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Great news if you are visiting Rome with your young children: The Colosseum is now waiving the entrance fee for anyone under 18 years of age. Rome tour guide Giovanni Tanoni (one of Dream of Italy’s best tour guides in Italy) just contacted us to let us know that children will no longer need to pay 13.50 euros to enter …
Someone neglected to tell Rome’s Colosseum that there’s a tower in Pisa that has cornered the market the whole “leaning” thing. Italian officials announced Tuesday that the south side of the Colosseum may now be 15 inches lower than the north side of the 2,000-year old monument. “The concrete foundation on which the Colosseum is built is an oval-shaped ‘doughnut’ which is 13 metres …
Reactions have been mixed to the Italian government’s decision to put 3,000 soldiers in the streets of Italian cities in an effort to help police fight crime. Rome in particular will receive 1,000 troops in the decision, which has been put into effect starting today and which will use the troops to patrol embassies, government buildings, metro stations and an …
