What to do in Rome when it rains
From otsuka's four-day Rome plan: what's indoors, what to move, and which day to swap. The whole plan.
Swap a day
Day 2 is the one to keep dry: Colosseum, Roman Forum and Palatine Hill are all outdoors. Day 3 has nothing outdoors on it. Indoors that day: Vatican Museums. If day 2 comes up wet, trade the two days and keep both.
Indoors on the plan
Outdoors, worth moving
Put these on a dry day rather than drop them.
- Janiculum Hill day 1
Hill above Trastevere, looks out over the domes. - Colosseum day 2
Amphitheater opened in AD 80. - Roman Forum day 2
Ruins of temples, courts and the senate house. - Palatine Hill day 2
Where the emperors built their palaces. - Spanish Steps day 4
135 steps up to Trinità dei Monti. - Trevi Fountain day 4
Baroque fountain, finished in 1762.
Meals, indoors already
- Dinner in Trastevere day 1
Trattorias on the lanes around the basilica. - Lunch in Monti day 2
Old quarter a few streets from the Forum. - Dinner in Testaccio day 2
Quarter around the old slaughterhouse, Roman offal dishes. - Lunch in Prati day 3
Residential grid next to the Vatican walls. - Dinner in Borgo day 3
Old streets between St. Peter's and the river. - Lunch near Piazza Navona day 4
Square built over Domitian's stadium.
In otsuka
On the day, tap Want to reschedule?, then It's raining. What's outdoors moves to another day of the trip, and the hours it frees take up to three indoor things, from later in Rome first, then from your wishlist. You see where each thing lands before anything moves, and one tap undoes it.
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