From handmade pasta-making to world-class shopping—the Eternal City is so much more than ancient ruins, best experienced ...

Most of them are faithful but sketchy copies of drawings by the Slovene Franz Caucig, who lived in Rome from 1780 to 1787. They were probably made for an English Grand Tourist and sold as souvenirs.

It is the best-preserved ancient building ... one of Rome's truly great new-generation ice-cream shops. When the Romans vanquished the cultivated Etruscans of central Italy, they worked hard ...