DK Travel : Rome : Editor's choice

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Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi

A Baroque gem of a church. Out front is the Torre della Scimmia, a rare remnant of medieval Rome.
Spaghetti alla carbonara

The piping hot pasta is immediately mixed with a raw egg, grated Parmesan and black pepper so that the eggy mixture cooks on to the strands of spaghetti themselves. It is then tossed with pieces of pancetta (bacon). There’s a local legend that the recipe was born out of US army rations after World War II (powdered bacon and eggs mix), but no one seems to have proven or discarded the theory.
SS Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso

Roman Baroque church (1669) by Pietro da Cortona, who designed the tribune, cupola and stuccoes.
Synagogue

This 1904 synagogue has a museum that traces the history of Rome’s Jewish community (see Campo de’ Fiori to the Capitoline).
Tiber Island

It is said that the serpent of medical god Aesculapius jumped ship and swam ashore here in 293 BC. Rome’s maternity hospital is still here.
Torre Ercolana

One of Lazio’s unsung reds, made from Cabernet and Cesanese grapes.
Via dei Coronari

Lined with antiques shops, this street is at its torch-flickering best during the May and October antiques fairs.
Via Giulia

Fashionable street laid out by Bramante in the early 16th century. The ivy-hung viaduct was designed by Michelangelo, but never completed.
Villa Doria Pamphilj

Rome’s largest public park was established in 1644-52 by Camillo Pamphilj. A great place for picnics.
Villa Giulia

Contains Italy’s top Etruscan collection, celebrating the peninsula’s first great civilization (8th to 3rd centuries BC).