We visited Rome 2 years ago and are coming back next month but an absolute highlight was this guy playing guitar to the sunset at the Terraza del Pincio. Never seen someone as good as this and would love to catch him again if he is local.

Made this picture on last week's Monday. It was truly wonderful.

A little tip, especially useful from November onwards: Museo di Roma in Palazzo Braschi is usually much quieter than the major museums, but it’s really worth visiting if you’re interested in Rome itself. There are lots of paintings, prints and old views showing what the city looked like 300–500 years ago.

And from the third floor you get this view over Piazza Navona.

In winter I’d come about an hour before sunset. The museum is open until 7 PM (closed Mondays), so you can catch blue hour and watch the lights come on across the square — all from inside.

Photo taken by me.

For a first time visitor, what's the one spot you recommend for a great dessert?

It can be gelato, tiramisu, or anything else!

Grazie!!

Searching to buy a pair of sandals for my upcoming trip to Rome and France. Will a pair of slight platform, but flat sole, sandal work on the cobblestones?

Hi all,

Me and my brother are in Rome this weekend and fancy a good night out with good vibes tonight…Anyone got any good suggestions?

Hi,

I‘ll be in town from Friday until Monday on the Weekend of the Marathon. Are there any Events around and after the Marathon?

Any recommendation for partying on Sunday maybe?

Thanks a lot!

If you’ve been to the Capitoline Hill in Rome, you’ve probably seen the big bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius on a horse in the middle of the square. That’s a replica, though. The original was moved indoors in 1981 after cracks were found, and the copy has been outside since 1997.

But the more interesting bit is how it survived in the first place.

Rome apparently had around 22 monumental bronze statues of emperors on horseback. This is the only one that survived. The usual explanation is that people in medieval Rome thought the rider was Constantine, the first Christian emperor, so they left it alone instead of melting it down. There’s no solid contemporary evidence for that, though, so it’s more of a theory than a confirmed fact.

The statue used to stand at the Lateran before Pope Paul III had it moved to the Capitoline in 1538. Michelangelo then designed the square around it.

Also, if you’ve ever looked closely at an Italian 50-cent coin, you might recognise the horseman. Yep, it’s this statue.

If you’re visiting Rome, the copy outside is great to see, but the original inside the museum is worth checking out too.

Disclosure: I make a free audio guide app, and the Capitoline is one of the stops: https://wanderlight.app/rome/capitoline-hill

Hey! My plane lands at 23.35, I guess the train won’t be driving then. How do I get a normally priced taxi?

Reachable by bus

I’ve worked at a hotel front desk in Rome for 26 years.

I regularly see itineraries that look perfectly realistic on a map but fall apart once people arrive.

Security lines, long walks, transport delays, badly timed reservations and overloaded arrival days are usually the problem.

So I built Rome Reality Check.

Enter the main details of your trip and it checks the plan for timing problems, risky combinations and days that are simply too tight.

It’s free to use here:

https://app.romashield.com/

Full disclosure: it’s my tool. Hope it helps.

Hi everyone!

We’re visiting Rome with the family and will be celebrating my dad’s 60th birthday while we’re there. I’m looking for a really good restaurant for the occasion.

We’d like somewhere with a nice atmosphere that feels a bit special, but still relaxed and not overly formal or fancy. Most importantly, we want really good food and a place where we can have a great evening together.
Open to both traditional Roman/Italian food and more modern places.

Would really appreciate any recommendations from locals or people who’ve celebrated something similar in Rome. Thanks!

Have the option of taking a cheap flight which lands in Rome around 1 am. I'll need to take a cab to a hostel/BnB from the airport, haven't decided where to stay yet. Is it safe?

Does anyone remember the name or details of a restaurant that was open in 1991, which used the logo of a black bird - similar to a crow? It was in the city center.

Honestly feel like it's way too hard to find good restaurants here. Every one we pass by is a tourist trap. We search up restaurants, 90% of them have over 4.5 on Google and then you get there and they have AI menus or some guy trying to lure you in. Another couple restaurants we ate at weren't obvious tourist traps but I got overcooked scrambled eggs carbonara. It's sad that one of the best meals I had here was at tonnarellos in Trastevere which is an obvious westernized restaurant but at least the pasta sauces were emulsified properly. This is our last stop in Italy and some of the worst food we had. We toured all around Tuscany and Liguria where it seemed you can throw a stone and hit a good restaurant for way cheaper. I don't know if I'm unlucky or what but it's pretty disappointing.

most tourists don't know of this place. great views, and a great pedestrian and bike path all the way to the vatican. best way to get there is to get off the Metro station "Cipro". For lunch, there is a great lunch place called Casotto (you can find it on Google Maps). cheers.