3-Day Rome Itinerary Near the Vatican: What to Do When It Rains in September

For a few weeks, in the heart of Rome, you can see up close a painting that until recently almost no one had been able to admire. It is the Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, one of the extremely rare portraits to have come from Caravaggio’s brush, recently acquired by the Italian State for thirty…

Visiting Rome on a budget doesn’t mean ending up in the usual fast-food chains. In fact, just a short walk from the Vatican there are trattorias and osterie serving authentic Roman dishes at prices that are still reasonable. Here are 4 unmissable addresses: from the rustic osteria where there’s no printed menu, to the creative…

The Vatican Museums and the Quattro Cancelli Sculptures The Vatican Museums, custodians of countless works of art, recently completed a restoration project on a group of fourteen sculptures and sarcophagi known as the “quattro cancelli” (four gates). This corpus of statues stands in the Atrium of the Four Gates and represents an important record of…

In Rome, May means one thing: the Internazionali. For two weeks, the Foro Italico — the sports complex built by Mussolini, with sixty marble athlete statues lining the banks of the Tiber — becomes something that New York, Paris and London can only dream of. Stadio Pietrangeli Court number two is considered the most beautiful…