Name: Rome on a Budget | 24 Perfect Hours in Italy (First Time Visitor Guide)
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Now I don't speak Italian, non parlo molto italiano.

The second conditional

I don't know if that was correct, but what I was trying to say was good morning, world.

How are you doing? Right now I am in Rome, Italy.

I'm here with the lovely Keri Rad, my beautiful girlfriend.

Marco and I just wrapped our shoot up in the Shetland Islands.

He's headed over to the Basque Country to go on a foodie adventure, and I am here in Italy with Keri.

She's been here trying to figure out her Italian citizenship for the last couple of weeks, traveling around with her mom.

So good. It was so neat to come back here and see family.

My family lives in Nola, which is southern Italy, and it was so cool to just reconnect with everybody.

I don't know. Traveling with your mom in your 30s is fun, and we had a really good time.

We don't have a lot of time here in Rome.

Unfortunately, we only have today because tomorrow we're going to be renting a car, and we're going to be road tripping up through Tuscany, trying to hit all of the hot springs.

Then we're going to head up to Venice and try to catch the tail end of Carnival.

It's going to be fun. It's going to be really mellow.

We're going to keep these vlogs pretty straightforward, but we have some exploring to do.

It's one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world, but it was built by the emperors in the Flavian Dynasty.

In the first century A.D., the Colosseum was erected.

It's been the blueprint for sports stadiums ever since.

It was used for lots of stuff, but probably most famously for gladiatorial battles.

Lots of time against animals, but sometimes on special occasions, people will first people.

If you have seen the movie Gladiator, you kind of understand what it's all about.

There's a saying, bread and circus is what keeps the people happy.

You keep them entertained, and blood sport back then was the best way to do that.

We're running with the wolves, breaking all the rules.

While it might not look like much today, this was the Circo Máximo, the Circus Maximus, the chariot racing arena where Ben-Hur would have been competing.

If you've seen that movie, then you know what I'm talking about.

They believe that this arena could have held around 250,000 people.

And what's even crazier is that it's been around since the 6th or 7th century B.C.

It was believed to have been built by the fifth king of Rome.

There were supposedly seven kings of Rome.

Before Rome became a republic, it was a monarchy, and after it was a republic, it was an empire.

But there's just way too much history to take in here.

Rome is basically a giant open-air museum.

Maybe 2,000 years ago, 250,000 people were sitting here snacking on farro and watching the chariot races, just like a day at the Del Mar Fair.

Constantine made the Roman Empire Christian, and that is kind of like what he went into the history books for.

He's the first Christian emperor of Rome.

And when Rome became Christianized, everything changed.

Right now, this whole area that we're in is kind of the heart of ancient Rome.

The Forum was where, when new laws were made, somebody would go up to the Rostra and announce it to the public.

Just walking around here, even though it's super crowded, even though there's tons of tourists, it really does kind of take you back to letting you imagine what it would have been like.

It's so crazy to look at the Colosseum and imagine what it was like.

I don't know if I would want to be sitting there watching what happened.

Something that's very easy to overlook but is super important.

There's free public fountains all over the city.

One of the most lasting elements of Roman culture are the aqueducts.

And the aqueducts are almost everywhere in the Roman world.

There's still ruins of these amazing aqueducts, some of which that span hundreds of miles.

They were built at a slope ever so slightly that the water would flow naturally from very far away into the city, feed the baths that the

Roman elite would wash in, and the fountains that all of the regular people would drink from.

They still have a lot of those fountains flowing, and the water tastes nice.

Found a chill little plaza, nice and quiet, nobody here.

There's a dude selling paninis and beers, so we got a panini and a panini.

It's supposed to rain in about an hour, so we're going to try to squeeze in as much as we can until then.

So it's like three in the afternoon, which is very late to be eating lunch in Italy.

Most of the restaurants closed, but we found this cute little spot called Divino Stilia Food and Wine.

It's totally packed right now, so we're eating at the bar, but we've ordered a beef ragu pasta, caprese salad, two glasses of vino.

Well, that place was delicioso, magnifico, super, super good.

We're going to do as the Italians do and head back to the Airbnb right here and have a little snoozy.

This could be the world's smallest elevator.

I guess I'll just close it with my backpack.

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