One question our team at From Home to Rome gets asked surprisingly often by guests who have already ticked off the Colosseum, spent a morning in the Vatican, and eaten their weight in carbonara is some variation of: “What else is there? Something that isn’t a museum or a church or another food tour?” It’s […]
For those of you who are visiting Rome and are after bizarre stories, look no further than this post on a famous fountain (no, not that one). Tucked away between Piazza Navona and Castel Sant’Angelo in what is now Piazza dell’Orologio, sits a fountain that looks nothing like a fountain at all: a giant stone […]
by C. P.
Rome is a beautiful, layered, extraordinary city, and it keeps attracting travelers in the millions every year. However, for visitors with mobility challenges, Rome is also, at times, a genuinely difficult destination. This post is not here to sugarcoat that. It is here to give you an honest picture of what to expect if you […]
by C. P.
The streets around the train station at Termini do not always make the postcards, but it’s where the city actually lives and full of the kind of everyday Roman scenes that tourists usually have to go looking for. It’s also, as it happens, home to our newest managed apartment: Castro Pretorio 23! A stay for […]
by C. P.
If you were to stop a hundred tourists in Piazza Navona and ask them what’s down the little street just north of it, maybe five will know its name. And yet Via dei Coronari is, quietly, one of the most important streets in Rome’s entire history and has been carrying people, money, prayers, and gossip […]
Have you heard about the concept of “tropical nights”? This happens when the temperatures never drop below 20°C (68°F) after sunset. This year, between May and the end of July, Rome has recorded over 50 tropical nights. This has increasingly pushed people to be out and about looking for activities to do when temperatures, while […]
by C. P.
Rome has been so thoroughly mythologized in films, cookbooks, and a thousand “best of Italy” listicles that the majority of visitors arrive to the city with a fully formed mental image of it. In our experience in our day-to-day job, the expectations are only about 40% accurate. The rest is a composite of things borrowed […]
We feel for you: you’ve been preparing for the trip of a lifetime, reading, watching, and just generally amassing knowledge about Rome. It’s the videos on social media that are causing you the most issues: you’ve scrolled through so many that it’s now hard to distinguish claims from actual information about what your experience in […]
Rome might just be the perfect city for exercise enthusiasts: its legendary seven hills (although we know that there are more of those hidden in plain sight!), its rivers, or its bike lanes are part of the reason why Romans are, on the whole, a surprisingly active bunch. Gyms are there, of course, but you […]
While Rome is pushing forward with its long-awaited Metro Line C — a new subway line whose construction keeps turning up unexpected archaeological finds right under the city center — the monument we’re featuring here owes nothing to those excavations. It has always been there, within arm’s reach, but like so many Roman sites, quietly […]
