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Rome with kids: five days between ruins, gelato, and honest exhaustion

Rome punishes the unprepared tourist, and it punishes twice as hard those who arrive with kids. The sampietrini cobblestones shred tired ankles, the Vatican line stretches 800 meters on a normal August day, and decent gelato costs 4.50 € while the bad tourist version costs 6 €. But Rome works with kids aged 4 to 11. It works if you accept that half the itinerary will be sacrificed, that Villa Borghese is worth more than three Baroque churches combined, and that pizza al taglio bought at Bonci at 1 p.m. saves more days than any fancy restaurant reservation. I took my 7-year-old son and my 10-year-old niece in May 2024 and this five-day itinerary is what survived after cutting what didn't work.

Curadoria Voyspark · May 08 · 🇮🇹 Roma