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Scooters rule in Rome.

Due not so much to heavy traffic as very limited parking space scooters are transport du jour but the ubiquitous cobblestones are extremely slippery when wet.
The centre of the city appears to have neither underground car parks [afraid of what they might find down there?] nor multistorey or even old style surface parks though a few small, expensive indoor parks exist.
Since 'imaginative' street parking is thus sine qua non the fashionistas have taken to short-ass Smart cars, so, for example, the Trastevere bistro area that gets packed at night sees a huge ratio of Smarts over regular motors, many parked nose-in to the kerb.