I am not a city girl. I find cities overwhelming most of the time. While I love all of the events to choose from and events to attend, I dislike most of the day-to-day realities of city life. The packed metros, pushy bus riders, angry postal clients, inexplicably closed administrative offices. So every week I […]
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Rome, Things to Do in Rome
Free Rome Museums and Monuments the First Sunday of the Month (Domenica al Museo)
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May
May
Update 2023: After some confusion and cancellations over the past years, Domenica al Museo is officially back! The Rome free Sunday is on every month and works as detailed below. The first Sunday of every month, cultural sites run by the state are totally free in Rome. That means that once a month, you have […]
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Mar
Mar
In keeping with the Rome-free Sundays, this week we hopped on the train to Bracciano. Bracciano is a small hilltop town in Lazio that overlooks (you guessed it) Lake Bracciano. We got off the train and I proudly announced: “Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got married here at that castle. There. That’s the extent of […]