How old are you? There's Anzio, which was an important battlefield in WWII. You can do guided van tours.

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Anonymous wrote:DH is thinking Pisa. I am thinking Florence. Any recommendations of a day trip from Rome?

Napes to get to Pompeii. Easy day trip with a guide for Pompeii and Herculaneum, enough time to get pizza in Naples for the train back.

Florence is a little further and frankly is worth more time than a day trip.

Don’t just get pizza. The Naples train station had an awesome bakery/pastry shop that was basically all Italians buying stuff to take home for dinner when we were there. I was a little overwhelmed but everything I got was delicious. It’s the local train from Naples to Pompeii so if you wanted you could get a driver/guide from Naples, who could then probably also swing you by someplace on the coast if you wanted, or Herculaneum if you want more antiquity.

Anonymous wrote:We did Florence. We were going to do Pompeii but were advised that the travel time was a lot for a day. We packed a lot in in Florence & had a good time.

Interesting, but seems inaccurate. If you left Roma Termini at 8 AM tomorrow, it's almost exactly the same amount of time (around 1:55) to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence or the entrance to Pompeii.

We did Florence. We were going to do Pompeii but were advised that the travel time was a lot for a day. We packed a lot in in Florence & had a good time.