Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

“To enter the basin of the Trevi Fountain, tourists and non-residents must pay a ticket costing €2.” So instructs the Major ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

“Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with Sotterranei di Roma, Undergrounds of Rome, a local group whose members explore ...

A new pedestrian square and walkway connecting Rome’s historic center to the Vatican and renovations to the Trevi Fountain are among the upgrades included tied to the expected influx of 32 million ...

A painting of the library in the house of Domitian on the Palatine. Rome's long history is explored in a new illustrated book on archaeology and history. Wikimedia Commons Rome wasn’t built in a day, ...

Ancient Rome, initially a settlement on seven hills, grew from simple villages into a powerful city-state. These hills, including Palatine and Capitoline, played distinct roles in its history, from ...

The vast site of Portus holds the key to understanding how Rome evolved from a mighty city to an empire Portus, now some two miles from the Mediterranean shoreline, was built by the Romans in the 1st ...

City of Seven Hills: The title “City of Seven Hills” belongs to Rome, the capital of Italy. This historic name comes from the seven small hills on which ancient Rome was built. These hills are ...