Piazzas in Rome
Which Piazzas to visit when you are in Rome? This was a question I asked my self before going on our trip. There are many piazzas, how many? who knows right!? The ten top ones are: Piazza Navona Piazza del popolo Piazza Venezia Piazza di Spagna Piazza Santa Maria Piazza del Campidoglio Piazza San Pietro […]
How many days to stay in Rome?
When we started planning our trip to this big beautiful European city, we asked our self how many days to stay? Is 4 days enough, or do we stay longer? I believe it all depends if you bringing kids on the trip or not! If you bring kids then it all depends on the age […]
The Vatican City
Address: Piazza San Petro, 00120 Città del Vaticano To have the nicest view while entering the Vatican, I would recommend to go to the Sant Angelo castle and start the nice walk over to the Vatican City. The closer you get the bigger you see St Peter’s square and how impressive it is. We went […]
The Pincio Promenade and terrace
Address: Salita del Pincio, 00187 Roma This is not considered one of Rome’s 7 hills but it is worth a visit. We found this nice terrace with a wonderful view all the way over to the Vatican and Rome´s historic center. We took a walk over to the Piazza del Popolo and noticed that is […]
The Roman Forum
Address: Via della Salara Vecchia, 5/6, 00186 Roma Old ruins today but back i the days it was a center of public life for the romans. If you are going to the colosseum visite this old important place of history and try to imagine how life could have been in the ancient Roman capital. We […]
Castel Sant Angelo
Address: Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma This castle was originally a mausoleum but is more associated with the arch angel Michael on top of the building raising his sword, marking the end of the epidemic of the plague. Now in modern time most people might associated this place to the Dan Brown movie Angels and […]
The Palatine hill
Address: Parco archeological del Colosseo, via di San Gregorio, 30, 00186 Roma The most famous hill of Rome’s seven hills. In the ancient time this was the place to live and was filled with aristocrats and emperors. The legend says that this is the place we’re the she wolf found Romulus and Remus. After our visit […]
Piazza Navona
Address: Piazza Navona, 00186 Roma Piazza Navona is one of Rome’s most famous square. Built on the site where it use to be a stadium in the 1th century A.D. The elongated shape has to do with that it use to hold up to 20 000 spectators for the athletic competitions held on the stadium. […]
Colosseum
Adress: Piazza del coloseo 1, 00184 Roma The Colosseum is one of the first things that comes to mind when thinking of Rome. All the old gladiator fights, horse races, and believe it or not even boats were sailing in there once. Can’t go to Rome without paying this wonderful arena a visit! Opening hours […]