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- Rome
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 57,679,825
- Population
- IT
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Travel Blogs from Roma, Italy
Roma
This is a top pick! Oh what a city! If I could have I would have changed our itinerary. I would have shortened our stay in Florence from 5 nights to 3 and extend Rome from 3 nights to 5. This city is incredible (and incredibly hot - beware!). There's so ...
Pisa, Firenze, Venezia, Roma
This is a top pick! ... afternoon wandering around the cemetary. - Walking around Burano, Lido, and central Venezia and getting lost at every opportunity. ROMA (Rome) Our highlight in Rome wasn't the Colosseum, the Vatica, or the Sistine Chapel, but a somewhat ...
Acting Immortal in the Eternal City
This is a top pick! ... really much), Rome is an amazing city. I can't wait to see what Florence looks like! Although I am having a great time in Italy, I miss everyone a lot. Please e-mail me and let me know how everything in your life is going. I will have pictures to send ...
When in Roma.....
... sea to Sicily and then on to Naples and the Amalfi Coast. It means that we've still got a fairly long 'wish list' for Italy, but we're sure that no-one leaves this country without good intention to return. Our Alitalia flight landed after dark, which ...
Ancora a Roma, e penso a Cagliari
... di Catalogna e nemmeno tre di Italia: i santi, le chiese, i nomi delle strade, la forma dei balconi: non c'č niente di Roma, o molto poco, a Cagliari; ma tutto ti parla di Barcellona e di oltremare, di commerci, di tessuti di raso lucido, di pittori e ...
A Day of Churches
Hi there, I am only half way through the day but have some time before our tour bus leaves to go and see Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. We got away early again today and boy does it make a big difference when you get somewhere before the ...
Rome not sure what day it is, maybe Thursdays
Ok, I have arrived safe and sound. Before I start let me say that they fuāked the keyboard up and that I think a liter of wine is a little more than one person should drink. Now that I have made my excuses lets continue. The first issue that must be ...
ostia antica
... the Metro and then a train out to Ostia Antica. Ostia (mouth - as the mouth of the Tiber) was the ancient seaport of Roma. It was a wealthy and important town in its own right and has extensive and amazing ruins. Nothing truly monumental like you find in ...
They sin to be holy
... something altogether different!!! (Sinning to be holy). As you can imagine, the folks from New Jersey, who were in Italy for the very first time, didn’t understand and were not impressed with this kind of behavior. Anyway, we finally ...
The adventure begins
... back to the flat and a brief rest, we set out for the Trevi Fountains and a quick spin around the centre of Roma. First impressions: When I have imagined Roma, I've always thought primarily about the ancient stuff. You know, the Colosseum, Pantheon, ...
Praise be to God
So this morning's start was a little delayed by the washing.... We should have been ready to leave by 9:30 but some stupid camper opened up the washing machine whilst it was washing and buggered it up.... so take 2 and we finally got out of the ...
La Bella Citta
... some gelato and, of course, the temple of the Gods. By far one of my most humbling and inspired site visits to date in Italy. We took photos like all tourists must and I thought of how incredible every moment shared with these people at this place will be ...
Last Day in Roma
Hello All, Today was our last day in Rome and our last day before we depart back to Dallas. We got up at the regular time and set out for the Vatican Museum. After getting to see the School of Athens and of course the bad ass Sistine ...
Learning more every day!!!
OK, I'll try to catch up.. Yesterday we went to the Colossum and the Forum and took a great tour that was well worth it.. One fact I didn't know was at one time Rome controlled 120 million people which they said was 60% of the Earth population.... ...
Treasures
As the Vatican museum was shut yesterday we decided to hit it early as did every other tourist in Rome – the queue stretched around the corner – 1 hour of waiting! Even the tour groups were stuck in queues, I bet they were dirty about that ...
Fiumicino, che pizza.
Aeroporto di Fiumicino; a tutte le volanti: non volate con VUELING. La compagnia aerea mi chiama alle ore 23.15 di ieri sera, mi dice che il mio volo alle 9 del mattino č cancellato; sarō imbarcato su un altro volo, in partenza alle 15.30. Inutile dire ...
Roma #1
... adventurous cab ride through the city got us to the train station. We boarded our train which stopped in Chiusi and then finally in Roma! We piled out of the train and hailed a giant cab station wagon and took another ride to our hotel for the rest of ...
A little down time.
... took the Metro back afterwards and I made a simple bolognese sauce with fresh tagliatelle and garlic bread. Interesting thing about Italy: no blood alcohol limit for driving, no minimum age for drinking, no minimum age for buying alcohol, no restrictions ...
Roming Rome
... , we would probably still be standing there!? Instead we went hunting for pizza and gelato! You should think it would be easy in Italy, but with all those options, it can be difficult to find a place which has exactly the three flavours you are ...
FAO visit and first cooking class with Diane!!!
... Emmanuel monument, and Via Fiori Imperali (Colosseum). She is a cute old English woman who fell in love with an Italian man, moved to Italy, and fell in love with cooking and the food. She is an excellent cook and has sold over 9 million copies of her ...
Serious site bagging
... did the day before. Yesterday, Friday, Melissa went into dice some mice so il ragazzi and I went into the centre of ancient Roma and did the most obligatory sites in some detail - the Colosseum and the old Roman Forum. I hadn't realised that there ...
Roma
Roma, After an incredible, fun, crazy, tiring and unforgettable week in Rome I think it's fair to say you haven't really been to Europe until you have been to Rome. The city really started europe as we know it (sure the greeks invented democracy and ...
Three ruins and a fountain...
... an archeologist with a wide knowledge of ancient history (and, evidently, folklore). She has studied archeological sites in Italy, including several in Rome. We started at Il Colosseo (the Colosseum). The size of the amphitheater is ...
Sketchy Italians....but its FRIDAY!!
Buon Giorno! Last night Deb and I cooked dinner for our lovely roommates which turned out very well. We had chicken, salad with delicious tomatoes from the street market, and whole wheat pasta with excellent sauce. We ate around 8:30 then got ready to go ...
Rileggendo Orwell, il viaggio si avvicina
Stasera ho scoperto che non sarō proprio solo in Spagna! Qualche giorno dopo la mia partenza verrā a Barcellona pure Francesco, ma starā solo nel finesettimana del 23 luglio. Che bella coincidenza; e che rabbia, quasi, non incontrare qualcuno per ...
Italia
Loved it , loved it. (Bah, I just screwed up and uploaded the pictures on the wrong album .. so check the next entry for the Italy ...
Off to Italia
... train was just hurdling down a rocky slope into the Mediterranean. We somehow survived and rolled into Rome the next morning. Italy was probably what everyone was most excited about. It's a country we have all studied extensively in school, or ...
Roma last full day
It is HOT. I haven't been able to stop sweating for the last 3 days and I just found deodorant today, I and everyone else is very happy. Day two I hit the Vatican City, I don't exactly know how to describe it, but huge. These guys had a little too ...