The historical area in the city center is much bigger than people think, it could take 3/4 days just walking around to see everything, without stopping for a visit, so take that into account.
Also, it's pretty hot right now (around 35-37 degrees Celsius), mind that too.
I won't give you the usual list of monuments and such, you can find all about them in any travel guide or IG/tik tok account, but don't miss the visit to Colosseum and the forum (especially the forum),book tickets in advance it'll save you a lot of time at the ticket office under the sun, do the same if you thought about visiting the Vatican museums.
A spot that's not usually under the radars is Terrazza Caffarelli (https://www.terrazzacaffarelli.it/) on top of Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill), you'll find a nice rooftop bar there with a beautiful view.
Edit: I totally forgot about the Museum and Crypt of Capuchins in Via Veneto, there's a San Francesco painting by Caravaggio and, if you are not disturbed by that stuff, a crypt entirely decorated with monks' bones and skulls. There are literally hundreds of them and thousands bones.
It's pretty unusual, but kinda great if you ask me.
I'm biased because I live there, but if you wanna eat near the Colosseum my advice is to try Taverna Romana for roman recipes and Tettarello for pizza. Those are two of my favorite places to eat in Rome in general.
I don't know how long are you staying but if you get the chance go to the beach one day. The south is the best, especially Sabaudia that is just below Odyssey's famous Mount Circeo, but you gonna need a car to go there.
* Put the Dock left or right, vertical space is precious (trust me, do it for a week and then decide)
* Setup Hot-Corners (Settings -> Mission Control -> Hot Corners)
- Upper-Right Corner as Mission Control (Must be upper right so spaces are immediately shown)
- Lower-Left Corner as Application Windows
- just fling your mouse curser into the corner (use std. gestures on the trackpad)
This makes window management a lot better.
* Maximise Windows by double clicking the Window title bar.
* Disable auto-{correction, capitalize, etc}, smart-quotes under Keyboard settings (if you want)
* Learn about the screenshot shortcuts CMD+shift+{3,4}, 3: full screen, 4: select area or switch to window select with hitting space bar once.
* Learn about CMD+space for launching apps
* Set Key-Repeat to fast and shorten the delay
* Disable spotlight for everything except what you want to use it for.
* Enable File-Vault
* Disable "Wake for Network Access" under Energy
* Enable the ssh server under Sharing "Remote Login" (If you want)
* Disable the visual/audible bell in the Terminal profile.
* Install MacPorts/Homebew
And one thing to internalize is that Apple is a little authoritarian about some UX aspects.
For example the snapping and window thing... Apple has a thing with continuos freedom opposed to the discretisation one is used to. I've come around to that view as well actually, free your mind, nature is not a stepped slider.
Cool Utilities:
MenuMeters with a CPU usage graph. this allows you to see if something is killing your battery.
MonitorControl (on github) to set brightness of external monitors.
LittleSnitch ($$) for fellow paranoid control freaks
IINA (github) best video player
UTM for VMs (free on github) paid options are good too
Use gqrx to listen to the radio, public services / air traffic (if legal where you are. Great fun at airshows), ham radio operators etc https://gqrx.dk/download - requires minimal knowledge to get started (select device, put in frequency, mode (AM or FM) and that's it. Just play). Great time:benefit ratio so far.
Then use gnuradio to build your own receiver from predefined blocks.
Start with above cheap receive only SDR, but when you want to transmit, buy a HackRF. You do need a ham radio license to transmit. It's not hard (not even highschool level math). Even if you don't do the license, have a look at the materials linked at https://blog.hamstudy.org/links/ , specifically the linked book (free PDF or paid printed). The fundamentals are excellent and it picks you up where most people are (high school math skills, no idea about RF). If you speak German, the best resource is https://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/ajw/darc-online-lehrga... (also available as printed book)
At that point you should have a better idea where to go, and even enough background to read "real" books like http://www.dspguide.com/ (the math is harder of course). DSP is what SDR is all about in the end. But also other radio related books, like the ARRL antenna book.
(There are alternatives to everything of course, but with above recommendations you will not go wrong.)
The historical area in the city center is much bigger than people think, it could take 3/4 days just walking around to see everything, without stopping for a visit, so take that into account.
Also, it's pretty hot right now (around 35-37 degrees Celsius), mind that too.
I won't give you the usual list of monuments and such, you can find all about them in any travel guide or IG/tik tok account, but don't miss the visit to Colosseum and the forum (especially the forum),book tickets in advance it'll save you a lot of time at the ticket office under the sun, do the same if you thought about visiting the Vatican museums.
A spot that's not usually under the radars is Terrazza Caffarelli (https://www.terrazzacaffarelli.it/) on top of Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill), you'll find a nice rooftop bar there with a beautiful view.
Edit: I totally forgot about the Museum and Crypt of Capuchins in Via Veneto, there's a San Francesco painting by Caravaggio and, if you are not disturbed by that stuff, a crypt entirely decorated with monks' bones and skulls. There are literally hundreds of them and thousands bones. It's pretty unusual, but kinda great if you ask me.
I'm biased because I live there, but if you wanna eat near the Colosseum my advice is to try Taverna Romana for roman recipes and Tettarello for pizza. Those are two of my favorite places to eat in Rome in general.
I don't know how long are you staying but if you get the chance go to the beach one day. The south is the best, especially Sabaudia that is just below Odyssey's famous Mount Circeo, but you gonna need a car to go there.
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Anyway, enjoy the visit!