Going to Rome for a short vacay

True Italian pizza is hard bread tomato paste and on leaf it taste worse that burger pizza and everyone know it but acting like snob to make them self feel special for paying for overpriced bread.

I once checked my local reviews and went to place that got some kind of best Italian pizza award of Naples it was very meh and me and my pal regretted that we just didn't went to domino's.

You should eat some italian food it's pretty good there.

I went last year

Vatican City is intense

There's so much art everywhere. The door frames have more art than most people will see in their lives

St Peter's Basilica was almost a sensorial overload

There's a weird energy to that place

The School of Athens freco is astonishing when you're standing in front of it

Creation of Adam is a lot smaller than expected, but as you look at the ceiling, all the whole piece pops out like 3D, it's trippy

The rest of Rome is pretty dirty, and the drivers are fricking crazy

Oh yeah, the pizza fricking sucks

Get normal pasta

I lived in Rome for a little bit.

See the Vatican and Sistene Chapel

St John's Basicilia has some VERY impressive statues of the 12 apostles. VR Tour. Click 5 and look over your right shoulder at Matthew. He's reading a ledger with his foot on a bag of coins spilling out. Across from him is Bartholomew who is holding his own skin and the faces are the same.

St. Paul's Outside the Walls

Santa Maria Maggiore

Michelangelo's weird Moses statue at San Pietro in Vincoli

Spanish Steps

Piazza Navona

Trevi Fountain. In that same area there is a tie store called Fratelli Segatori that sells ties with naked girls on the back, full bush.

Victor Emmanuel II palace thingy

Colosseum / Forum / Circus Maximus

Pantheon

If you have the time go to Napoli and onward to Mt Vesuvius. Climb the volcano and also go see the ruins of Pompei and find the brothel and the Casa dei Vitti to see a fresco of Priapus with his huge schlong.

Rome is the most beautiful city in the world, imo. Some personal recommendations:

• The Pantheon, the most beautiful building I've ever seen in my life. I remember sitting in the piazza before it and just staring at its majesty.

• Largo di Torre Argentina is an excavation of Roman temples and Pompey's Theatre. It is the location were Julius Caesar was assasinated. Allow me to repeat: you can visit the place that Julius Caesar was assasinated. It is also home to a tribe of stray kitties.

• Terme di Caracalla is the ruins of a Roman bathhouse. It is truly enormous, with beatiful surviving frescos and other artifacts.

• San Nicola in Carcere is an old church. For a small fee, you can descend into the crypt to see the ruins of the ancient Roman temples the church was built upon.

• Roman Forum. This goes without saying. You have to see the centre of society and government of ancient Rome.

Don't look the Africans in the eye

Tips- buy your tickets in advance, not like before the entire trip but in advance, places like the Vatican cam get quite busy and some of the areas have limited numbers of people that can go a day

Never buy tickets from people walking around in front of the museums

Also, random dudes, almost always black, will approach you and start asking questions in english, usually harmless stuff like "what time is it", once you respond back in english it means you're a tourist and they'll start begging for money, what you should do is simply ignore them and walk away

As for what to visit, a lot of the classics are a must, no reason to try to go for niche obscure stuff if it's your first time

Restaurant wise I don't know Rome well enough to tell your but the Trastevere neighbourhood is very nice, it's a short walk from all the main tourism centres and has great seafood too (according to romans I know)

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