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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