If you have come to Italy, especially Rome, and want to see it all in just 3 days, you have to workout your schedule in advance as the time is less and there is so much to see and do that you might be hard pressed to hop from one placer to another and may even find the trip tiring and an unpleasant one. This necessitates omitting those sites and activities that lie outside your interest area and including as many as you would love to see. This is really tough on a tourist but also the best for him to enjoy the trip. There are many more things to be kept in mind while in Rome for a short stay of 3 days. Read on for many useful tips to explore the eternal city in a short time.

Rome is full of scenic beauty and places of tourist attractions. Who can resist the temptation to see the Vatican City, a country within a city that has the seat of Pope inside it? Or for that matter the Coliseum that reminds one of the ancient Rome and its cultural past?  As soon as you check in a hotel, ask the room service for a map of the city or go out and buy the map from the nearest newsstand. But why book a hotel? It is far better to book an apartment in Rome just as it is with an apartment in Milan. These apartments are cheaper and provide far more security and privacy that you get in a hotel. In fact, even in distant US, New York apartments are today higher in demand than hotel rooms.

Get Roma Pass

The next step would be to get a Roma Pass for yourself or for the entire family (if you happen to be with wife and kids). The pass is available for Euro 25 per person and allows you to get on any mode of public transport for free and at any time of the day. You can show the pass to the authorities and make use of train, metro, bus, or tram for any destination inside the city.

The 3 days

You can choose to take a guided tour of the city that takes around 4 hours or the full day tour to see all important places of tourist attraction. In the evening you can enjoy the nightlife of this ancient yet vibrant city in a relaxed manner. You can reserve the next day for city’s museums where you get to know and see some rally wonderful artifacts and relics from the past. So you can have a glimpse of all the places of tourist attraction in a short time period of 2 days. You can keep 3^rd day for a bike tour around the city as well as food and wine tour to experience some of the most delicious food items from Italian recipe and the famous Italian wines. The bike tour will allow you to admire the architecture and beauty of the old churches of the city and also to know about the culture and the people from close quarters.

The small town of Requena is situated within short trip from the city of Valencia in Spain and is a wonderful destination for one day trips. The place could be reached with a train, where the journey lasts for 1.30h and the cost of the ticket is below 5 Euros per person. Requena is a lovely old town, but its main attraction is the locally produced wine and especially the red wine Utiel Requena, which is its specialty. The town draws the greatest attention of the tourists during the time of its annual water and wine festival, which happens to be organized for ten days, from the 23rd August until 3rd September. Requena water and wine festival is a kind of a big event and a major festival, during which the locals celebrate the beginning of the grape harvest. It is known with the Noche de Zurra, when people go through the town, asking God to send them a lot of rain for the next grape harvest. These people get actually doused in water by people standing in the balconies above. During the Requena water and wine festival, tourists can taste the local wine from the first pressing and can also take from the offerings of flowers and fresh fruits that are presented.

During the Requena water and wine festival, the local bands play and one can just ask for some wine, since there are trucks offering free red wine. There is one tip though – everyone should bring a cup or a bottle, since they do not provide any of these. When the procession goes around the town and the people are being soaked with water from their neighbors standing on the balconies, if you want to stay dry, better stand under the balconies and just keep on chanting “aqua”, since this is part of the festival as well. Fireworks are also part of the festival and so are the bull ring performances at the small bull ring that the town has. In case you have time and do not need to run back to Valencia so fast, it is a good idea to visit that bull ring as well. The atmosphere there is very joyful, the music is loud and everyone is waiting to see the bulls and their performance. The locals led the bull out and many young men are running around. The bulls are not injured, but some of the people down chasing the bull, usually are. The bulls that are presented are usually ten.

The thing that one will like most here is that actually the entire town takes part in the event, in the special Requena water and wine festival and in the bulls’ presentations and fights. And the other good thing is that everybody enjoys the event which is the aim of the game, after all.