🇮🇹Rome, Italy
Acea Run Rome The Marathon
Mar 14, 2027
Race facts
Next edition · 2027
Mar 14, 2027
ScheduledStart
Via dei Fori Imperiali with the Colosseum at your back — wheelchairs 8:00am, then waves from about 8:10 to 9:00am
Course
210 melevation gain
- Distance · surface
- 42.2 km · Road
- Layout
- City loop, essentially flat, with cobbled sections
- Profile
- Flat — highest point 31 m, lowest 8 m — with cobbles through the centre and a few gentle rises
Entry
Direct online registration, first come first served, with tiered pricing; it can close early at capacity
- Status · last recorded
- Registration open
- Registration
- Opens the spring before the race — 2027 entries opened by April 2026 at €99 until 30 May 2026, rising in later phases
Dates and entry details change. Confirm with the organiser before you book.
PB potential
Technical or hilly — come for the experience, not the time
Beginner friendly
Suitable for beginners with solid training
About this race
No marathon can match Rome for sheer density of world-historical monuments per kilometre. The course passes the Colosseum (at both km 5 and km 38), the Roman Forum, Circus Maximus, Capitoline Hill, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant'Angelo, St Peter's Square, and the Borghese Gardens. Running these cobbled streets — past ruins that predate Christianity — creates a sense of scale and time that no other marathon can replicate. The trade-off is practicality: cobblestones, narrow streets, a 210m elevation profile with several sharp climbs, and March weather that can range from unseasonably warm (20°C+) to rainy and cold. This is a race you run for the experience, not the clock.
Typical race-day weather
Temperature
10–18°C
Humidity
55–70%
Conditions
Variable Roman spring — sunny or showery
Wind
Light to moderate, 10–20 km/h
Who this race suits
Sightseers first: more monuments per kilometre than any marathon on earth, a generous 7-hour limit and free pacers. It also suits a solid time — the course is almost flat.
Flat (barely 25 m between the highest and lowest points) but not a pure PB course: long stretches of sampietrini cobbles, tight turns and a big field slow the early kilometres. A good March day gives a quick time; the stones cost a few minutes.
Overview
- Field size
- One of Europe's biggest spring fields; a waiting list opens if capacity is reached
- Cut-off time
- 7 hours (2027 rules)
- Pace support
- Official pacers provided free of charge
- When
- Mid-March; the 2027 edition is confirmed for Sunday 14 March 2027
Course intelligence
- Highlights
- Colosseum, Piazza Venezia and the Vittoriano, Circus Maximus, Castel Sant'Angelo and Via della Conciliazione with St Peter's ahead
- Surface
- Asphalt with long sampietrini (cobblestone) stretches — wear shoes you trust on uneven ground
Registration
- Medical certificate
- Required for everyone, Italian or not: a valid certificate for competitive athletics uploaded at registration (a Runcard alone is not enough)
- Note
- Fees are non-refundable; transfers to another runner are allowed until mid-January for €30 plus fees. Minimum age 20
Race weekend
- Finish
- In the Fori Imperiali–Circus Maximus area beside the Colosseum; check the 2027 course map for the exact line
- Expo
- Expo Village on the Thursday to Saturday before race day (Circus Maximus in 2026; the 2027 venue is to be confirmed); bibs must be collected in person with ID — no race-day pickup
- Bag drop
- Only the official race-pack backpack with your number label is accepted
Travel & logistics
- Best airport
- Rome Fiumicino (FCO) — Leonardo Express to Termini in ~32 minutes; Ciampino (CIA) for low-cost flights
- Getting around
- Metro B to Colosseo for the start; much of the centre is walkable
- Where to stay
- Monti, Celio or near Termini — a short walk or one metro stop from the start
Runner tips
- Upload the medical certificate when you register, not the week before: it must say 'competitive athletics' and be valid on race day.
- Start steady — cobbles and crowds in the first 5 km make a fast opening a waste of energy.
- March in Rome can be 10°C and wet or 20°C and sunny; check the forecast on the Friday and plan layers.
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