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Rome Revisited: What Has and Hasn’t Changed

Rome is changing. Rome has changed. You hear those phrases around Rome all the time these days. Crime, corruption, unemployment, immigration, unreliable public transit, trash collection, the euro – Italy is in crisis and the prevailing mood among its citizens is one of resignation and exhaustion. This was most recently expressed cinematically with La Grande…
Smoking in Italy

What you need to know about smoking in Italy, from laws to etiquette.
Exploring the Ghetto: A Tour of Rome’s Jewish Quarter [Review]

Learn more about the ancient and contemporary history of the Jewish people in Rome with a tour through the ex-Ghetto.
Upcoming Fundraiser at the Sistine Chapel Turns Heads

Each day, as many as 20,000 visitors pay up to €16 per person to enter the Vatican Museums, the highlight of which is the Sistine Chapel. This coming weekend, reports Crux, approximately 40 fans of German automaker Porsche will get to pay up to €5,000 each to take a private tour of the Vatican, which includes dinner…
6 Places to Stay on a Roman Holiday: Great Boutique Hotels in the Eternal City

Rome boutique hotels—here are six exceptional places to stay on your Roman holiday.
Photos: On the Capitoline Hill

See photos and read tips about visiting the Capitoline, one of Rome’s seven ancient hills.
Rome’s Fountains, Brought to You By…

Recently, city officials in Rome unveiled the Barcaccia fountain, which had been under wraps for the past year so it could be cleaned. The Barcaccia is now gleaming, as you can see in the photo above, and provides a pleasing visual for all those tired souls taking a breather on the Spanish Steps.