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★ 4.6 (207K)

🖼️Vatican Museums

Museum

Among the densest concentrations of art in the world, the Vatican Museums wind through papal apartments, sculpture galleries, and map rooms before del…

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★ 4.6 (2K)

🌿Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica

Nature

One of the great walks of the ancient world, the Appian Way Regional Park stretches some 16 kilometers south of Rome along a road that Julius Caesar,…

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$★ 4.5 (4.6K)

☕Sciascia Caffè 1919

Cafe

One of Rome's oldest and most serious coffee bars, operating out of a beautifully preserved Liberty-style room in the Prati neighborhood since 1919. T…

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$★ 4.1 (13K)

☕Sant' Eustachio Caffè

Cafe

Arguably the single most debated cup of coffee in Rome, Sant'Eustachio il Caffè has been roasting its own beans near the Pantheon since 1938 and draws…

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★ 4.8 (498K)

🏛️Colosseum

Landmark

The Colosseum is simply the most consequential sports arena ever built, a 50,000-seat amphitheater of travertine and concrete that hosted gladiatorial…

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Photo: Steven Guillemet

★ 4.7 (95K)

🖼️Sistine Chapel

Museum

No amount of prior familiarity with the images prepares you for the moment you walk into the Sistine Chapel and tilt your head back: Michelangelo's ce…

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Photo: Dejan Jankovic

$$★ 4.7 (9.4K)

🌿Villa Gregoriana

Nature

Technically in Tivoli rather than Rome proper, Villa Gregoriana is a steep, lush gorge park where the Aniene River plunges in a spectacular waterfall…

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$$★ 4.7 (108K)

🍽️Tonnarello

Restaurant

A Trastevere institution that has been packing in Romans and knowing travelers for decades, Tonnarello delivers the holy trinity of Roman pasta, cacio…

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$$★ 4.3 (10K)

🍽️Trattoria Da Enzo

Restaurant

Trastevere's most beloved neighbourhood trattoria earns its reputation not through hype but through decades of disciplined Roman cooking: carbonara th…

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$$$★ 4.3 (6.4K)

🍽️Roscioli Salumeria con Cucina

Restaurant

Part deli, part wine cellar, part serious restaurant: Roscioli is the kind of place Romans are quietly proud of and visitors spend years trying to get…

🏅 World's 50 Best: Featured on 50 Best Discovery (curated recommendation platform by the World's 50 Best organization; not a ranked list placement)🏅 World's 50 Best: Featured on World's 50 Best Discovery (broader curatorial list). Known as the kitchen of Rome's premier baking family with extensive Italian products.

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$$$★ 4.3 (2.3K)

🍸Drink Kong

Bar

Drink Kong is Rome's most talked-about cocktail bar, a darkly lit, design-forward space in the Pigneto-adjacent fringe of the centro where bartender P…

🏅 World's 50 Best: No. 33, World's 50 Best Bars 2024, Rome

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$$$$★ 4.6 (237)

🍽️Idylio by Apreda

Restaurant

Tucked inside the Pantheon-adjacent Hotel Indigo, Idylio is the stage on which chef Francesco Apreda distils a remarkable biography: years cooking in…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026); at The Pantheon Iconic Rome Hotel🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Located at The Pantheon Iconic Rome Hotel. Spice-driven international influences.

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$$$$★ 4.6 (1.4K)

🍽️La Pergola

Restaurant

Perched atop the Rome Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario, La Pergola is the undisputed summit of fine dining in the Eternal City, where German chef Heinz…

🏅 3 Michelin Stars (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 3 Michelin Stars, confirmed 2026 Guide (held continuously since 2005). Chef Heinz Beck. Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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🏛️Rome

Landmark

Rome is one of the few cities on earth where you can turn a street corner and find yourself face-to-face with two thousand years of uninterrupted hist…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026); rooftop of Palazzo Manfredi with Colosseum views🏅 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Season 6 Episode 20 (Rome); aired August 16 2010 on Travel Channel; filmed in black and white; features cacio e pepe at Roma Sparita🏅 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Season 8 Episode 9 (Rome); aired 2016/2017 on CNN; cinematic episode with Asia Argento and Abel Ferrara

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$$★ 4.4 (32K)

🍽️Osteria da Fortunata

Restaurant

The draw here is entirely handmade fresh pasta, rolled and cut in the open kitchen window that faces the street near Campo de' Fiori, a piece of theat…

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★ 4.7 (26K)

🌅Giardino degli Aranci

Viewpoint

Perched on the Aventine Hill above the Tiber, this small, immaculate garden is where Romans bring a quiet hour and a good book, surrounded by rows of…

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★ 4.7 (514K)

🗿Trevi Fountain

Monument

The largest Baroque fountain in Rome crashes into its travertine basin with theatrical force, the god Oceanus commanding a triumphal arch of sculpted…

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★ 4.6 (110K)

🏛️Spanish Steps

Landmark

The widest staircase in Europe cascades down from the French church of Trinita dei Monti in 138 travertine steps, each one a perch for someone eating…

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$$★ 4.7 (1.6K)

🍽️La Botticella of Poggi Giovanni

Restaurant

A deeply traditional Roman osteria where the menu reads like a love letter to the cucina povera of Lazio: rigatoni con la pajata, coda alla vaccinara,…

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Photo: La Botticella

$$★ 4.7 (9.6K)

🖼️Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali

Museum

Trajan's Markets are the ancient world's most strikingly complete commercial complex, a curved six-storey hemicycle of brick built into the Quirinal H…

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★ 4.2 (4.9K)

🌿Colle Oppio and Terme di Traiano Park

Nature

Spread across the Oppian Hill, this leafy public park sits directly above the buried chambers of Nero's Domus Aurea and beside the ruins of Trajan's B…

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Photo: Andreea Stefan

★ 4.3 (25K)

🏛️Mouth of Truth

Landmark

Set into the portico of the ancient church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, this large marble disc carved with a bearded river god's face has been drawing…

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Photo: Elie Ibrahim

$$$$★ 4.4 (5K)

🍽️Zuma Rome

Restaurant

The Rome outpost of the global Japanese-inspired izakaya brand occupies a dramatic space in the Palazzo Fendi complex, where sleek stone, warm wood, a…

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$$$$★ 4.5 (520)

🍽️Il Convivio Troiani

Restaurant

Steps from Piazza Navona in a 16th-century palazzo, Il Convivio Troiani has been a guardian of serious Roman fine dining since the early 1990s, run by…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026; first starred 1993)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Starred continuously since 1993. Run by the Troiani brothers in Rome's historic center.

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$$$$★ 4.6 (447)

🍽️Imàgo

Restaurant

Perched on the sixth floor of the Hotel Hassler at the very top of the Spanish Steps, Imàgo delivers what may be Rome's most breathtaking dining panor…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Located on the top floor of Hotel Hassler, Piazza Trinita dei Monti 6.🏅 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy S1E4, Milan (Lombardy), Milan (Navigli district)

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$$★ 4.1 (648)

☕Green T.

Cafe

A genuinely singular spot steps from the Pantheon: Green T. is a Chinese tea house and restaurant that feels like stepping into a hushed courtyard in…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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★ 4.7 (58K)

🏛️Piazza Venezia

Landmark

The thundering geographic heart of Rome, Piazza Venezia is where every major road in the city converges, dominated by the blinding white marble of the…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026); Chef Antonio Ziantoni, Trastevere, opened 2018🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Chef Antonio Ziantoni. Via Goffredo Mameli 45, Trastevere. Opened 2018.

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$$★ 4.7 (11K)

🌿Giardino di Ninfa

Nature

Often described as the most romantic garden in the world, Ninfa lies about 70 kilometers south of Rome in the Pontine hills, where a medieval ghost to…

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$$★ 4.7 (11K)

🍸Iari The Vino

Bar

A compact, character-rich enoteca that wears its passion for Italian wine on its sleeve: the shelves are stacked with bottles from small producers acr…

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★ 4.7 (124K)

🏛️Piazza del Popolo

Landmark

One of Rome's grandest urban set pieces, Piazza del Popolo opens like a theatrical curtain at the northern gate of the old city, its vast oval framed…

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$$★ 4.7 (8.4K)

🖼️Galleria Doria Pamphilj

Museum

Still owned and lived in by the Doria Pamphilj family, this is the largest privately held art collection in Rome, with over four hundred works lining…

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Photo: Chris DiNapoli

★ 4.7 (13K)

🗿Fontana dell'Acqua Paola

Monument

Locals call it simply Il Fontanone, the big fountain, and the name is earned: this enormous early Baroque facade of white marble erupts from the Janic…

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Photo: Krzysztof Golik

$$$★ 4.6 (522)

🍸Rooftop Jim's Bar

Bar

Jim's Bar sits on a rooftop in central Rome and earns its altitude with a panoramic view that takes in a skyline most visitors only see in photographs…

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$$★ 4.8 (9.8K)

🍽️Tonnarello San Pietro

Restaurant

The Prati-neighborhood sibling of the beloved Trastevere original, Tonnarello San Pietro brings the same reliable Roman pasta canon to the quieter str…

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Photo: Tatia Zhorzholiani

★ 4.8 (145K)

🏛️Roman Forum

Landmark

For roughly a thousand years, this valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills was the beating heart of the ancient world, the place where electi…

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★ 4.7 (20K)

🌿The Park of the Aqueducts

Nature

Seven ancient Roman aqueducts march across this vast, wind-swept stretch of the Appian Way Regional Park, their brick arches striding through meadows…

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Photo: Giuseppina Lombardi

★ 4.6 (927)

🌿Parco del Gianicolo

Nature

The Gianicolo is the hill Romans climb when they want to remember why they live here: the panoramic terrace above Trastevere delivers one of the most…

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Photo: Florian Riguccini

$$★ 4.5 (5.5K)

🍽️La Licata

Restaurant

A family-run Sicilian trattoria in Rome that channels the sun-drenched flavours of the island's southwestern coast, with dishes built around caponata,…

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★ 4.8 (180K)

🏛️Saint Peter’s Basilica

Landmark

The largest church in Christendom earns every superlative: Michelangelo's soaring dome, Bernini's bronze baldachin towering over the papal altar, and…

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$$★ 4.4 (3.1K)

🍽️Hosteria Grappolo d'oro

Restaurant

A Campo de' Fiori institution that rewards those who look past the square's tourist traps: the menu leans into Roman-Jewish tradition with pasta dishe…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand

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$$$$★ 4.3 (576)

🍽️Il Pagliaccio

Restaurant

Tucked into a Renaissance palazzo in the Campo de' Fiori neighborhood, Il Pagliaccio is one of Rome's most cerebral fine-dining rooms, where chef Anth…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 2 Michelin Stars, confirmed 2026 Guide. Chef Anthony Genovese.

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$$$$★ 4.5 (512)

🍽️La Terrazza

Restaurant

The rooftop restaurant of the Hotel Eden on Via Ludovisi commands a sweeping, unobstructed view across Rome's skyline that rivals any in the city, wit…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, new entry (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, NEW in 2026 Guide. Chef Salvatore Bianco. Located on the top floor of Hotel Eden (Dorchester Collection), Via Ludovisi 49.

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★ 4.6 (95K)

🌿Villa Borghese

Nature

Rome's most beloved green escape is a 80-hectare landscape of umbrella pines, boating lakes, and gravel paths that sits on the Pincian Hill above the…

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Photo: Manuel Jiménez González

★ 4.6 (30K)

🖼️Galleria Borghese

Museum

Housed in a 17th-century villa inside the Villa Borghese park, this is arguably the single greatest concentration of Bernini sculpture on earth, with…

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★ 4.6 (21K)

🌿Villa Doria Pamphili

Nature

Rome's largest public park, Villa Doria Pamphili sprawls across nearly 200 hectares on the Gianicolo ridge and is where the city's western neighborhoo…

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Photo: Guido Giaminetto

$$★ 4.6 (4.6K)

🍸Barnum Roma

Bar

A few steps from Campo de' Fiori, Barnum Roma occupies a beautifully worn space where exposed brick, mismatched vintage furniture, and warm lighting m…

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★ 4.5 (6.9K)

🗿Fontana delle Tartarughe

Monument

Tucked into the small, sun-dappled Piazza Mattei in the old Jewish Ghetto, the Fontana delle Tartarughe is one of Rome's most quietly ravishing founta…

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Photo: Kristien Rogister

$$★ 4.2 (8.9K)

🍸Scholars Lounge Irish Pub

Bar

Rome's most established Irish pub, spread across several dimly lit, wood-panelled rooms near the Pantheon, and reliably packed with a mixed crowd of e…

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Photo: Martin Tully

★ 4.2 (8.5K)

🌿Valle dell'Aniene Nature Reserve

Nature

Following the Aniene River as it cuts through the northeastern suburbs of Rome, this linear reserve is the city's green lung tucked between apartment…

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Photo: Giuseppe Campagna

$$★ 4.7 (46K)

🍽️Nannarella

Restaurant

Named with affection for the great Anna Magnani, this Trastevere trattoria carries the spirit of its namesake: earthy, warm, and unapologetically Roma…

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Photo: Vincenzo

$$★ 4.7 (4.5K)

🖼️National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia

Museum

The finest Etruscan collection anywhere in the world occupies a Renaissance papal villa whose nymphaeum alone is worth the journey, and yet the museum…

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Photo: Alberto Camino Calderón

$$★ 4.8 (18K)

🍽️Achille Al Pantheon di Habana

Restaurant

Steps from the Pantheon, this Roman-Cuban hybrid is one of those cheerful contradictions that only Rome can pull off: robust local pasta alongside moj…

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$$$$★ 4.5 (975)

🍽️Ristorante All'Oro

Restaurant

Set inside the refined H'All Tailor Suite hotel near the Parioli district, Ristorante All'Oro is chef Riccardo Di Giacinto's love letter to Italian cu…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide.

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$$$$★ 4.6 (883)

🍽️PER ME - Giulio Terrinoni

Restaurant

Chef Giulio Terrinoni's intimate laboratory in the heart of Trastevere is where Roman culinary tradition gets quietly, brilliantly redrawn. The tastin…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide.

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★ 4.8 (282K)

🏛️Pantheon

Landmark

The Pantheon's unremarkable exterior on the Piazza della Rotonda does nothing to prepare you for the interior, where a perfectly proportioned concrete…

🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand🏅 Michelin Bib Gourmand🏅 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy S1E2, Rome, Rome

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★ 4.7 (109K)

🏛️Castel Sant'Angelo

Landmark

Rising in a massive drum of brick and travertine above the Tiber, Castel Sant'Angelo has been a mausoleum, a fortress, a prison, and a papal refuge ac…

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Photo: Luca D'Intinosante

★ 4.7 (24K)

🏛️Piazza del Campidoglio

Landmark

Perched atop the Capitoline Hill, this trapezoidal piazza is one of the most perfectly resolved public spaces in Rome, designed by Michelangelo in the…

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Photo: Maria Tanasa Turism Roma (www.turismroma.com)

★ 4.7 (216K)

🏛️Piazza Navona

Landmark

Piazza Navona occupies the exact footprint of an ancient Roman stadium and preserves its elongated oval shape after two thousand years, a fact that st…

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Photo: Dinesh

$$★ 4.5 (13K)

🖼️MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art

Museum

Rome's premier contemporary art institution lives inside Zaha Hadid's audacious 2010 building, a swooping concrete landscape where the architecture is…

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Photo: NOMAD X

$$★ 4.6 (3.5K)

🖼️Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Altemps

Museum

A fifteenth-century cardinal's palazzo a short walk from Piazza Navona now holds some of the most important ancient sculpture in Italy, displayed with…

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Photo: Andrea Astrologo

$$★ 4.4 (4.9K)

🖼️Leonardo Da Vinci Experience Museum

Museum

Step inside a workshop built on the scale of Leonardo's own imagination: this museum fills its rooms with full-size wooden reconstructions of the mach…

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★ 4.9 (10)

🌅Viewpoint of river Tiberis

Viewpoint

A quiet terrace perch above the Tiber offering an unhurried view of the river as it bends through the city, with the Prati skyline and occasionally th…

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Photo: Youssef Walid

★ 4.2 (3K)

🌿Riserva Naturale dell'Insugherata

Nature

Tucked into the northern suburbs between the Trionfale and Ottavia neighborhoods, the Insugherata reserve takes its name from the cork oak trees (sugh…

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Photo: Massimo Giuseppetti

$★ 4.8 (16K)

☕Caffè Delle Commari

Cafe

A neighbourhood cafe whose name, roughly translated, evokes the spirit of gossiping women at the doorstep, and the place lives up to it with a warm, c…

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$★ 4.7 (3K)

☕D’Angelo Caffè & Gastronomia

Cafe

A proper Roman gastronomia in the old sense, D'Angelo does double duty as a neighborhood caffè in the morning and a counter-service lunch destination…

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$$★ 4.7 (4.7K)

🍽️Nerone

Restaurant

Strategically positioned near the Colosseum and the Colle Oppio park, Nerone has been feeding Romans and travelers in this ancient quarter for years w…

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$★ 4.8 (5.8K)

🍽️Pinsitaly Trevi

Restaurant

A clean, modern spot near the Trevi Fountain specialising in pinsa romana, the ancient predecessor to pizza with an oval shape and a light, airy dough…

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$$$$★ 4.3 (682)

🍽️Marco Martini Roma

Restaurant

Chef Marco Martini runs one of Rome's most personal fine-dining rooms in a sleek Testaccio-adjacent space, channelling his southern Italian roots into…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide.

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$$$$★ 4.5 (385)

🍽️Acquolina

Restaurant

Acquolina is Rome's most refined seafood table, where chef Mario Sansone coaxes extraordinary depth from the day's catch in a luminous, contemporary d…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 2 Michelin Stars, confirmed 2026 Guide. Chef Daniele Lippi. Located inside The First Roma Arte Hotel. Specialises in fish and seafood.

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$★ 4.5 (2.3K)

🍸Er Baretto

Bar

A no-frills Roman street-corner bar that does exactly what a good baretto should: strong espresso at the counter, cold beer in the evening, and a clie…

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$$★ 4.6 (4.7K)

🍽️Taverna dei migliori

Restaurant

A snug, candlelit taverna that leans into the Roman trattoria tradition with genuine commitment: expect house-made pasta, seasonal antipasti, and the…

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★ 4.8 (56K)

🏛️Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major

Landmark

The largest of Rome's four papal basilicas dedicated to the Virgin Mary has been in continuous use since the fifth century, and walking its nave, past…

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$$★ 4.5 (5K)

🖼️National Roman Museum, Baths of Diocletian

Museum

The sheer scale of these ruins stops you cold: built around 300 AD to bathe up to three thousand Romans at once, the complex is the largest of the anc…

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Photo: Pietro Scerrato

$$★ 4.7 (93K)

🖼️Uffizi Galleries

Museum

A note of geographic honesty first: the Uffizi Galleries is Florence's great Renaissance museum, not a Rome institution, and no verified Rome branch e…

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$★ 4.8 (8.5K)

🍽️Pane e Salame

Restaurant

A tiny, counter-service spot that does one thing with complete conviction: sandwiches built on good bread with serious Italian charcuterie, aged chees…

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$★ 4.7 (7.1K)

☕Trecaffè - Via dei due Macelli

Cafe

Tucked on Via dei Due Macelli, the narrow street that connects the Spanish Steps to the Trevi Fountain corridor, Trecaffè is a compact, well-run espre…

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★ 4.3 (3.6K)

🌿Veio Regional Park

Nature

Just north of Rome's ring road lies a landscape that most Romans treat as their private countryside: the Veio Regional Park, a rolling expanse of volc…

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★ 4.6 (2K)

🏛️Aurelian Walls

Landmark

Stretching nearly 19 kilometers around Rome, the Aurelian Walls are among the best-preserved ancient fortifications in the world and yet feel almost s…

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Photo: Damian Black

★ 4.8 (77K)

🗿Monument to Victor Emmanuel II

Monument

Romans call it the Vittoriano, or less affectionately the Typewriter or the Wedding Cake, and the sheer white Brescian marble bulk of it at the foot o…

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$$$★ 4.8 (95)

🍽️INEO Restaurant

Restaurant

INEO occupies a spare, gallery-like room inside the MAXXI museum of contemporary art in the Flaminio district, making it the rare Roman restaurant whe…

🏅 1 Michelin Star, new entry (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, NEW in 2026 Guide. Chef Heros De Agostinis. Located inside Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome Hotel, Piazza della Repubblica.

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★ 4.7 (19K)

🖼️Capitoline Museums

Museum

The world's oldest public museums, open since 1471, the Capitoline Museums house some of Rome's most important ancient sculpture across two Renaissanc…

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$$$★ 4.3 (334)

🍽️Achilli al Parlamento Ristorante Enoteca

Restaurant

Steps from Montecitorio, this storied wine shop turned restaurant has been pouring serious bottles to politicians, journalists, and discerning Romans…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (first awarded 2024, confirmed Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, first awarded 2024, confirmed 2026 Guide. Chef Pierluigi Gallo. Originally established as a wine shop in 1972.

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$$$★ 4.6 (1.9K)

🍽️Ambrosia

Restaurant

A quietly serious restaurant in Rome that earns its reputation through careful, market-driven cooking rather than spectacle, Ambrosia offers a menu th…

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$$★ 4.7 (12K)

🍸Benso 215

Bar

A polished aperitivo bar and bistrot on Via Cavour that strikes a confident balance between wine bar and contemporary Roman kitchen, drawing a well-dr…

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$$★ 4.9 (3.2K)

🖼️Galleria Colonna

Museum

One of Rome's great private picture galleries, the Galleria Colonna has been in the same aristocratic family since the Middle Ages and opens to the pu…

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Photo: Emma Kostačová

★ 4.2 (3.9K)

🌿Riserva Naturale di Decima Malafede

Nature

Rome's largest protected natural area stretches across more than 6,000 hectares of coastal plain south of the city, encompassing ancient oak woodland,…

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Photo: Stefano Buttiglieri

★ 4.4 (2.7K)

🌿Riserva Naturale Regionale Nazzano Tevere-Farfa

Nature

About 50 kilometers north of Rome, where the Tiber broadens into a lake-like reservoir and the Farfa tributary joins it, this wetland reserve is one o…

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Photo: Fabio Carnicchia

★ 4.6 (3.2K)

🖼️Villa Farnesina

Museum

One of Rome's most exquisite and least crowded Renaissance experiences, the Villa Farnesina is a 16th-century suburban villa on the banks of the Tiber…

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Photo: Belley Kinga

★ 4.5 (4)

🌅Punto di vista

Viewpoint

The name says it plainly: point of view, and this terrace delivers a genuine Roman panorama without the tour-group crush of the more famous belvederes…

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Photo: Philipp Stiller

★ 4.4 (71K)

🏛️Campo de' Fiori

Landmark

By morning Campo de' Fiori is a working Roman market, stalls loaded with blood oranges, artichokes, fresh herbs, and cheeses under white awnings while…

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Photo: Morten Hindsholm

★ 4.6 (6.3K)

🖼️National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Museum

For travelers who want to understand what ancient Rome actually looked like, this museum delivers with a clarity few others match: the frescoed rooms…

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$$★ 4.6 (1.8K)

🍸Biblio Bar Roma

Bar

A bar and cultural space where books line the walls and the aperitivo hour doubles as a literary salon. The crowd skews creative and local, drawn by r…

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$$$★ 4.8 (8.5K)

🍽️Vattani Elegant Italian Restaurant & Cocktail Bar

Restaurant

A polished address that bridges the worlds of refined Italian cuisine and serious cocktail craft, Vattani draws a well-dressed Roman crowd who come as…

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$$$★ 4.5 (1.1K)

🍽️Moma

Restaurant

Moma occupies a graceful mid-century room just off Via Veneto and has built a loyal following by threading the needle between accessibility and genuin…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Chef Andrea Pasquali. Via di San Basilio 42. Modern minimalist spin on Roman cuisine.🏅 Rick Stein's Long Weekends S1E6, Lisbon. Rick had grilled sardines here.

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$$$$★ 4.6 (355)

🍽️Enoteca La Torre

Restaurant

Set inside the Villa Laetitia, a patrician family home turned boutique hotel on the leafy banks of the Tiber near the Flaminio bridge, Enoteca La Torr…

🏅 2 Michelin Stars (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 2 Michelin Stars, confirmed 2026 Guide. Chef Domenico Stile. Set within Villa Laetitia, Lungotevere delle Armi.

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$$★ 4.5 (1.2K)

🍸L'Emporio alla Pace

Bar

A characterful enoteca and small plates spot tucked in the lanes near Piazza della Pace, the kind of place where shelves of carefully chosen bottles c…

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$$★ 4.8 (5K)

🍸CiPASSO

Bar

A wine bar with a focused, intelligent list that leans into natural and small-producer Italian labels, CiPASSO is the kind of place where the person p…

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$$★ 4.8 (2.2K)

🍽️Rione XIV Bistrot

Restaurant

Named for Rome's historic Borgo district, the fourteenth rione, this bistrot sits in the shadow of the Vatican walls and serves a thoughtful Italian m…

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★ 4.7 (26K)

🌅Janiculum Hill

Viewpoint

The Janiculum is the viewpoint that Romans keep for themselves: not as tall as the Pincio, not as famous as the Aventine keyhole, but offering a sweep…

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Photo: Neil Joshi

$$★ 4.5 (5.1K)

🖼️Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi

Museum

Occupying the last great baroque palazzo built in Rome, right on Piazza Navona, Palazzo Braschi houses the civic history of Rome from the medieval per…

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Photo: Freeze Kiwii

★ 4.2 (5.3K)

🌿Riserva Naturale della Marcigliana

Nature

A sweep of rolling Campagna farmland north of Rome, the Marcigliana reserve feels startlingly rural for a place reachable by city bus, its hedgerow-li…

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Photo: Salvatore Alagna

★ 4.7 (439)

🌅Monte Ciocci - Belvedere Ettore Scola

Viewpoint

A low, scruffy hill behind the Vatican that most tourists never think to climb, Monte Ciocci rewards the curious with a terrace view that frames St. P…

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★ 4.7 (197K)

🏛️Tower of Pisa

Landmark

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of those rare places that somehow exceeds expectations in person: the degree of tilt, visible to the naked eye from a…

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🏛️Centro Storico

Landmark

The Centro Storico is the compressed, largely car-free heart of Rome built on the bend of the Tiber, a layered accumulation of ancient temples, Baroqu…

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Photo: Lorenzo Cordi

$$★ 4.5 (11K)

🍽️Alla Rampa

Restaurant

Tucked near the base of the Spanish Steps, Alla Rampa is one of those rare Roman trattorias that has resisted the tourist-trap gravity of its address…

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$$$$★ 4.4 (723)

🍽️Glass Hostaria

Restaurant

Trastevere's most architecturally arresting restaurant sits in a medieval building whose centuries-old stone walls have been sliced open with dramatic…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026); Chef Cristina Bowerman, Trastevere🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Contemporary, inventive cuisine in Trastevere.

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Photo: Irene Guidobaldi

$$★ 4.7 (23K)

☕RoYaL Art Cafè

Cafe

RoYaL Art Cafè leans into its name with art-covered walls, an eclectic decorative sensibility, and an atmosphere that sits somewhere between gallery a…

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$$$★ 4.8 (325)

🍽️Pulejo ristorante

Restaurant

Pulejo is one of Rome's more quietly compelling recent openings, a small and personal restaurant where chef Emanuele Pulejo draws on his Sicilian root…

🏅 1 Michelin Star (Michelin Guide Italy 2026)🏅 1 Michelin Star, confirmed 2026 Guide. Located in Prati area near Vatican City.

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