Tour Rome
Whether you are a degree-seeking student at John Cabot University or a study abroad student, your time in Rome will speed by; before you know it, it will be time to return home and you’ve never seen the Forum.
Embrace your inner tourist
If at all possible, take some time before starting your studies to be a tourist. You may have an opportunity to see these sites again with a professor as tour guide, but in case your studies don’t take you in the direction of San Pietro (St. Peter’s), you’ll want to take in, Michelangelo’s Pietà, Bernini’s Baldacchino canopy, Raphael’s Rooms, the Vatican Museums (rooms that stretch nearly nine miles and that include the Sistine Chapel) and the remarkable St. Peter’s Square.
There are many must-see sites, including the Palatine Hill, the Capitoine Hill and museums, the Pantheon, the Via Appia and the Catacombs, the Colosseum, Piazza Navona, the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps.
Once you’ve done your duty as a tourist, you’ll discover that Rome is best experienced wandering from alley to alley and piazza to piazza, stopping for cappuccino or gelato to watch the colorful parade of Romans and tourists.
Rome, too, comes alive at night. The city lights its famous fountains and monuments like a movie set and in the shadows you’ll find young lovers, university students, families and elderly couples holding hands, enjoying Rome’s clear temperate evenings.
Savor your Roman holiday; it will be time to study all too soon!
Click here for the
Tourism Portal of the City of Rome