Walking food tours in Rome have been the highlight of my trips to the Eternal City. Rome calls me back every year, and I ...

You don't have to walk the whole stretch to get a feel for it – those basalt stones are tough on the feet, after all. I manage 2.5 miles in a day, making slow progress as there's so much to see.

Walking through the streets of Rome, it's obvious that the Eternal City takes its history seriously. Remnants of the past are immaculately preserved wherever you go, including one of the stops in our ...

As I walk through the streets of the Eternal City with my Roman friends, they explain the ritual of this promenade: While elsewhere in Italy it’s called the passeggiata, in Rome it’s a cruder ...

One day in the middle of last month, while walking the streets of central Rome—the Vatican just 30 minutes away by foot, the timeless Tiber just across the section of Lungotevere, ...

Not all cars are off the streets, mind you — I’ve been walking them these past four days, and neighborhood residents, taxis and delivery trucks are still allowed. In the era of the electric ...

A self-described flâneur, or idle stroller, James applied this philosophy to other cities, too, wandering aimlessly through the streets of Rome the day he arrived, letting “accident” be his ...

The walk was followed by the recitation of the Christmas Novena and Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, the vicar of Rome. Credit: Alan Koppschall/CNA.