Rome is one of the best destinations to travel to with your little loved ones. It is abound with ruins and churches, but also many attractions that the children will like too. The children will be very happy to be there, experiencing this beautiful capital. The delicious menu of pizza and ice cream is sure to win their hearts if all else fails.
- Rome with kidsRene Cunningham / Foter / CC BY
Below we offer some of the best reasons to make this trip to Rome with kids.
1. Underground
Nothing more frightening than to venture in the claustrophobic corridors of the catacombs, a network of burial niches dug into the ground that the first Christians and other sects used as their hiding place against the imperial harassment.
- Rome catacombsjimforest / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
2. Strength and honor
The safe level of excitement does not decay in the Coliseum. Even the children will enjoy this part as long as they don’t know about the cruel side of it, but the side of gladiators and the honour they carried in their heroic fights in the Coliseum
- Rome ColiseumBert Kaufmann / Foter / CC BY-SA
3. Touch the Sky
Vertigo is the climb to the cross crowning basilica of San Pedro, 133 meters high. There are two options. You can either ascending 551 steps up a corridor leaning parallel to the dome or in the elevator that takes you just over halfway and always has a queue. The first option for children is not an issue since they probably won’t even stop to rest. Upstairs panoramic breathtaking display with steeples dawning the hundreds of churches await, the seven hills and the Tiber disappearing just around the Gianicolo hill. If the children eventually get tired after all the climbing you can always kick back at the Friendly Rentals Rome and relax until the next challenge.
- Vertigo RomePaloma+Luismi / Foter / CC BY-NC
4. It has a castle!
Just below the basilica starts the corridor through which the Popes fled to Castle Sant’Angelo. This cylindrical mole is a great place for another visit. Built as a mausoleum for the Emperor Hadrian, it keeps the bullet holes view. A large tunnel that took up and down the pontifical troops sucks visitors and takes you from gloomy chambers to the esplanade above, another excellent viewpoint.
5. Rugen beasts
The best place to let the kids run without one having to worry about cars, are the historic gardens of Villa Borghese, a beautiful English-style park. In the complex there is the famous Borghese Gallery with works by Caravaggio, Raphael and Bernini, but the small ones certainly prefer to see the beasts of the zoo which is not the largest they have ever seen but the most romantic.
6. Pizza! Ice Cream!
Roma is a pizza paradise. It is sold at every corner and it is precisely those positions at street level which often carry the biggest applause of the kids. Of these, we recommend the Forno Campo di Fiori, where children receive a piece while the olders wait in queue. Finally, an ice cream is the perfect thing to leave the children happy and few sites are as creamy as Giolitti.
