Ten days in Rome: My final plan

If you didn’t already read about how I went about planning for my trip to Rome, go ahead. I’ll wait.

Now, just over a week before I leave, I think I’ve got all the planning settled. I’ve identified a lot of churches, museums, and other sights I hope to see. I’ve pre-booked tour for certain things, and this creates some structure, so I won’t have to completely improvise each day. I’ll plan to see things based on where I’ll be before and after each pre-booked activity.

Here is my day-by-day itinerary. Open times are for seeing those churches and museums, eating (meals plus gelato), wandering aimlessly, doing laundry, shopping, and resting.

My Daily Itinerary

Expand each date to see what’s on the agenda. Be sure to click the links to find out all about the tours I’m taking.

Rick Steves Walks and Tours

In addition to all the stuff above, Rick Steves offers self-guided tours in his Rome guidebook and in his Audio Europe app. Some of these duplicate the tours I’m already signed up for, but I do intend to do some of them.

• Audio tours
  • Colosseum
  • Heart of Rome Walk
  • Jewish Ghetto Walk
  • Ostia Antica, Pantheon
  • Roman Forum
  • Sistine Chapel
  • St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Trastevere Walk
  • Vatican Museums
• Guidebook tours
  • Pantheon
  • Palatine Hill
  • Capitoline Museums
  • St. Peter-in-Chains
  • Borghese Gallery
  • National Museum of Rome
  • Pilgrim’s Rome
  • Ancient Appian Way

And the itinerary continues…

Read about the second part of my trip, my tour to Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia.