel occupies a centuries-old palazzo whose rooftop terrace delivers a panora…

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$$$★ 4.1 (460)

🏛️Residenza in Farnese

Landmark

Tucked into a narrow street between the Campo de' Fiori and the grand Palazzo Farnese, this small residence occupies a restored 15th-century building…

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★ 4.6 (343)

💎Arco degli Acetari

Hidden gem

Pass through an unmarked archway off Campo de' Fiori and the city's volume drops immediately: the Arco degli Acetari opens onto a tiny, ivy-draped cou…

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$$$★ 4.6 (1.3K)

🏛️Donna Camilla Savelli Hotel

Landmark

Staying in a 17th-century convent designed by Francesco Borromini is a particular kind of Roman experience: the curved corridors, the cloister garden…

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💎Eating Europe Food Tours Rome

Hidden gem

Eating Europe runs small-group walking food tours through Rome's most characterful rioni, turning a morning or evening into a deliberate, guided eatin…

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★ 4.6 (33)

🏛️Piazza Margana

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One of Rome's most atmospheric medieval squares, Piazza Margana sits a short walk from the Capitoline Hill in a corner of the city that most visitors…

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★ 4.7 (10K)

🏛️Ostia Antica

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Rome's ancient port city, excavated to a degree of completeness that Pompeii's fame tends to undeservedly overshadow, sits a thirty-minute train ride…

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★ 4.8 (507K)

🏛️Colosseum

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The greatest amphitheater ever built, seating 50,000 Romans for gladiatorial combat and wild animal hunts beginning in 80 AD. Scott and Jennifer have…

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★ 4.7 (26K)

🌿Janiculum Hill

Nature

The highest viewpoint accessible by car in central Rome, with a long terrace overlooking the entire city from the Pantheon to the Colosseum. A cannon…

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★ 4.6 (2K)

🌿Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica

Nature

A 16-kilometer protected corridor along the oldest surviving Roman road, lined with ancient tombs, catacombs, and crumbling aqueduct arches that most…

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★ 4.7 (459)

💎Monte Ciocci - Belvedere Ettore Scola

Hidden gem

A low, scruffy hill behind the Vatican that almost no tourist ever climbs, rewarding the curious with a terrace view that frames St. Peter's dome from…

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★ 4.7 (19K)

🏛️Capitoline Museums

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The world's oldest public museums, occupying Michelangelo-designed palaces on the Capitoline Hill with the finest collection of Roman sculpture anywhe…

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★ 4.8 (287K)

🏛️Pantheon

Landmark

The best-preserved building of ancient Rome, completed around 125 AD with an unreinforced concrete dome that remained the world's largest for over 1,3…

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★ 4.8 (77K)

🏛️Monument to Victor Emmanuel II

Landmark

The vast white marble altar of the nation, built to honor Italy's first king, housing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with its eternal flame. The free…

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🏛️Campo de' Fiori

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A lively market square by morning and Rome's most sociable outdoor bar scene by night, centered on the brooding statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno.…

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★ 4.7 (20K)

💎The Park of the Aqueducts

Hidden gem

A broad, grassy parkland southeast of the city where seven ancient Roman aqueducts march across the landscape in various states of ruin, a scene so ci…

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★ 4.7 (522K)

🏛️Trevi Fountain

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Nicola Salvi's thundering Baroque masterpiece, completed in 1762 where three ancient aqueducts once met, with Neptune commanding a chariot pulled by s…

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★ 4.7 (218K)

🏛️Piazza Navona

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Rome's most theatrical Baroque square, built over the footprint of a 1st-century stadium and anchored by Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. Street…

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★ 4.6 (30K)

🏛️Galleria Borghese

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A Baroque villa in the Villa Borghese park housing Bernini's most breathtaking sculptures alongside Caravaggio canvases in intimate, frescoed rooms. E…

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★ 4.6 (3.3K)

💎Villa Farnesina

Hidden gem

A perfectly proportioned Renaissance villa in Trastevere built for the banker Agostino Chigi, decorated with frescoes by Raphael, Peruzzi, and Sebasti…

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★ 4.7 (13K)

💎Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

Hidden gem

A massive Baroque fountain commissioned by Pope Paul V in 1612, floodlit at night on the Janiculum slope above Trastevere, with a terrace that offers…

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★ 4.7 (8.5K)

💎Galleria Doria Pamphilj

Hidden gem

A private princely gallery still owned by the Doria Pamphilj family, with Velazquez, Caravaggio, Titian, and Raphael hung in gilded 18th-century apart…

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