Rome in a Jubilee year?

Be advised that April 20 is Easter Sunday, so you would be arriving in Rome on Holy Saturday. Probably not advisable unless you want your first impression of the Eternal City to be one of chaos, with a chaser of Catholic guilt!

That being said, Rome is my favorite city on the planet, and should not be missed, even under the Jubilee year added amount of tourists. Maybe start someplace else--like Florence or the Amalfi Coast, and finish in Rome. Different set of logistical challenges for each destination. Do plenty of research, including using the search function in this forum--you'll get the inside scoop on what you're in for.

We will be in Rome April 6-10, and made AirBnB lodging & day tour plans months ago.

Enjoy your planning!

We've been planning our Jubilee visit to Rome, and the ticketing at major sights is a nightmare. We've found that the tickets often sell out online within hours after they are made available. Be sure that you start planning far in advance.

If you don't have lodging booked, you are really late to do so. The week after Easter is always very crowded in Italy. Perhaps availability will determine your itinerary. There is no shoulder season on the Amalfi Coast anymore, so expect heavy crowding there, also.
What are your priorities and interests?
Wishing you a great trip! Safe travels.

As noted Rome, while wonderful, will be extremely crowded since you've picked the confluence of Jubilee and Easter to arrive. If you don't already have accommodations booked for Rome and the AC, you may find slim pickings. And with the holidays, Italy as a whole would be off my list of places to visit. But that's just me. IF you can book hotels, I'd head straight to the AC on arrival. Spend 4 nights. Then since I assume you will fly home from Rome and need to be there the night before you leave anyway,go back to Rome for the rest of your time. Hopefully you'll be able to nail advance attraction tickets to the Colosseum. Good luck.

fwiw, I just came back from Rome. Delightfully uncrowded and comfortably cool in early Feb. The Jubilee preparations meant that the churches are spiffed up and open very late. I got to see six gorgeous ones in one day, including breezing through a Holy Door. I did book guided tours ahead, and everything was smooth and easy. The airport and Roma Termini station were both incredibly efficient.

“fwiw, I just came back from Rome. Delightfully uncrowded and comfortably cool in early Feb. The Jubilee preparations meant that the churches are spiffed up and open very late. I got to see six gorgeous ones in one day, including breezing through a Holy Door. I did book guided tours ahead, and everything was smooth and easy. The airport and Roma Termini station were both incredibly efficient.”

There’s more to the jubilee preparations than just churches spiffing themselves up. There’s massive amounts of construction and reconstruction of places, roads etc and just because it was fairly empty means nothing. It’s February and more than 50,000,000 tourists and pilgrims are expected to visit Rome this. Just Rome 50,000,000 which is nothing to speak of the other cities. Don’t give our fellow travelers false hope for no crowds.

Headed there in mid-March and from what I can tell, it seems to be normal Rome during that time based on my prior trael experiences. There will be a ton of people visiting for the the jube. That will clog things up in general. A lot of these people are not going to be on the subway or buses and will not be seeing the sites that my family is going to see. For example, I doubt many (if any) are going to see Palazzo Barberini. I think you go knowing it wil be atypical but if you have the opportunity to go and it is your only chance, you go. Always take the trip you want to take when you can, not when it is optimal.