1. Night walk through Rome hitting all of the major sites (they look completely different at night - you can find the walk in Rick Steve's book), including having a glass of wine with my husband on our wedding anniversary at the Bar Pantheon while we sat and admired the Pantheon at night without another sole around.
2. St. Peter's.
3. Pizza and wine of course!

Pizza
Trevi Fountain
Everything else

The feel of history.

Wandering in a neighborhood and suddenly coming upon something wonderful.

people watching

all the food

crawling on my knee's up the stair's jesus desending down from after his sentence. It was the most moving experience of my life.

And there's more than 3 things, but that's all you asked for.

The amazing focaccia in Campo dei Fiori, carrying it out into the street wrapped in white paper on a crisp fall evening, feeling it hot in my hands and having to eat it quick before the olive oil seeps through the paper, licking the salt off your lips, it's foodie heaven. The smell of that place alone makes me swoon....
http://www.fornocampodefiori.com/main.php

The Borghese Gallery and the beautiful park surrounding it

The unending list of magnificent churches with their mosaics and works of art

The pure energy and excitement that comes from the city itself...it's intoxicating

I'm having a difficult time paring it down from "Your Favorite 300 Things About Rome", but I'll settle on these:

1) The view from the top of Castel Sant'Angelo at dusk.

2) The interior of St. Peter's Basilica.

3) Having a cappucino in the morning and listening to people on their way to work, and hearing in the background the bells of the Basilica chiming the morning "angelus".

BC

Must save this site for my first trip to Rome in June!

:d

A picnic somewhere in the back gardens of the forum romanum.
An early morning walk where a fruit an vegetable market is setting up.
A game of soccer with some other people in the park of the villa borghese.

San Clemente church

Every Caravaggio(I think we missed just one)

Standing in the Colosseum & hearing the roar of the crowd(in my mind)

San Crispino grapefruit Gelato
Pizza
Cappuccino
Old stuff

Rome's beautiful art.

Great table wine.

Terrific pasta.

I'm heading to Rome for the first time this September. Thank you so much for sharing all of this. I can't wait to find my 3 favorite things about Rome, but I can tell you right now gelato will most likely make the list!

1) Pantheon
2) The market in Testaccio
3) Piazza Venezia - have drink at an outdoor table at one of the cafes overlooking the intersection - it is chaotic, noisy, with no traffic lights. but somehow it all works, the perfect metaphor for Rome.

Giovanni, Paulo and Lucianno..LOL

bookmarking

1. The Pantheon

2. Bernini's "The Rape of Proserpine" at the Borghese Gallery.

3. The breeze on a hot day...a Roman breeze just feels different. I can't explain it.

1 The History

2. Trevi Fountain

3. Food

1 The History

2. Trevi Fountain

3. Food

Grinisa,

My favorite activity in Rome is waking up early and climbing up and down the Spanish steps.