Rome closed Sunday and Monday.

Speaking as someone whose favorite activity when visiting a great city is simply to wander around outside, appreciating the city itself, I'd be inclined to do that. Then again, if I were that close to Orvieto, I think I'd want to go wander around there.

I've never found Rome to be closed on either Sunday or Monday.

Different things are open different days.

You just have to adjust your schedule to do things on the days that they are open.

The Vatican Museum is the only one closed on Sundays. The rest of "tourists' Rome" is open for business.

Not sure where you heard that Rome is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Only the Vatican museums are closed on Sundays and for Mondays it's just state run museums. There are tons of other sites open both of these days.

*** We are seeing all the important sights on Thursay, Friday and Saturday.**

Rome has hundreds of important sites. Seeing them all in three days is impossible. If you have a good guide book you'll be able to find lots of interesting sites which you will want to visit instead of venturing outside of the city. Some that come to mind are the Baths of Caracalla, the Knights of Malta Keyhole, the Circus Maximus, the Mouth of Truth, the Ara Pacis, the Palazzo Valentini, the Cinecitta Studios, aquaduct park, Ostia Antica....... the list goes on and on.

donna

As the others above have said, there are tons of things open on Sunday and Monday. You would have to work around Sunday mass schedules but otherwise most of the churches are open on both days as are the Capitoline museums, Trajan's Market - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Ara Pacis, all of the piazzas and parks. If it's a nice day, a walk on Via Appia Antica is also highly recommended.

http://www.parcoappiaantica.it/en/

Some of the ruins and churches along the way will be closed on Sunday and others on Monday but they're not ALL closed on either day.

http://www.parcoappiaantica.it/en/testi.asp?l1=1&l2=6&l3=0&l4=0

Is there something about the earlier answers you didn't like?