This list was immediately forgotten upon entering the country.
100 Things to do in Rome
1. Play in a fountain
2. Go wine tasting
3. Play European football
4. See how long we can ride the bus without getting kicked off
5. Go to an outdoor concert/play
6. Become great orators like Cicero
7. Go to the pasta museum
8. Make your own pasta
9. Get lost...intentionally
10. Go on a bike tour
11. Eat pizza topped with a word you've never heard before
12. Ride brightly colored moped...if we must steal someone's, then so be it.
13. Meet the pope
14. Get an old Italian man to buy you a drink. Bonus points if he's wearing a linen suit
15. Dress in a toga, stand in front of the coliseum and take pictures with tourists.
16. Stay out all night long
17. Invite our Italian neighbors for dinner
18. Have a picnic in a roman park
19. Shop for the perfect Italian leather journal
20. Find a favorite coffee shop and get to know the owners
21. Go a whole day speaking only Italian
22. Drink limoncello
23. Go to the opera
24. Tan on Tiber Island
25. Ride in a smart car
26. Take one of the on campus cooking classes
27. Always ride in the window seat when on trains
28. Study outside in some beautiful park
29. Have at least ten Facebook albums
30. Attend mass at St. Peter’s
31. Ride a gondola in Venice
32. Use the buddy system
33. Find the Gladiator School of Rome
34. Go to the Obika Mozzarella Bar
35. Share gelato with a man!
36. Hard Rock Café Rome
37. Go to the bars in Campo de’ Fiori at night so we can see the spooky Giordano statue
38. See a puppet show in the Piazzale Garibaldi or the Park Gianicolo
39. Find out how to say, “Will you take a picture with me?” And use it… on boys!
40. Stick your hand in La Bocca della Verita
41. Host a toga party, using the sheets we get from the apartments
42. learn a gourmet recipe
43. Get lost in the Roman Forum
44. Bike tipsy
45. Find a favorite wine
46. Pick grapes for wine at a vineyard
47. Get a picture with the Swiss Guards – bonus points if you can get them to chunk a duce
48. Have a café where they know your name and your order
49. Have a group and a place you go to each week, or have a group that goes out once a week to try lots of restaurants
50. Watch snow fall in the Pantheon, or at least rain
51. Go to the Ice Club and drink something warm(ing)
52. Visit the crypt of the Cappuchin friars in the church of Santa Maria della Concezione, a monastery where, since 1631, the walls and ceilings have been elaborately decorated with the bones of 4,000 monks
53. Chase nymphs in Caffarella
54. Free food at the Glass Hostaria – make a reservation at Top Table and dinner is free!
55. Get free pastries at a bakery at closing time
56. Attend White Night – September night of open museums, cultural events and fireworks
57. Walk on the Appian Way
58. Visit the Catacombs
59. Go to a Roman soccer game-cheer for Lazio or Roma!! ("By the way, the word for 'fan' in Italian is 'tifoso'. Derived from the word for typhus. In other words-one who is mightily fevered"...from my book)
60. visit Piazza del Popolo-with an arch carved by Bernini to honor Queen Christina of Sweden
61. Visit Palazzo Borghese
62. COOL FACT: the Tiber Island has always been associated with healing-a Temple of Aesculapius was built there after a plague in 291 BC; in the Middle Ages a hospital was built there by a group of monks called the Fatebenefratelli...and there is hospital there to this day
63. Visit the Augusteum (a mausoleum intended for Octavian Augustus but has been everything from a Renaissance garden, concert hall, bullring, and fireworks depository)
64. BEST PIZZA IN NAPLES...pizzeria da Michele
65. Visit Piazza della Republica
66. Bargain successfully at the Sunday morning flea market Porta Portese
67. Swim/ride in an aquaduct
68. Climb all 7 hills of Rome
69. See someone famous
70. Find the Pons Sublicius (the first bridge Trastevere
71. Find Caesar’s garden villa, the Horti Caesaris
1. Play in a fountain
2. Go wine tasting
3. Play European football
4. See how long we can ride the bus without getting kicked off
5. Go to an outdoor concert/play
6. Become great orators like Cicero
7. Go to the pasta museum
8. Make your own pasta
9. Get lost...intentionally
10. Go on a bike tour
11. Eat pizza topped with a word you've never heard before
12. Ride brightly colored moped...if we must steal someone's, then so be it.
13. Meet the pope
14. Get an old Italian man to buy you a drink. Bonus points if he's wearing a linen suit
15. Dress in a toga, stand in front of the coliseum and take pictures with tourists.
16. Stay out all night long
17. Invite our Italian neighbors for dinner
18. Have a picnic in a roman park
19. Shop for the perfect Italian leather journal
20. Find a favorite coffee shop and get to know the owners
21. Go a whole day speaking only Italian
22. Drink limoncello
23. Go to the opera
24. Tan on Tiber Island
25. Ride in a smart car
26. Take one of the on campus cooking classes
27. Always ride in the window seat when on trains
28. Study outside in some beautiful park
29. Have at least ten Facebook albums
30. Attend mass at St. Peter’s
31. Ride a gondola in Venice
32. Use the buddy system
33. Find the Gladiator School of Rome
34. Go to the Obika Mozzarella Bar
35. Share gelato with a man!
36. Hard Rock Café Rome
37. Go to the bars in Campo de’ Fiori at night so we can see the spooky Giordano statue
38. See a puppet show in the Piazzale Garibaldi or the Park Gianicolo
39. Find out how to say, “Will you take a picture with me?” And use it… on boys!
40. Stick your hand in La Bocca della Verita
41. Host a toga party, using the sheets we get from the apartments
42. learn a gourmet recipe
43. Get lost in the Roman Forum
44. Bike tipsy
45. Find a favorite wine
46. Pick grapes for wine at a vineyard
47. Get a picture with the Swiss Guards – bonus points if you can get them to chunk a duce
48. Have a café where they know your name and your order
49. Have a group and a place you go to each week, or have a group that goes out once a week to try lots of restaurants
50. Watch snow fall in the Pantheon, or at least rain
51. Go to the Ice Club and drink something warm(ing)
52. Visit the crypt of the Cappuchin friars in the church of Santa Maria della Concezione, a monastery where, since 1631, the walls and ceilings have been elaborately decorated with the bones of 4,000 monks
53. Chase nymphs in Caffarella
54. Free food at the Glass Hostaria – make a reservation at Top Table and dinner is free!
55. Get free pastries at a bakery at closing time
56. Attend White Night – September night of open museums, cultural events and fireworks
57. Walk on the Appian Way
58. Visit the Catacombs
59. Go to a Roman soccer game-cheer for Lazio or Roma!! ("By the way, the word for 'fan' in Italian is 'tifoso'. Derived from the word for typhus. In other words-one who is mightily fevered"...from my book)
60. visit Piazza del Popolo-with an arch carved by Bernini to honor Queen Christina of Sweden
61. Visit Palazzo Borghese
62. COOL FACT: the Tiber Island has always been associated with healing-a Temple of Aesculapius was built there after a plague in 291 BC; in the Middle Ages a hospital was built there by a group of monks called the Fatebenefratelli...and there is hospital there to this day
63. Visit the Augusteum (a mausoleum intended for Octavian Augustus but has been everything from a Renaissance garden, concert hall, bullring, and fireworks depository)
64. BEST PIZZA IN NAPLES...pizzeria da Michele
65. Visit Piazza della Republica
66. Bargain successfully at the Sunday morning flea market Porta Portese
67. Swim/ride in an aquaduct
68. Climb all 7 hills of Rome
69. See someone famous
70. Find the Pons Sublicius (the first bridge Trastevere
71. Find Caesar’s garden villa, the Horti Caesaris
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