Rome — Sights
Turn a corner and there's a 2,000-year-old column.
- Colosseum — A 2,000-year-old arena where the ticket type decides what you see
- Roman Forum & Palatine Hill — Ancient Rome's downtown, included in your Colosseum ticket
- Pantheon — A 2,000-year-old temple with a hole in the roof
- Trevi Fountain — The steps by the water now cost €2; the coin toss is still free
- Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel — A 7km walk that ends under Michelangelo's ceiling
- St Peter's Basilica & Dome — Free church, and Rome at your feet 551 steps up
- Spanish Steps — The Roman Holiday steps, where sitting now earns a fine
- Piazza Navona — A Baroque fountain square that kept the shape of a stadium
- Castel Sant'Angelo & Ponte Sant'Angelo — An emperor's tomb turned fortress, best for its rooftop view
- Trastevere — Ivy-draped lanes for dinner and an evening wander
- Borghese Gallery — Two hours with Bernini, whose marble looks like skin
- Altare della Patria & Panoramic Terrace — A lift to the roof for a view that reaches the Colosseum
- Mouth of Truth — The Roman Holiday scene: queue, then one hand in
- Campo de' Fiori — Fruit market by morning, bar square by night
- Pompeii (day trip from Rome) — A city frozen by ash 2,000 years ago, done as a day tour
- Capuchin Crypt — Five small chapels made of friars' bones
- Aventine Keyhole — St. Peter's dome through a green door's keyhole
- Appian Way & Catacombs of San Callisto — A 2,000-year-old road and underground tombs
- Villa Borghese Gardens & Pincio Terrace — Boats, bikes and a Piazza del Popolo sunset
- Palazzo Doria Pamphilj — Caravaggio and Velazquez without the crowd
- Baths of Caracalla — Vast imperial bath ruins, far calmer than the Forum
- Quartiere Coppedè — Fairy-tale Art Nouveau lanes and a frog fountain
- Basilica of San Clemente — Stairs down to a medieval church, Roman street, Mithraeum
- Santa Maria in Trastevere — A gold-mosaic church on a lively evening square