Sources, checks and limits of the list

The sources

We read each place’s website and note what it offers children: ages, the weekly timetable, prices and the period they cover, languages, trial classes and whether a parent has to stay.

Address, map position and opening hours can also come from the place’s Google Maps listing, and a sports club’s affiliation from the club list its federation publishes. This edition keeps only the places whose own website gives the ages and either the class times or the prices, and which have a website, a phone number, opening hours and a location inside the comune of Rome; places that publish less stay out for now. For the same reason, activity and municipio pages exist only where there are enough places to compare.

For every fact we keep the address of the page, the day it was read and a short quote in the page’s own language. Other online directories, newspapers, booking platforms, social networks and reviews are never used as sources.

Source flags

Each source carries one of three flags: published by the place (its website), Google listing (its Google Maps page), federation list (a sports federation’s list of affiliated clubs).

On a place’s page the flag and the date go with every fact, so you can see at once where it comes from and how recent it is.

Facts not published

When the pages we read lack a fact, the place’s page marks it as not published and the table shows a dash. “Not published” describes our sources, not the place.

Gaps are never filled with guesses. A school year, say seconda elementare, is not turned into an age. A price keeps the period the place gives; the one sum we do is the ≈ price per class, the cost of a package or course divided by the classes in it.

Two kinds of hours

The table has two columns of hours. Class times: the days and hours of a course or a camp day, as the place states them. Opening hours: when the location is open, often from the Google listing.

A location can be open at an hour when no group for a given age is on. Rows with opening hours only go under the dividing line, below a heading that says so.

The Afternoon classes page looks at weekday afternoons from 16:30 to 19:00, from the end of tempo pieno, the full school day of most state primaries in Rome. Children who finish at lunchtime on tempo normale can look for the early afternoon with the time filter. A course counts when one of its groups starts in that span.

What we do not judge

• No place, teacher, coach or programme is given a rating, a score or a position.
• We do not visit places: every fact comes from a published source.
• We do not assess the quality of classes, training or care.
• We cannot tell whether a group still has places: ask the place.
• Prices are as published, with period and date, and are not checked with the place.

Right of reply

If you run a listed place and a fact is wrong, incomplete or old, write to us through the report form with a link to the page that gives the right fact.

When the place’s pages confirm a correction, we apply it at the next update and note it in the update log. A place that closes keeps its page, marked as closed, but leaves every table.

Whoever runs a place can ask for it to be taken off the list: in the report form choose “Ask for a place to be removed” and leave a contact that shows your role. The place, its page and its records in the downloadable files are gone within a month.

Dates and updates

We read each place’s sources again within 6 months of the previous reading. A price published for a period that is over stays on the place’s page with that period, but filters and summaries leave it out.

How the site is funded

No place pays to be listed, and no payment changes a row or its position.

A place’s page may hold a link to Zartrace, a service linked to this list and marked as such. Clicks on the contact buttons are counted as totals only, with no personal data.

Open data

The full list can be downloaded as JSON, one record per place, and as CSV, one row per programme. Both files give sources, flags, dates and licence.

Areas, distance and the map

Rome is divided into fifteen municipi; within each, the list groups rioni, quartieri and outer zones into the areas parents name, such as Monteverde, Centocelle or EUR, forty areas that cover the whole comune. The Centro Storico joins sixteen of the twenty-two rioni. Locations in neighbouring towns such as Ciampino or Frascati are filed under their town. A location belongs to the area whose boundary contains it.

Distance is a straight line from the point you choose to the nearest location, rounded to half a kilometre. Your location is asked for only when you press the button and never leaves your browser.

Points worked out from an address are approximate. Map data and the boundaries of municipi and areas © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL licence.