Rome, Italy Travel News

LEAVE St Peter's Basilica and the Vatican behind for the narrow medieval streets of the atmospheric Trastevere district on a Roman hoiday with a difference.

Textbooks for architecture courses vary from dense manuals to fictional novels, but none is as rich or as enormous as the city of Rome.

Rome is an exquisite city and its charm and beauty cannot be matched. You will love the people and the sights and smells of the city are extraordinary.

Welcome to our new trip-planning column. I'm so glad our first volunteers, who asked for help with an anniversary jaunt to Italy, didn't want to do Florence, Venice and Rome.

It's almost certain that a few Roman gods will strike me down for saying this, but here it is: What Rome really needs is a Walgreens.

A visitor looks at a picture on display at an exhibition of paintings by Han and Tibetan artists in Rome, capital of Italy, Oct.

Wednesday 21 October 2009 Tour Il Duce's Rome ALONG the wide, straight Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Colosseum, sightseers look at a series of maps showing the growth of the Roman Empire: just a dot on the west coast of the Italian peninsula ... Full Story Travel briefs: Gulf Air commences service to Najaf BAHRAIN: Gulf Air, the national carrier ...

The holidays are fast approaching and many hotels are offering special holiday rates and packages available now through the New Year! Offers include low rates in Rome, a feast on the beach in Puerto Rico, unlimited golfing in Florida and incredible value and events in Mexico, New Mexico and New Orleans! All you have to do is decide where you want ...

Portugal is one of the lower-cost destinations in Western Europe. The 16th-century Jeronimos Monastery is in Lisbon, its capital.

The sights, sounds and smells that Rome offers visitors could satisfy for a lifetime, and while 48 hours will not do justice to the eternal city, ABC News has compiled a taste of things to do if you are only going to be there for a couple of days.

Rome just celebrated its 2,761st birthday and keeps on spilling out its ancient clues and secrets.

Rome is one of the most beautiful places in the world and is home to world famous art and history.

The cheerful, Italian-accented voice boomed out of my answering machine: "I hear you're going to Rome.

Behind the lens: On a nighttime walk with his daughter on their first night in Rome, Holm says, "We went out without any idea of where we would be going.

Along the wide, straight Via dei Fori Imperiali near the Colosseum, sightseers often stop to look at a series of maps showing the growth of the Roman Empire: just a dot on the west coast of the Italian peninsula in the 8th century BC, larger in the next two panels, then at its most expansive in the fourth tablet when the Roman world stretched from ...

Where to stay: Panoramic views of the Eternal City and a private 15-acre park are the signatures of the five-star Rome Cavalieri, a Waldorf-Astoria property.

Determining what art and attractions in Rome to visit, take into consideration that for the past two thousand years, Rome was the location for the birth of Christianity, invented culinary dishes enjoyed throughout the world, raised and was home to many famous artists, and was world capital during the reign of the Roman Empire.

One of our travel guidebooks gave us a "heads-up" regarding the personality of Ravenna: "It doesn't know how good it is!" A small city nestled on the eastern most calf of the "boot" in northern Italy, an hour and a half south of the Gulf of Venice by train, and by car, just an hour east of Bologna where we had just spent five days, Ravenna is ...

An unidentified man peers into a recently unearthed brick structure incorporating a 4-meter-diameter pillar, seen in the background, discovered during maintenance work in the Roman Forum.

This is amazing. Archaeologists digging on Rome's Palatine Hill have unearthed what they believe to be Nero's revolving banquet hall , which has been referenced in ancient biographies of the Roman emperor.