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Four days in Rome

Italy

Four days, on foot

A four-day plan for Rome, hour by hour: nineteen places, from otsuka's example trips. Every time is a starting point, and every row can move.

Day 1

Trastevere

  1. Santa Maria in Trastevere

    Basilica with 12th-century mosaics in the apse.

    Trastevere · 1 hr

  2. Janiculum Hill

    Hill above Trastevere, looks out over the domes.

    Trastevere · 1 hr

  3. Dinner in Trastevere

    Trattorias on the lanes around the basilica.

    Trastevere · 1 hr 30 min

Day 2

Celio, Roman Forum, Monti, Palatine Hill, Testaccio

  1. Colosseum

    Amphitheater opened in AD 80.

    Celio · 2 hr 30 min

  2. Roman Forum

    Ruins of temples, courts and the senate house.

    Roman Forum · 2 hr

  3. Lunch in Monti

    Old quarter a few streets from the Forum.

    Monti · 1 hr

  4. Palatine Hill

    Where the emperors built their palaces.

    Palatine Hill · 1 hr 30 min

  5. Dinner in Testaccio

    Quarter around the old slaughterhouse, Roman offal dishes.

    Testaccio · 1 hr 30 min

Day 3

Vatican City, Prati, Borgo

  1. Vatican Museums

    The route ends in the Sistine Chapel.

    Vatican City · 3 hr 30 min

  2. Lunch in Prati

    Residential grid next to the Vatican walls.

    Prati · 1 hr

  3. St. Peter's Basilica

    Michelangelo designed the dome, and you can climb it.

    Vatican City · 2 hr

  4. Castel Sant'Angelo

    Hadrian's tomb, later a papal fortress.

    Borgo · 1 hr 15 min

  5. Dinner in Borgo

    Old streets between St. Peter's and the river.

    Borgo · 1 hr 30 min

Day 4

Piazza di Spagna, Trevi, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Villa Borghese, Campo de' Fiori

  1. Spanish Steps

    135 steps up to Trinità dei Monti.

    Piazza di Spagna · 45 min

  2. Trevi Fountain

    Baroque fountain, finished in 1762.

    Trevi · 30 min

  3. Pantheon

    Roman temple under a dome with an open oculus.

    Pantheon · 45 min

  4. Lunch near Piazza Navona

    Square built over Domitian's stadium.

    Piazza Navona · 1 hr 15 min

  5. Borghese Gallery

    Bernini sculptures in a cardinal's villa.

    Villa Borghese · 2 hr

  6. Dinner near Campo de' Fiori

    Square with a morning market since 1869.

    Campo de' Fiori · 1 hr 30 min

If it rains in Rome

These are outdoors. On a wet day, It's raining moves them to another day of the trip and brings something indoors forward.

Indoors on this plan: Vatican Museums and Borghese Gallery.

Rome in the rain, day by day

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