Rome outskirts

- West part, East part, EUR, views towards the outskirts

As soon as you leave the historical city center, Centro Storico, you will notice that the majority of Rome is not that old looking after all. It is filled with modern apartment buildings, supermarkets, gas stations, pizzerias, hotels, motels, suburban parks and malls. Highways and large roads are passing through it. The only times we visited the outskirts of Rome was when taking the train from Fiumicino Airport to Termini Station, and when leaving Rome with the airport bus, through westbound roads from Piazza Cavour. EUR (Esposizione Universale Roma) in the southern outskirts is one of the most modern district of Rome. It was planned as an exhibition area by Mussolini, but fell into disrepair after the war and was later developed as a business district. Here you find the only skyscrapers of Rome, Torre Eurosky (155m) and Torre Europarco (120m). Both were built as late as in 2012. Here you also find the fascist building Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, "Square Colosseum", the modern dome church called Basilica dei Santi Pietro e Paolo all' EUR and Museum of Roman Civilization. We didn't visit it, but have a lot of photos taken from afar.

Recommended daytrips in the metro area are the seaside town Lido di Ostia (85 000 inh.) with it's beaches near the airport to the West of Rome, and Tivoli (53 000 inh.), 30km NE of Rome, in the mountains with ancient buildings and falls. However we had 6 days, enough for us to see Rome with no daytrips.

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