My husband and I are traveling to Rome the beginning of October and will have 8 full days (not including the days we travel in/out of Rome). We are trying to determine another city to pair with Rome for our trip. I have been to Rome, Venice, Florence, Cinque Terre, Amalfi Coast (Positano, Amalfi & Capri), but my husband has never been to Italy. We are going to see the typical sites in Rome, but I wanted to explore somewhere new. I was thinking about Lecce, but I'm not sure if that's trying to squeeze too much in considering our time frame and it looks like Lecce is about 5.5 - 6 hours from Rome. Do you think that will be too much or do you have any other suggestions on another town to go to that is a little closer to Rome?
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Portland, Oregon, United States
907 posts
High speed trains to Milan or Venice or Bologna/Parma. There is always Torino or Genova too. You can do a lot with a day trip, perhaps Orvieto or even Siena. Maybe an overnight if you can.
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🏝️ Hobe Sound, FL⛱️
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You’ve got many options. Of course you could do day trips from Rome to Orvieto, Tivoli, Ostia. My personal choice would be a few days in Naples with a visit to Herculaneum or Pompeii.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
1245 posts
Bologna is a nice place, especially if you love food! I would spend a couple nights, and go to Parma also. About 2 hrs via fast train.
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Chicago
2124 posts
Day trip to Orvieto, day trip to Naples. Both under 90 minutes via Freccia train. Enjoy the heck out of Rome with the rest of the time.
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OP
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Great - thank you everyone. These are all great suggestions. I'm starting to think maybe we'll do a couple nights in Naples with a day trip to Ischia one day and Herculaneum another day and then the rest of the time in Rome and doing some day trips to other towns from there. I have already been to Pompei. Does anyone think Herculaneum would be worth going to if I've already been to Pompei?