Concealed for decades, a huge network of chambers beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill is to be opened up to the public, revealing ...

Rome has 2500+ drinking fountains (nasoni) around the city and you can fill up your water bottle for free at any one of them. Hydrate well and often in your reusable water bottle. Check out this BPA ...

How do you say megabyte in Latin? Ancient Rome was reborn—as a virtual city—today, when a team of American and Italian academics unveiled Rome Reborn, a real-time 3-D computer reconstruction that ...

A city is what it does to you, and Rome defies any attempt by the tourist to describe it—while insisting in every moment that it be described. Via Margutta is a short street with a long history ...

They built it, and people came. Teenage boys, mostly, from Roma Nord, Ostia, Prenestina, Monterotondo and other suburbs, trekking to Rome’s city center, boards in hand, to heelflip and airwalk ...

How to plan a family city break in Rome. Visiting the Italian capital brings history vividly to life, and you can sightsee simply by strolling, with regular reviving pizza, pasta and ice-cream stops.

This itinerary will take you through some of Rome’s most interesting neighborhoods, so take it at a leisurely pace with plenty of time for cups of coffee, aperitifs, and lunch.

Like Europe’s other ancient cities, Rome is perched on one vast archeological site. The modern city sits on top of the detritus of its predecessor cities, arching back into time almost three ...

Rome is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. Three thousand years or so of history take us down beneath the modern streets, past Mussolini’s imperial city, on through the ...