Rome's historical centre is a web of narrow streets and piazzas, buzzing with life and boasting remarkable monuments. Visit the Piazza Navona; the site of a stadium in Roman times it is now teeming with cafés, restaurants and street entertainment.

See the monument dubbed 'the Wedding Cake', an imposing memorial to Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza Venezia where you can view the balcony from where the infamous Mussollini preached to the people during his fascist rule, the Trevi Fountain, an iconic monument famed in La Dolce Vita, the famous Spanish steps and, next door, the house where the British romantic poet Keats spent the last months of his life.