Top 5 Must-See Activities in Rome

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Best Fun & Unusual Things to Do in Rome

Looking for unusual and fun-filled activities to do in Rome? Then you’ve gotten to the right place. Rome is a city filled with historical monuments and buildings to visit and see. Even though people think Rome is a romantic place to visit, but we are here to give you the hidden unusual activities you can do in Rome, some place are not hidden to visitors and the world at large but there are some hidden fun-filled activities to do in these places.

Join us as we take you down our list of 15 Unusual and Fun-Filled Activities to do in Rome.

Fun Things To Do In Rome

Unusual Things to Do in Rome

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See a ghost at Ponte Sisto

First on our list is wild and fun-filled as you get to see ghosts! Oops!! Going with a babe holding your hands in fear of getting scared when a ghost appear is romantic enough to make you love the Eternal City as it is called. One of the most-to-go place to see a ghost is the Ponte Sisto. The Ponte Sisto is Rome’s most romantic bridge but if you visit at sunrise local legends says you’ll see a ghost carriage charging towards you – the...

Pasta Making with Wine Tasting and Dinner in Frascati

1. Pasta Making with Wine Tasting and Dinner in Frascati

clock Duration: 2 hours 30
  • Are you a lover of the special Italian special pasta? This tour doesn't only introduce you to the unique Italian pasta, there's also a great walking tour to take yours around Frascati
  • After your walk around the small town, its time for you to enjoy some special wines and take part in an Italian cooking class. The cooking class is a...
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Visit the Cat Café (Romeow)

One of the Interesting and Fun-filled place you must visit as a cat-lover is the Romeow. Romeow is a cat café which not only has cats to cuddle but also amazing food. The concept adopted from Japan and started by Valentina and Maurizio: a couple with similar loves in life (that is for cat). You eat and dine in the company of the six adorable cats wandering freely on-site using napping on armrests or purring past your legs (isn’t that...

Rome: Crypts and Roman Catacombs Guided Tour with Coach Transfers

2. Rome: Crypts and Roman Catacombs Guided Tour with Coach Transfers

clock Duration: 3 hours 30
  • This is a unique city tour of Rome which dives into the history of the city and takes visitor away from the overcrowded city sights.
  • An opportunity to learn and see a lot of the Italian Capital in a short time.
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Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary

Not yet over on our list for Cat-Lovers, visit the Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary which serves as a home for over 27,000 colonies of cats (OMG!). After the evacuation of the temple ruins in 1929, feral cats moved into the area. An Actor named Antonio Crast found the old warehouse where archeologists in the 20s kept their tools, it was there he began feeding the cats. And since then, the shelter has grown with volunteers coming every day of the...

Rome: VIP Vatican Breakfast with Guided Tour & Sistine Chapel

3. Rome: VIP Vatican Breakfast with Guided Tour & Sistine Chapel

clock Duration: 3 hours
  • An exclusive early morning tour of the Vatican City's best attractions.
  • An opportunity to explore the Vatican City without crowds.
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A Full day Vespa Ride

One of the fun-filled things we learnt during our nursery school days is the diagram of a Vespa and the thoughts of seeing and driving it fills our mind. How about you fulfilling your dream of riding a Vespa along Rome Streets? Even if you are not experienced driving the amazing old ride, then you will be provided with a driver. You just sit down at the back with your helmet on your head and enjoy the full-day fun of roaming about the street...

Try yourself in the Italian kitchen! Very Small group Cooking Class

4. Try yourself in the Italian kitchen! Very Small group Cooking Class

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  • Take a piece of Italy home with you!

    On these very small group cooking classes, you will learn how to make two types of pasta from scratch, an appetizer, and tiramisu. At this hands-on pasta class, the professional chef will also reveal the well-kept secrets of Italian cuisine, presenting the tips for delicious Roman and Italian sauces....
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Watch an AS Roma Match

Romans catch fun when they watch their home based team play in international matches. Join them to shout and cheer as they watch their players roll the ball round the pitch. Here we have two options for you, it is either you go to the AS Roma Stadium (Stadio Olimpico, the main and largest sport facility in Rome, Italy) to watch live or you join the locals in a bar with a drink in hand to cheer.

Going to the AS Roma Stadium is the most...

Pizza Class and 3 Wine Tasting + Fried Pizza

5. Pizza Class and 3 Wine Tasting + Fried Pizza

clock Duration: 2 hours
  • Take your tastebuds on a tour of Rome's pizza and wines and learn how to make your own authentic Italian pizza from scratch. First enjoy a small walk through the lively Trionfale Food Market, right behind the Vatican. During your market visit taste the different nuances of pizza, from the ancient fried pizza to thin-crust Roman style. Pair it all...
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View Rome on Moute Mario

Visiting a city without viewing the city as a whole on one of the city’s viewpoint means your journey there is a scam. Monte Mario is the highest hill in Rome, Italy and it provides a panoramic view of the city at large.

Apart from being a beautiful view point, it also contain a natural reserve which introduces a charming frame of green, made of history and culture from centuries to centuries. The reserve with 238 hectares provides a...

Gelato & Fettuccine making class in Rome

6. Gelato & Fettuccine making class in Rome

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  • As important as eating pasta and sipping a good glass of wine, gelato is a symbol of Italian culture…no experience is complete without trying all three! But what makes gelato so sensational? Fresh and high-quality ingredients and some little tricks that only the Insideat chef can reveal! You'll learn how to make 2 different flavors of gelato...
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Bargain at Porta Portese

One of the unusual things to do in Rome is to visit the largest second-hand market in Rome. The Porta Portese provides a lot of second-hand clothes, souvenirs and so on just on every Sunday. Porta Portese is an ancient city gate located at the end of Via Portuense, it is advisable to go early because it is always super crowded on a sunny day.

It is always good to bargain with locals and foreign people in a strange land, buy their...

Last Lap! 1h Pizza Class in Rome

7. Last Lap! 1h Pizza Class in Rome

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  • Learn all the secrets of preparing Italian pizza in one hour!
    Just arrived? Is your last lap? Take advantage of our luggage storage, and don’t lose a minute of fun!

    In one hour you can learn all the secrets to make a perfect dough and to roll out the pizza as a real Italian chefs do.

    Season your pizza with the best Roman...
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Visiting a Crypt of Skulls

This might be creepy and not fun but it is an unusual activity to do in Rome. Rome is filled with historical places plus stories and visiting the crypt of skulls in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini Church is one of the historical places you must visit in Rome. There are more than 3,700 capuchin friars’ bodies remaining, it is a total different experience as you go from one room to another with skulls and bone chandeliers...

Rome Food Walking Tour

8. Rome Food Walking Tour

clock Duration: 3 hours
  • Savor a 3-hour walking tour in the first district of Rome. Enjoy and learn about the three different styles of pizzas. Taste an old-style Italian soda. Enjoy the history and food of Rome exploring on foot. Visit the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where Pope Francis gave his first...
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Summer Refresh in a water park

One of the fun-filled things to do in Rome is a cool refresh at a water park. Rome in summer can be supper hot, so visiting Rome during summer periods might not be friendly because heat would just be too much.

But then you can spice it up with a constant summer refresh in any of the water parks around you (and you can check the list down below). Don’t go alone ooo, go with someone like your friends, lover, relatives because...

Rome: Pizza Making Home cooking class with a local

9. Rome: Pizza Making Home cooking class with a local

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  • Learn the art of making Italian pizza at a 2-hour cooking class in Rome. Get tips about authentic dough as you prepare your own pizza, and enjoy a special lunch or dinner with your friends and family.
    Enjoy the lunch with your friends and family and live an authentic experience in...
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Visit Rome’s Villa Borghese

Spend a day at the Rome’s Villa Borghese, it is always fun-filled to visit this landscape garden that contains a vast number of buildings, museums and attractions. It is the third largest public park in Rome after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. Even though it is ranked third, there are features and historical places embedded in it.

Some things to do in this Park are listed below so you can have a planned...

Exclusive Pizza Making Experience in Rome

10. Exclusive Pizza Making Experience in Rome

clock Duration: 2 hours 18
  • Live an authentic culinary experience in Rome. Learn to cook traditional homemade pizza with an Italian family and learn about traditional local cuisine as you prepare your own pizza. Taste different types of delicious pizza. Bring back home your own pizza...
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The Orange Garden on Aventine Hill

This also made our list of the Fun-Filled activities to do in Rome. The Orange Garden of about 7800 square meters is located on the Aventine hill. The garden was designed in 1932 by Raffaele De Vico and the architectural design was never changed up to today.

Apart from the beautiful Orange garden, the hill also give an amazing view of the city as you stand among the orange trees. Moreover, it is a great place to have a picnic among the...

Colosseum Gladiator's Arena Small Group Tour

11. Colosseum Gladiator's Arena Small Group Tour

clock Duration: 1 hour 35
  • Walk with us on the path of Rome's famed gladiators and have your professional guide recreate their stories and the historic events that took place within the walls of the Colosseum upon the sand covered arena floor. On your tour you will beat the crowd skipping the long ticket lines to venture deep inside the walls of the Colosseum discovering...
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Visit the 200 year old Pyramid

Many people don’t know there is an Egyptian style pyramid, the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome. In the heart of Rome lies this 200 years old Pyramid which was built as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation. It is an ancient pyramid near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery and it is the first and only of its kind in Rome.

So you have read and learnt about this stand-out monument in Rome, you...

Vegan Food Tour Experience in Rome

12. Vegan Food Tour Experience in Rome

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  • Are you looking for a unique experience? Discover Rome's first and only vegan food tour. The 3 hour walking tour takes you through the iconic streets of Monti (the Colosseum's neighborhood) while stopping for a bite to eat in 4 of the area's best plant-based restaurants. Vegan or non-vegan, we guarantee this experience will both surprise and...
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An Evening visit to the House of Owls

This Place is full of fun-filled sightseeing activities. Just get yourself mesmerized with the beautiful and Unusual Architecture buildings at the House of Owls. Within the grounds of one of Rome’s most beautiful neo-classical masterpiece, the Villa Torlonia (the residence of Prince Giovanni Torlonia) lies a magnificent piece of surreal architecture that seems in parts of the place, but entirely perfect against the green and wooded parkland...

A Real Italian Pizza-Making Class

13. A Real Italian Pizza-Making Class

clock Duration: 3 hours
  • Prepare and indulge in the most iconic Italian food with our best teachers. Discover the secrets of the perfect Roman Pizza!

    Our class at the popular That’s Amore restaurant, a few steps from the Trevi Fountain, is a 90-minutes pizza making lesson perfect for all ages.

    One of our “Fabiolous” chefs will guide you through the...
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An Aperitivo with Locals

Mr. and Mrs. Food Lovers, we got you an amazing and fun-filled activity in Rome. An Aperitivo in Rome consists a free dish (or even buffet) with a drink during the evening. It is always in the evening around 18:00, behave like the locals and join them in an Aperitivo activity.

Aperitivo is often called “American Happy Hour” in America. The Latin word ‘aperitivi’ means ‘opener’, signifying that it was to open a meal. This...

Local Food and Wine Walking Tour around Rome

14. Local Food and Wine Walking Tour around Rome

clock Duration: 4 hours
  • This food and walking tour is the perfect introduction to Roman cuisine.

    Start your meal like only a true Italian would – with a classic aperitivo of meat, cheese, and wine. Our guide will take you to the most authentically Roman spots, known exclusively by locals.

    Taste our favorite delicacies from The Eternal City while we...
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Experience the beef words at La Parolaccia

And lastly, do you know how to throw beef words or you want to learn or you know the reply to bad words or you want to learn how to ignore bad words? Then La Parolaccia is the answer, it is a restaurant in Rome where waiters are trained to bring you the dishes loaded of good food and bad words. Don’t take it personally! It is just a show where they use abusive language. And the best part, you can also use as many as you want. The restaurant...

Rainbow Tour: the Secret Gay History of Rome

15. Rainbow Tour: the Secret Gay History of Rome

clock Duration: 3 hours
  • Learn about Ancient and modern Roman history as only a gay-friendly guide can tell it!

    Your tour begins at the spot where Julius Caesar was betrayed and killed. Then, walk along the imperial Forum - the political and social heart of the Roman Empire. Learn about Julius Caesar and how homosexuality was viewed socially in Ancient...
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Conclusion

We know you enjoyed going through our list of the Fun-filled and unusual activities to do in Rome. Even though Rome is that much fun to be because it is full of historical buildings and ancient stones. There is nowhere in Rome you won’t find one historical fact or the other. So it is a city full of fun and it’s obvious you will get to see historical monuments and building plus filling your brain with facts that you have learnt. Have fun as you make use of our list!!!!!! La Paris, La Goal

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