Getting around Rome presents significant challenges for disabled visitors due to the city's cobblestone streets, hills, and lack of accessible public transportation options. Rome has uneven cobblestones making manual wheelchairs difficult to navigate, few curb cuts or sidewalks, and many historic buildings without ramps. While some buses are accessible, they run on limited routes and streets are often too narrow for buses. The metro system has very limited accessibility. Taxis and private transportation are often needed to fully access Rome's sites and attractions. Advance planning is important for disabled travelers to determine the most accessible transportation and routes.

1. Getting Around Rome with a Disability
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2. Getting around Rome with a Disability –
• Rome presents numerous challenges for disabled visitors trying to get
around town.
• Cobblestones, hills, and few public transportation options make it one
of the more difficult destinations in Europe for disabled travelers.
• Consequently, disabled visitors greatly benefit by learning how to get
around Rome with a disability before they arrive.
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3. • The city centre in Rome is covered in cobblestones and has few curbs
or sidewalks.
• Many of these cobblestones are uneven and can present challenges
for manual wheelchair users.
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4. • The front wheels on a manual wheelchair can catch on these
cobblestones if the wheelchair user is moving too fast.
• Disabled visitors will need to move slowly if they are getting around
Rome in a wheelchair.
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5. In some areas, the cobblestones are very uneven and even broken.
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6. Paraplegics in manual wheelchairs may want to use a wheelie to go
over some of the rough areas in Rome:
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7. • The pictures below were taken on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II street.
• There are small curbs like the one shown on the left at some of the
streets and driveways.
• The picture on the right is shows where the street runs so close to the
Gesu church that a wheelchair user could not fit on the sidewalk and
would have to travel on the other side of the street.
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8. • The two pictures below were taken further to west near the Trevi
Fountain.
• The one on the left shows a crosswalk with curb cuts which are fairly
common in this area.
• The one on the right shows a wheelchair ramp that can not be used
because a delivery truck is blocking the ramp.
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9. Many of the shops in the city centre have a step to get into them like
the one shown on the left.
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10. • In some places a sidewalk can turn into a flight of stairs such as the
ones shown below.
• The accessible routes we have provide in our Rome Accessibility
Guide avoids all of these steps.
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11. Getting around Rome with a Disability by Bus
• Some of Rome’s busses are accessible, and unfortunately they only
run on a few routes.
• Also unfortunately, the accessible busses can’t be determined by
color.
• Much of Rome’s city centre has very narrow streets that busses are
not able to drive on.
• Consequently, tourists in Rome have to do more walking than in other
major European cities such as Paris, London, Dublin, Berlin, Brussels,
and Athens.
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12. • Both of the busses below are accessible.
• They have low floors with ramps that extend to the curb for
wheelchair users to get on.
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13. The bus shown in the pictures below looks like the red one above but it
doesn’t have a ramp and there is a pole in the middle of the door that
makes it too narrow for wheelchairs.
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14. • The accessible busses have a ramp that the driver can extend to reach
the curb.
• Get the driver’s attention as the bus approaches or press the blue
button shown in the image on the right.
• When you want to get off the bus, press the button in the space next
to the wheelchair spot.
• The wheelchair spot has instructions shown in the picture on the right.
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15. • The picture below shows a car parked in the area where busses are
supposed to be able to pull up to the curb.
• It is common that the busses stop in the street far from the curb.
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16. • These signs are found and the bus stop locations.
• They indicate which lines are wheelchair accessible and they list the
stops along each of the routes.
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17. Getting around Rome with a Disability by Electric Bus
• A small electric bus runs from Piazza del Popolo down Via del Corso
to Piazza Venezia.
• It doesn’t pull up next to a curb so the ramp is very steep.
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18. Rome Tram Accessibility
• Trams run through a few parts of Rome and have steps to get in and
out of them.
• The tram lines do not run through the center of Rome so they are not
very useful for tourists.
• These pictures were taken just south of Termini station.
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19. Getting around Rome by Metro with a Disability
• Metro A – Only Valle Aurelia and Cipro Musei Vaticani stations
provide disabled access. Consequently, Metro A is not useful for
disabled tourists in Rome.
• Metro B – All stations have disabled access except Circo Massimo,
Colosseo, and Cavour. The most useful route would be to connect
Termini with Colosseo. Because Colosseo is not wheelchair accessible,
Metro B is not helpful for disabled tourist in Rome.
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20. Getting around Rome by Metro with a Disability

21. Traveling by Rome Taxi with a Disability
• Some of the taxis in Rome are the station wagon type shown in the
2 pictures below.
• Other taxis are the 4 door type shown in the picture at the bottom.
• Tourists traveling between tourist attractions will typically pay
between 10 and 20 euro.
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