Everybody loves Rome - especially its 'postcard' version, with the Coliseum, The Sistine Chapel, Piazza di Spagna and the Trevi Fountain.
Yet there are so many amazing places in town whose existence most people - even locals - barely ignore: yes, the ancient Caput Mundi ('world capital') can still be unusual, even unkown.
And it's by discovering its hidden treasures that you will grow even fonder of it.
Necropolis of Portus, Fiumicino
When beauty abunds, chances are small, precious parts of it will be forgotten. Which is what happened with this perfectly preserved funerary settlement, including over 200 burial homes built between the 1st and the 4th century. Most tombs were built by the middle class bourgeoisie of the area - merchants, small enterpreneurs and freedman who lived by the ancient sea harbour - and they represent an extraordinary portait of everyday life in Imperial Rome.
MUCRI
Rome's criminology museum, a.k.a. MUCRI, unexpectedly hides in a romatic street called via del Gonfalone. Founded back in 1930 as a memento of the ancient and much dreaded jail built on this site by the Pontifex, it is an informative account of ancient justice and of its most violent sides. Prepare to learn about instruments of torture and death.