Date night in Rome

Top spots in Rome

• The Colosseum & Forum

  Culture

  Centro Storico

  Book the underground/arena floor combo — skip the hour-long perimeter queue.

• Trastevere

  Food & Drink

  Trastevere

  Cobbled lanes, ivy-covered trattorias and Sunday lunch that runs until 5pm.

• Villa Borghese

  Outdoors

  Pinciano

  Park above the Spanish Steps — rent rowboats on the lake, see the Bernini collection.

• Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel

  Culture

  Vatican City

  Book the first 7:30am slot or the Friday night opening — the rest is chaos.

• Testaccio Market

  Food & Drink

  Testaccio

  Working-class food market — supplì, trapizzino, fresh pasta.

• Aventine Keyhole

  Outdoors

  Aventine Hill

  Look through the keyhole at Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta — three states framed.

Best date-night spots in Rome

12 curated picks — from candlelit dinners to sunset views.

• La Pergola

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  Restaurant · Monte Mario

  Rome's only three-Michelin-star, panoramic terrace.

• Pierluigi

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  Restaurant · Campo de' Fiori

  Piazza dinner under candlelit lanterns.

• Roscioli

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  Restaurant · Campo de' Fiori

  Salumeria-restaurant with cult carbonara.

• Pincio Terrace sunset

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  View · Villa Borghese

  Free view over Piazza del Popolo to St. Peter's.

• Ponte Sant'Angelo walk

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  Walk · Centro

  Bernini angels + Castel Sant'Angelo + St. Peter's.

• Stravinskij Bar at Hotel de Russie

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  Cocktail bar · Piazza del Popolo

  Secret garden with orange trees.

• Glass Hostaria

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  Restaurant · Trastevere

  Modern Italian Michelin star in Trastevere alley.

• Aroma at Palazzo Manfredi

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  Restaurant · Colosseo

  Rooftop with Colosseum framed in the window.

• Open-air opera at Terme di Caracalla

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  Experience · Aventino

  Summer opera in Roman ruins.

• Salotto 42

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  Cocktail bar · Pantheon

  Living-room bar on Piazza di Pietra.

• Casa Coppelle

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  Restaurant · Pantheon

  Eclectic boudoir rooms, French-Italian fine dining.

• Giardino degli Aranci sunset

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  View · Aventino

  Orange garden with St. Peter's panorama.

Where to eat

• Roscioli

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  Roman · Campo de' Fiori

  Salumeria-and-wine-bar with the city's most argued-over carbonara.

• Pizzarium Bonci

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  Pizza al taglio · Prati

  Gabriele Bonci's slab pizza — point at slices, weighed, eat outside.

• Da Enzo al 29

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  Roman · Trastevere

  Tiny 25-seat trattoria — cacio e pepe and the carciofi alla giudia.

• Salumeria Roscioli — Pasta Tasting

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  Pasta · Campo de' Fiori

  The dedicated pasta tasting room above the salumeria — five iconic plates.

• Giolitti

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  Gelato · Pantheon

  Open since 1900 — order pistachio and stracciatella.