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What have we missed out in Rome?

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Questionz · 15/01/2025 15:09

Currently in Rome (having a fab time I might add!). We have one more full day before coming home on Friday and have checked off our planned itinerary sooner than planned. We've done the Vatican, the Pantheon, the Colosseum and Forum, the Castel Sant'Angelo, the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, and numerous churches (annoyingly I haven't been keeping track...). We're staying in the Trastevere and have had pizza, pasta, tiramisu, gelato and plenty of espresso, wine and Aperol spritz. We both love art, history, food and wine. What have I missed out? Preferably something we can do tomorrow without needing to have booked weeks in advance Grin.

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123ZYX · 15/01/2025 15:14

borghese gallery? The sculptures are amazing.

I think they had on the day tickets, but you could probably book online in advance

coralsky · 15/01/2025 15:15

Why not find some of the restaurants featured in Stanley tucci's searching for Italy ? One is bar San Callisto in Trastevere actually!

Ukisgaslit · 15/01/2025 15:18

The muesum and piazza at the top of Capitoline hill ?
Wide curving steps up . Nice view from the cafe / gift shop IIRC

Ukisgaslit · 15/01/2025 15:19

Agree re the sculptures in the Borghese gallery

chipsandpeas · 15/01/2025 15:19

buy a hot priest calendar

BathTangle · 15/01/2025 15:19

How about the stadium of Domitian, which is underneath the Piazza Navona: stadiodomiziano.com

ZaZathecat · 15/01/2025 15:20

Sandman's free walking tour?

clary · 15/01/2025 15:21

Berninis the ecstasy of st teresa - it’s in a church, it’s unbelievable

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa

redskyatnight · 15/01/2025 15:21

Not in Rome, but a short journey away by train, Ostia Antica is worth a trip IMO

tpmumtobe · 15/01/2025 15:23

Trolley bike hire round the Borghese Gardens!

MissAmbrosia · 15/01/2025 15:24

Go to Testaccio and one of the restaurants built into the hillside made of broken amphorae. Some have little windows looking into what was really a Roman rubbish dump. Victor Emmanuel monument and glass lift the roof for the views. Villa Borghese. Via GetYourGuide I think, we did an "underground" tour starting from Piazza Navona.

Questionz · 15/01/2025 15:24

Wow thank you - can't believe so many replies already! Will get googling.

@chipsandpeas that made me laugh. They are everywhere!

@tpmumtobe we saw these and did think they looked fun!

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tpmumtobe · 15/01/2025 15:25

Ooh and have you walked up Janiculum Hill, behind Trastavere? Great views!

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 15/01/2025 15:25

We did a week and did a day trip on the train to Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Domus Aurea with VR headset,
The Bone crypts and catacombs tour
Capitoline Museums is brilliant

minipie · 15/01/2025 15:25

Borghese if you can get in

Or head south - Caracalla Baths or bike ride along the Appian Way

Day trip to the ruins at Ostia - I haven’t been but it’s supposed to be like a mini Pompeii

EwwSprouts · 15/01/2025 15:28

The Capuchin Crypt. Small but fascinating and no need to book in advance.

Lyn348 · 15/01/2025 15:28

La Bocca della Verità?

MoodEnhancer · 15/01/2025 15:29

Another vote for the Borghese - the Bernini sculptures are worth seeing in particular.

Years ago my DH and I went on a food tour of Testaccio. It remains one of our all time holiday highlights. They were a far smaller outfit then (just one guy with a big idea!) and have now expanded into multiple cities and changed their name, but pretty sure it’s now called Eating Europe.

crackofdoom · 15/01/2025 15:29

San Clemente

Isola Tiberina and Ponte Fabrizio

The Catacombs

Bocca della Verita and the two beautifully intact temples opposite it.

LillianGish · 15/01/2025 15:30

Have you been here: https://www.basilicasanclemente.com/eng/ ?
A church, on a church on a church - you keep going down to discover the different centuries. Extraordinary - we all loved it including the kids.

Basilica di San Clemente – Official site of the Basilica of San Clemente. I Timetables, information and online reservations for the excavations

https://www.basilicasanclemente.com/eng

Juiceinacup · 15/01/2025 15:31

Echo PP’s Ostia Antica short train journey from Rome is amazing I would have loved to have spent more time there the site is huge.

Everyreason · 15/01/2025 15:34

I love Rome. I always end up at some point at St Pietro in Vincoli. It’s the church St Peter in Chains. It has Michelangelo’s statue of Moses and the chains that held St Peter captive when he was imprisoned. It has frescoes on the ceilings and it’s always quiet in there.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pietro_in_Vincoli

Joolsin · 15/01/2025 15:35

Another vote for Ostia Antica. Or if you don't have time to go outside the city, another vote for Palazzo Barberini.

Ukisgaslit · 15/01/2025 15:41

Yes san Clemente is fabulous
If you go there, you might as well visit the church of St John Lateran . It’s at the top of the street ( moving away from the coliseum)

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