Syt in Rome - 22nd October

[Hamilcar]

Hit up a local (tourist-free) restaurant.

[The Larch]

With only one day, and if you're into classical stuff, I'd restrict myself to Colosseum - Imperial Forums - Pantheon - Capitoline Museums (if there's time). The Colosseum on a saturday will be ultra crowded, so consider getting the premium ticket that allows you to jump the queue. Save some time in the evening just to walk around aimlessly around the city center, in the Campo dei Fiori - Piazza Navona - Trevi Fountain - Piazza di Spagna general area. Have a gelatto or several (Giolitti and Della Palma, near the Pantheon - Piazza Colonna, would be my sugestions).

[lustindarkness]

Hit up a local (tourist-free) restaurant.

This!

Syt, if you are not afraid of lonely out of the way dark alley behind a church: Da Tonino- Trattoria Bassetti, Via del Governo Vecchio, 18, 00186 Roma, Italy

Very Small, very local, not touristy, just enough English to feed you some good food. We were referred by the lady from the bed and breakfast we stayed at.

[Jacob]

Even though it's not classical, I think it would be amiss for you to not visit the Capuchin Crypt. It's pretty metal.

[Savonarola]

With only one day, and if you're into classical stuff, I'd restrict myself to Colosseum - Imperial Forums - Pantheon - Capitoline Museums (if there's time). The Colosseum on a saturday will be ultra crowded, so consider getting the premium ticket that allows you to jump the queue. Save some time in the evening just to walk around aimlessly around the city center, in the Campo dei Fiori - Piazza Navona - Trevi Fountain - Piazza di Spagna general area. Have a gelatto or several (Giolitti and Della Palma, near the Pantheon - Piazza Colonna, would be my sugestions).

This is what I would do if I had only one day in Rome.  If you're into the renaissance (Huzzah!) and the baroque St. Peters, the Vatican Museum and Castel St. Angelo would be a good day.  If you're really into the baroque then do the Galleria Borghese and see the Bernini square with the fountain of the four rivers.  If you're really into Lovecraft  () see the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna and witness (what he thought was) the horrors of Futurism ( ).

[Razgovory]

St. Pete's is extremely impressive.  Tyr's kind of anti-Christian so maybe he should avoid churches.

[Barrister]

St. Pete's is extremely impressive.  Tyr's kind of anti-Christian so maybe he should avoid churches.

St Peter's is perhaps the only part of Rome I didn't care for - just to big and showy.

But I recommend the "just go and find almost any random restaurant" advice - I had some fantastic seafood risotto at a hole the wall Roman restaurant...

[Syt]

Great tips, thanks. 

I may hang with a colleague or two who also stay there. Our finance head's husband is coming; he's a huge history buff, so it would be fun to explore with him.

[Admiral Yi]

Watch out for the gypsy kids!

[Josquius]

St. Pete's is extremely impressive.  Tyr's kind of anti-Christian so maybe he should avoid churches.

I like cathedrals. They're the main thing to see in most European cities.
St Peters though despite being the top cathedral isn't actually all that special. Just big

[Razgovory]

It's not a cathedral. The enormous gold piece above the alter really impressed me.

[garbon]

St. Pete's is extremely impressive.  Tyr's kind of anti-Christian so maybe he should avoid churches.

I like cathedrals. They're the main thing to see in most European cities.
St Peters though despite being the top cathedral isn't actually all that special. Just big

Yeah right. It is quite impressive.

[The Larch]

St Peter's is perhaps the only part of Rome I didn't care for - just to big and showy.

Too big and showy? Not a fan of the baroque style, I guess.  Damned calvinists...

[The Larch]

St. Pete's is extremely impressive.  Tyr's kind of anti-Christian so maybe he should avoid churches.

I like cathedrals. They're the main thing to see in most European cities.
St Peters though despite being the top cathedral isn't actually all that special. Just big

Yeah right. It is quite impressive.

Indeed. Just big? St. Pete's has stuff in its tiniest side chapel that would be national treasures almost in any other country in the world.

[Pedrito]

To all the good suggestions already written, I add:

- Centrale Montemartini: it's an old power station refitted as a roman sculpture museum. Nice contrast of turn-of-the-century dark steel machinery and 2000-years-old marble (if you want a sneak peek, you can watch the first minutes of The Ignorant Faeries, a film by Ferzan Ozpetek. And, after the first minutes, you can stop watching it without regrets :-P)
- Take some time at home to study the Trajan Market beside the Forum, then go visit it; it's a very clever use of an area that was very limited in space, and one of the most interesting showcases of architectural techniques the Romans were masters of.

L.