Visiting the Eternal City is like being in a vast 3000-year old museum. Its best best-preserved building is the Pantheon but a visit to the The Colosseum is a must. Even in its ruined state, it’s easy to imagine the riotously hardcore events staged there 2000 years ago when a huge retractable canopy made from ship sails served as a roof.

Gaze open-mouthed at Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, a vast fresco in the Sistine Chapel, where the Vatican’s other treasures – ancient maps, alabaster statues, paintings, tapestries, and marbled floors – pale in comparison.

About a 10-minute walk from the Sistine Chapel, is St Peter’s Basilica, the largest church ever built. If all the history gets a bit much, find serenity at Villa Borghese, the city's central park and throw three coins backwards into the Trevi fountain en route to make sure you return. Fiumicino is Italy’s first airport, 25km southwest of Rome and linked by train and road. 

Rome’s ports are Darsena Netter , Nautilus Marina, Porto Romano, Porto Netter and Porto Turistico di Roma