re: Traveling to Spain and Italy

For Rome: Buy a Roma Pass, you get 3 museums/sites free then others are discounted and you will have a special expedited line at museums and Colosseum, etc. Well worth the $$ just for the expedited entry. Make a reservation before you leave for the Galleria Borghese or you will not get in. Do the Palatine Hill same day you do Colosseum. Go to Ostia Antica if you have time. There is so much to see in Rome you will barely make a dent in a week.