Ten days in Rome: My final plan

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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

Monday 30 September

Volaris flight 151, depart GDL 21:57, arrive MEX 23:30

Tuesday 1 October

Turkish Airlines flight 190, depart MEX 03:45

Wednesday 2 October

Arrive IST 04:45

Turkish Airlines flight 1865, depart IST 12:50, arrive FCO 14:30

Check in to Airbnb in Trastevere

Evening walk around the neighborhood

Thursday 3 October

Wonders of Rome walking tour (10:00–13:00)

Rest of the day open

Friday 4 October

Colosseum Tour with Roman Forum and Palatine Hill (08:30–11:30)

Rest of the day open

Saturday 5 October

Palazzo Colonna visit (09:15)

Rest of the day open

Sunday 6 October

Possible day trip to Orvieto, or full day open

Monday 7 October

Key Master’s Tour of the Vatican (06:00–08:00)

Rest of the day open

Tuesday 8 October

Jewish Roma Walking Tour: The Ghetto and the Jewish Museum (10:00–13:00)

Mid-afternoon open

Pasta-Making Class (16:15–19:15)

Wednesday October 9

Morning and afternoon open

Borghese Gallery and Museum (17:00–19:00)

Thursday 10 October

Ostia Antica tour (8:00–13:00)

Afternoon open

Trastevere at Sunset: Food & Wine Tour (17:30–21:00)

Friday 11 October

Morning and afternoon open

Peter Grimes at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (20:00–23:00)

Saturday 12 October

Tivoli Day Trip (09:00–17:00)

Sunday 13 October

Aegean Airlines flight 651, depart FCO 09:30

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.

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