Tourists are back in Rome, some with American accents

ROME – He had arrived hours earlier on a crowded, COVID-19-tested flight from Atlanta to Rome, and now Levi Jackson, 24, was in the middle of a city coming back to life. The twinkling Trevi Fountain was seeping from the crowds down its amphitheater-like steps. The city’s best restaurants, as well as some of the worst, were fully occupied. Block by block from where Jackson stood, a revolving army of selfie stick sellers and caricaturists flocked and masked, dusting off bits of English, German and French.