Rome, the eternal city and the world’s largest open-air museum, is an ancient city, intertwined with modernity, an enchanting masterpiece. Proud of its glorious ancient heritage, Rome is a city that once expanded its empire throughout Europe, Africa and Asia.
It’s impossible to see all the top attractions in Rome in a few days. Instead, to ensure a return to Rome, toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain, where legend has it that those who do will always return to Rome. Rome divides into several districts with its centre, the Colosseo district, containing ancient attractions like the Colosseum, Capitoline Hill and the Roman Forum. On the centre’s outskirts is Old Rome, featuring the Pantheon, stunning cathedrals, plazas and Renaissance architecture.
Rome brims with history, glamour and elegance. The world’s celebrated fashion designers display their latest collections, making Rome a bonafide temple to high fashion. You will find one-off designs, along with talented tailors and dressmakers offering top-quality personalisation. Shoppers are enthralled by jewellers’ abundant windows, interspersed with ateliers and shops full of exquisite china and artworks.
Defoes Lifestyle will arrange a wonderful trip to Rome, taking in its overwhelming magnificence, history and culture. Whilst staying in high-end accommodation and enjoying the finest Italian cuisine.
THINGS TO DO
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Things To Do
THE TREVI FOUNTAIN
The Trevi Fountain is one of the world’s most beautiful fountains, and a fountain has been present on the site since 19 BC. Giuseppe Pannini and several others completed the current incarnation, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi. It is the largest Baroque fountain in the city, 26.3 metres high and 49.15 metres wide. Since 1954 there has been a tradition of throwing coins into the fountain after a film established a modern myth. If you throw in one coin, you will return to Rome. If you throw in two coins, you will fall in love with an attractive Italian, and three coins mean that you will marry the person you met.
THE SISTINE CHAPPEL
The Sistine Chapel, famous for its frescoes, depicting biblical narratives by Michelangelo and other Renaissance masters, was originally known as the Cappella Magna. It is inside the Apostolic Palace, the pope’s official residence in Vatican City. The chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Principal papal ceremonies take place within the chapel, along with the election of a new pope, by the Sacred College of Cardinals.
