Rome

The signs warn you that it is an offense to put posters on the walls:

Aren’t they beautiful?

A sign of lawyer’s office:

In the designated places posters are put on top of each other:

In the designated spaces posters are put on top of each other

Many streets are so narrow that they leave almost no space for pavements. So people have to walk right on the roads.

Via del Corso:

Toy buses:

This pavement close to Quattro Fontane is about a foot wide:

When pedestrians cross a road, you will see a yellow traffic light instead of green. That is because green is on for about a second, and then yellow is on for about twenty:

Tripods on sale throughout the city:

Vatican television is silent:

Romans use the flat roofs of the building as small gardens:

В церкви Санта-Мария-Маджора установлен прекрасный автомат по сбору денег. Кидаешь монетку — в определённой части церкви загорается подсветка.

In Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore there is a machine where you put money to turn on some lights:

In the Leonardo da Vince museum you can touch things, but should be careful:

Roman metro is quite small. It is hard to build an underground train network in a city full of archeological digs, so the lines mostly pass around the city center. Colosseo station is a rare exception:

It is quite dark and dirty on the stations:

But the trains are probably the best I have ever encountered. They are spacious, light and very quiet:

Platform configurations:

A transfer passage:

Pure Italian wayfinding (sortie means “exit” in French):

The bus 200 connected my hotel with the city center:

There are actually two routes 200 in Rome, and both of them stop here! Luckily, I’ve learned this secret on my first trip when I was lucky enough to get the right one. A girl on board recognized I was a tourist and told me about the oddity. So all future rides started with a conversation with driver in pure Italian:
— Buona sera! Corso Francia?
— Sì!
— Grazie!

Public transport drivers wear a uniform: