Loved the Amalfi Coast.
But outside of the Coliseum and that area, Rome is a dump.
Plus the gypsies in Rome will rob you blind in broad daylight. They use children to literally assault tourists.
I once ran into what must have been a mother/daughter pair along a major thoroughfare with streets crowded with Romans and tourists. The daughter, 14 years old or so, grabbed my right arm with an iron grip with both hands and wouldn’t let get while the Mother went through my pockets.
I couldn’t shake the grip of the girl and began turning turning in a circle to literally throw her into the street and had the daughter flying off the ground trying to shake her grip.
The mother got a few things out of my pockets but was unable to fish out the most valuable things. Plus my wallet and passport were safe in a body pouch under my shirt, belt and and pants. Others walking the crowded street ignored all this except for someone driving by who stopped his car, got out in the traffic (no room to park) and helped me release the iron grip of the daughter. At which point the girl and woman fled.
I was hesitant to really knock out the woman and girl — which I would have to do with my left hand. But I assumed I would have been the one arrested. I went to the police afterward and they shrugged their shoulders.
Smaller gypsy children also descend like a pack of wolves on groups of tourists and pick their pockets and then flee en masse. Because they are children, the Roman police and politicians act helpless to do anything about it.
Also beware young Roman men coming up to you at the airport and offering you a ride. They generally are going to charge you 10 or 20 times the going rate when you reach your destination.