Italy
About Rome
Rome doesn't preserve its history behind glass; it simply keeps living on top of it, parking scooters against two-thousand-year-old columns.
The Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon-monuments that would headline any other city-are just things you pass on the way to lunch. Fountains splash in every piazza, churches hide Caravaggios, and the Vatican holds a whole separate country's worth of art.
It's chaotic, loud and gloriously indifferent to your schedule, run by Romans who have watched empires come and go.
Eat cacio e pepe, fried supplì and a gelato by the Pantheon, and surrender to the chaos.
Get to Rome
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Buses from Rome
Day trips from Rome
- Half day
Ostia Antica
~40 min
Rome's ancient harbour city, preserved nearly as well as Pompeii but only a suburban train away — mosaic floors, taverns, apartment blocks and a theatre still used on summer evenings.
- Half day
Tivoli
~45 min
Two UNESCO-listed villas in one hill town: Villa d'Este, a Renaissance garden of five hundred fountains, and below it the sprawling ruins of Emperor Hadrian's country palace.
- Day trip
Civita di Bagnoregio
~2 h, ~2.5 h 
The 'dying town': a crumbling Etruscan hill village on an eroding tufa pinnacle, reachable only by a footbridge over a canyon of badlands. A few residents, a few cats, an unforgettable silhouette.
About Italy
Backstreets, coastline and lunch
Etruscan hills, Baroque cities and volcanic islands, with the cooking changing every fifty kilometres and nobody rushing any of it.
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