Rome is a city where every cobblestone street, piazza, and ancient ruin tells a story that has been centuries in the making.

For centuries, Rome, Italy, has been a city of great importance. Once the center of the ancient Roman empire, today it’s one of the most popular cities in the world for tourists, with millions ...

Say the words “Roman art,” and your average listener will likely think of classical statues, ornate churches and the masterworks of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and their contemporaries. But to a select, ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city crowded with both the seamy and stately. Clockwise from left: Centrale Montemartini museum; Santo Stefano Rotondo; Villa dei ...

With the new season of Emily in Paris kicking things off in the Italian capital, Amira Arasteh shares her insider tips ...

Two dozen works from museums and private collectors around the world are on display, with some reunited for the first time in centuries. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Some 430 years after ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

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