Rome

Someone recently asked me to list the top ten tourist sites in Rome.  "That's easy" I thought, until I tried to do it.  The first eight were easy (in no particular order):

The Colosseum

Sistine Chapel/Vatican Museums

Spanish Steps

Trevi Fountain

Pantheon

St. Peter's/Piazza San Pietro

Roman Forum

Piazza Navona

Campo dei Fiori

So there's nine, without even taking a breath.  It's difficult to pick the tenth site, I've got at least a dozen on the tip of my tongue to choose from.  Let's see, there's ...

• Palatine Hill
• Capitoline Museums/Campidoglio
• Castel Sant'Angelo
• Villa Borghese/Galleria Borghese
• Trastevere
• Santa Maria Maggiore
• Baths of Caracalla
• San Giovanni Laterano
• Appian Way/Catacombs
• Ara Pacis
• Santa Maria Cosmedin/Bocca della Verita (Mouth of Truth)
• San Clemente

... and I'm just getting warmed up.