Just got back to hotel after a long day around Rome. Bloody rioters shut everything down even the colosseum! We were at Rome termini when the marches started then the smoke when they started setting fires which were coming out of the storm drain grates. Police everywhere blockading streets but we were able to navigate around. Metro was useless they kept skipping stops and crowds in the subways were intense. Notwithstanding all of this we stuck to our guns and saw coliseum, pantheon, Trevi fountain, forum, several cathedrals and churches and lots of piazzas mostly on foot because public transport was being diverted around the rioting including at the colosseum. As we walked back still choppers in the air and convoys of riot police vans charging through the streets. Had a nice dinner though at a street restaurant although a tad cold here now.