2 Days in Rome

2 Days in Rome are good for visiting the eternal city more peacefully than you could do in one day. The itinerary is a little bit different because there are important and beautiful things that not everyone knows.

DAY ONE

Morning: Colosseum and the Basilica of San Clemente

Start with the Colosseum: it takes around two hours for visiting and queuing up (keep the ticket) and then following via San Giovanni in Laterano, behind the Colosseum, you reach the Basilica of San Clemente. Its excavations show the ruins and the ashes of the Roman houses destroyed in the fire of Nero. There are a series of halls and passages and it seems to be in a labyrinth. You go down at a depth of 15 meters. It’s amazing.

Lunch: Li Rioni restaurant, in via dei Santi Quattro, 24

Afternoon: San Peter in Chains and Imperial Fora.

In the same area of Colosseum, in Via Eudossiana ,there is the Faculty of Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome with its Italian Renaissance cloister by Giuliano Sangallo, next to the church of San Peter in Chains which hosts the beautiful Michelangelo’s Moses statue. Then you can start the visit to the Imperial For a with the same ticket you bought for Colosseum.

Dinner: La Taverna degli Amici in Piazza Margana.

DAY TWO

Morning: Basilica of San Pietro and Castel Sant’Angelo

The queue at the Basilica of San Pietro takes few minutes and anyway you will not regret it. From Piazza San Pietro through Via della Conciliazione, you reach Castel Sant’Angelo with its history of fortified outpost, prison, house of the Renaissance and now museum.

Lunch: one of the restaurant of Borgo Pio.

Afternoon: Piazza Navona, San’Ivo alla Sapienza,  Pantheon, Fontana di Trevi, Santa Rota da Cascia church, Piazza di Spagna Step.

From Castel Sant’Angelo you go through Ponte UmbertoI and you are in Piazza Navona that once was full of water for sea battles. In Corso Rinascimento there is Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, the first University in Rome: you can visit the church only on Sunday morning. If you are fine in the same area there are some Caravaggio’s works in the churches of San Luigi dei Francesi and Sant’Agostino.  Now you are ready for Pantheon and Fontana di Trevi. Near the Fontana di Trevi, in via delle Vergini, you find the church of Santa Rita da Cascia that has a very particular thing: the Lourdes’ chapel is a grotto. At the end you reach Piazza di Spagna with its beautiful step.

Dinner: you can choose between Pizzeria Ai Marmi, Viale Trastevere, 53, or La Scala Resturant, piazza della Scala, 71.