I went in 1985 and was mugged by one of the pickpocket gangs. I will never return.
“I went in 1985 and was mugged by one of the pickpocket gangs. I will never return.”
I, and various others in my tour group (college courses on Italian history, followed by trip), were all ripped off by wandering gypsy thieves, and that was 30 years ago. Rome is the perfect city for a neutron bomb, one that gets rid of its inhabitants while leaving all the buildings and monuments intact.