Rome - Nightlife

Join the modern crowd in the Centro Storico or cavort along Testaccio's hedonism strip.

All paths lead to Testaccio, where young urbanites look for fun. The sheer variety of ever-changing bars and clubs housed in ex-warehouses means there is always a new venue to discover.

In the warren of streets behind Piazza Navona the beautiful people dance and play through the night. Dress to impress and swig cocktails and Prosecco under the night sky with an international crowd before cavorting in all the right clubs till dawn.

Come nightfall, the cobbled streets of Trastevere bristle with the traffic of revellers enjoying a passeggiata (evening stroll) and ice cream, dining at a rustic pizzeria, or chatting over a glass of wine and waxing lyrical till late into the night.

In the bygone days of dolce vita glamour, Via Veneto was the epicentre of Roman nightlife. The beat has moved on, but there are still a few classic nightclubs that relive the heyday for a mature and well-heeled champagne-quaffing crowd.

Don't even think about hitting the clubs before midnight, but rest assured you can dance till dawn. Hungry clubbers head to cornettifici (bakeries) for freshly baked croissants before going to bed. Most wine bars in the centre stay open till around 2am, but once summer arrives, the big clubs transfer to the beaches of Ostia and Fregene.

Meander past ruins in the historic centre at night listening to Puccini's Nessun Dorma, eat pizza under the stars to Dean Martin's That's Amoreand enjoy the city view from Gianicolo Hill to Rome wasn't Built in a Day by Morcheeba.