Going to Rome next week

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Hey all, first time I've really asked for tips on places to see and now that I am it's probably the city with the most to see in Europe. I'm sure we could go there and find something good to see on every corner in the city centre but I'd like to have some sort of list of the places that have to be seen when there. I'm going with my gf for 4 days so we won't be able to see everything and probably won't be going on a day trip to Pompeii (as much as I'd like to) or anything like that.

So what places apart from the Colosseum and Vatican should we try and get around to see? We're both interested in the old Roman stuff but also any good shopping areas or other interesting places to see.

 

[Darg]

heres a few old sites well worth going to see in rome:
1) pantheon (best preserved roman temple in rome)
2) Roman forum, so many buildings to see here
3) The Capitoline Hill (the hill above the forum, two museums)
4)The Palatine Hill (remains of the massive palace to the Ceasers)
5) Baths of Diocletian (once a 32 acre site) well worth a visit
6)Baths of Caracalla (impressive ruins to this day)
7)Trajan's Market (the oldest shopping centre in the world)
8) Ostia Antica (well worth a day trip, you can get there on the metro and its like pompeii

The above are just a fraction of the ancient roman things to see in the city!

Borich

Great, thanks mate I'll add them all to the list

 

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Hey guys, I've been meaning to come back to this thread and say thanks to everyone for all their suggestions. We had an amazing time, such an awesome place. I rarely use that word but there's no other way to describe it. Every street we went down had a huge old building or church. I took loads of pics but sadly my camera is broken so it's just phone pics. I'll copy a few of them over (lost the cable so have to bluetooth it which takes ages) and post them tomorrow.

We had our first meal in trastevere on the square of santa maria church without even realising it. We did think it looked quite good from outside but it seemed to be closed. If I'd known that was it I would have gone back when it was open

We saw most major places, Pantheon, vatican (took a full day almost in the museum), outside the colloseum and the forum. We didn't have time to go into them sadly as we were running out of time by the end. So much to see we have to go back. We both agreed it's our favourite city we've been to by far.

Thanks again everyone