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Driving Rome | Simon Heptinstall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

It could be Europe’s worst driving city. Tourists never try. Even Italians from other cities baulk at attempting routes that can change from a narrow potholed cobbled alleyway to high-speed dual-carriageway – and back – in a few hundred yards

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Favourite Hotels Outside Rome | Martin O'Brien | Italy, Lazio, Rome

When in Rome, do as the Romans do: leave the city at the weekend and set out to explore the coast or the countryside. You'll find hotels luxurious enough to meet the most exacting standards

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Hotels in Rome | Jamie Dunford Wood | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Rome is a hard city to find good accommodation in.

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Letting the train take the strain | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Oh, the effortless elegance of rail travel. White linen in the dining car, watching the sun set over the Tuscan coast, then golden slumbers all the way to Paris, lulled by the clackety-clack of the wheels on the track

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Roman Demons | Fiona Dunlop | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Our straw-hatted tour guide, Dion, is a bright-eyed, diminutive New Zealander who we later learn is a psychiatric nurse on leave. Very appropriate

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Rome | Mark Hudson | Italy, Lazio, Rome

It’s dusk as we stagger, dripping, into Piazza Navona. The black cobbles look damp with perspiration. The ancient buildings, their facades washed in wonderful shades of orange, ochre and red

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Rome: A General Introduction | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Just across the grass from John Keats, whose name lies writ in water in Rome's Protestant Cemetry, is a pyramid. A pretty large one too - build in 12AD as a funerary monument for a wealthy praetor with exotic tastes

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Rome: a personal memoir | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

It’s the sheer theatricality of the place that hits you first. That obelisk, flanked by four Napoleonic lions spewing water. The symmetrical Baroque churches on the far side

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Ten Cautions of Rome | Stuart Wolfendale | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Real men do not eat quiche, drive Volkswagen cabriolets or have wheely luggage. You would think that Italian men, so tightly bound in machismo plastic wrap, would appreciate this but apparently, when it comes to luggage, they think as camp as a trolley dolly

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When in Rome… | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Inexplicably, many visitors consider Roman traffic to be chaotic and terrifying. To cross effectively, do what the locals do. Pick your spot - zebra crossing or no zebra crossing

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Why Go To Rome? | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Because it's there. Because it's dripping with history. But also because it is a vibrant capital city, which offers a slice of real life so often missing in tourist-swamped Venice or Florence

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