We’ll be arriving at Termini Station in Rome on Sunday September 30th in the early afternoon. Our hotel is close by and thought we’d try to see some of the frescos in the national museum after dropping off our luggage. Read online the government is thinking of discontinuing this program. Any update would be appreciated.
Posted by
Reading, PA, USA
1584 posts
Sept 30th is the last Sunday, not the 1st.
Posted by
Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23238 posts
The free museum day is never a good deal or option for tourists unless you absolutely love rubbing shoulder to shoulder with the locals and standing in long hot lines. Remember the locals love good deals just as much if not more than American tourists.
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WPB, FL & Firenze
3112 posts
My experience is that some of Rome's state-owned museums aren't overcrowded on a free Sunday. I've twice visted the National Museum and it wasn't crowded either time. I visited the Forum and Palantine Hill on a free Sunday afternoon and they were busy but not packed. However, lines to get into the Colosseum were ridiculously long that day. Also remember that many of Rome's popular museums are city, province or church-owned and don't participate in the free Sunday, which is likely to end soon.
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Firenze, Italy
1526 posts
As a guideline, the present Italian government lives on a diet of multiple daily announcements, coming from a couple of competing ministers and usually made on twitter, but the laws that actually get set in writing are very few and far between. You can safely expect that only a small percentage of the announcements will be enforced and not too fast.
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Tresana, Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
23238 posts
Sound like the current situation in the US. Must be catching.
Posted by
Washington DC
27054 posts
I agree with Frank from Delaware: In most major tourist cities, 90% of the visitors focus on 10% or 20% of the indoor sights. The other attractions are extremely unlikely to be crowded even during free-admission periods.