Marco Polo Pocket Guide Rome: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips. Explore Rome with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the city`s trendiest places, & get tips on shopping & what to do on a limited budget. There are plenty of ideas for travel with kids, & a summary of all the festivals & events that take place in the Italian capital. Let Marco Polo show you all this wonderful city has to offer... Whether on the Capitoline Hill, at the Colosseum or in Campo de` Fiori, for centuries Rome has displayed her grace & grandeur. Rediscover the Eternal City whose classical temples, columns & baroque church facades shine in new splendour. Enjoy the fashion haven of the Alta Moda, a foamy cappuccino on a piazza, or immerse yourself in the trendy Testaccio district. This is Rome! Your Marco Polo Rome Pocket Guide
Includes:: Insider Tips
- we show you the hidden gems & little known secrets that offer a real insight into the city from authentic Roman cooking with a local host, fairy-tale villas & palazzi to legendary frescoes, mosaics & sculptures. Best of
- find the best things to do for free, the best `only in` Rome experiences, the best things to do if it rains & the best places to relax & spoil yourself. Sightseeing
- all of the top sights are organised by areas of the city so you can easily plan your day. Discovery Tours
- 5 specially tailored tours that will get you to the heart of Rome, on foot, by bike or train. Enjoy a cappuccino over the Capitol, a stroll through its ancient history, a visit to St. Peter`s, aperitivo on the piazza & evening meal in the ghetto. You can experience Rome`s unique charm, h&-picked restaurants & the best local activities with these personal tours. Rome in full-colour
- Marco Polo Pocket Guide Rome

Includes:: full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the city to life offering you a real taste of what you can see & enjoy on your trip. Touring App
- new for 2018, you can download any of the Discovery Tours to your smartphone, complete with the detailed route description & map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators & landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. Enjoy stress-free sightseeing & never get lost again! Street Atlas & pull-out map
- we`ve included a detailed street atlas & a handy, pull-out map so you can pop the guide in your bag for a full-on sightseeing day or head out with just the map to enjoy your Discovery Tour. Useful Italian phrases
- the essential words & phrases are included to help you get by. Trust Marco Polo Pocket Guide Rome to show you around this fabulous city. The comprehensive coverage & unique insights will ensure you experience everything Rome has to offer & more. The special tips, personal insights & unusual experiences will help you make the most of your trip
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Rome in the Marco Polo Spiral Guides series is a practical guide presenting the most important things to see & do in the city in a nutshell, & aimed at travellers who don’t have a lot of time to prepare & research for a trip. The guide highlights the top 10 sights, suggests tours & great ideas for exciting days out, & features colour photographs & a pull-out street map & atlas pages. The guide opens with introductory chapters offering general information about the region, its history, art, geography & the people & things that make it worth visiting. Then, the guide divides the area into sections, & for each offers more specific information organised by Getting Your Bearings, Perfect Days giving examples of planned itineraries, the Top 10, Don’t Miss & At Your Leisure. There are planned day itineraries for each area including the best places to eat & drink along the way, accompanied by local map extracts & dotted with useful tips. An additional chapter offers inspirations for walks & tours. The guide concludes with general & practical information, street atlas pages & a removable pull-out map, conveniently stored in a plastic pocket on the back cover. The format is designed with practicality in mind; the spiral binding & the colour coding makes it easy to keep the book open where is needed & render orientation fast & easy, ideal for travellers on the go. ...

Marco Polo Handbooks offer expert advice & are aimed at travellers looking for in-depth coverage of a destination
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Michelin’s street plan of Rome at 1:10, 500 is primarily designed to be used for access to & travel across the city by car, given its coverage of the outer suburbs & very detailed presentation of the road network & its main junctions. This very large map presents the city’s road network with the usual care associated with Michelin’s road maps: detailed layout of motorway or dual carriageway junctions, tunnels, etc. Main traffic arteries leading to the city centre are highlighted, the restricted entry zone is clearly marked, & one way streets are indicated. The plan shows rail & metro lines with names of stations, with an additional diagram of the network included in the index booklet. Public buildings & facilities such as museums, theatres, historical monuments, churches, etc., are highlighted & named. The map has no separate enlargement for the city’s historic centre. The index is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Rome at 1:12, 500 on a “write & wipe” waterproof & tear-resistant, indexed street plan from Michelin with an enlargement of the Piazza Navona area, a road map of the city’s environs, a metro diagram, plus sightseeing recommendations based on the publisher’s Green Guide. On one side is a street plan extending from the Vatican & the Trastevere district to beyond the Termini railway station, & from the Villa Borghese Park south to Terme di Caracalla & Testaccio. Accompanying inset presents in greater detail the central area from the Pantheon to the Tiber. Important buildings & places of interest are clearly marked & named, with 29 specially selected locations cross-referenced to their descriptions on the reverse. Metro stations are clearly marked. Street index, on the reverse,

Includes:: a list of points of interest. The reverse side also

Includes:: three sections with 29 star-rated recommendations: The Essentials, Also Worth Seeing, & Our Favourites. Also provided is a road map of the Rome’s area (including access to Leonardo da Vinci & Ciampino airports), a diagram of the metro network, plus practical information (getting around, opening hours & public holidays, etc). All the text is in English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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With the updated Green Guide Rome in h&, travelers have all they need to unlock the city’s secrets. Michelin’s celebrated star-rating system makes it easy to choose where to go, & what to see & do, in a city filled with world-famous historic sights, landmarks, museums & panoramic viewpoints. Dedicated sections for Ancient Rome & the Vatican City, colour photos, detailed maps & recommendations for hotels & restaurants round out the picture, so travelers can craft their own exciting travel adventures. · Updated edition with full-color photos & plenty of detail travelers look for. · Attractions reviewed & rated, using Michelin`s celebrated star-rating system, from the breath-taking three-star Trevi Fountain, immortalized in many films, to the one-star Porte Maggiore, built originally to carry the Claudian Aqueduct into the city. · Walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches & attractions;

Includes:: illustrations & floor plans to zoom in on the highlights & masterpieces. · Discover the different neighborhoods of the city; take a stroll through the Piazza Navoni area with its churches & palaces rich with murals, statues & art. Michelin’s multiple walking tours offer a more in-depth, personal experience of the city. · Comprehensive illustrated sections on modern-day Rome, its art, architecture, history & culture, all written by experts in their fields. · Sidebars throughout the guide focus on diverse topics such as Roman aqueducts, restoration of the Sistine Chapel, & the traditional Grand Tour during the 18C-19C. · Detailed visitor information given for every attraction, opening hours, entry fees, tour times, phone, website. Michelin area & city maps. ·

Includes:: recommendations for great places to eat & stay for every budget.



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Rome in Michelin’s ‘ Must Sees’ series is a lightweight guide containing must see information, must see sights, must do activities & must know practicalities graded using Michelin’s time-honoured star rating system. The guide opens with a section of useful ‘ Must Know’ information that

Includes:: a calendar of events, practical tips on getting by & a summary of Michelin selected star attractions. The ‘ Must See’ section of the guide look at shopping, nightlife & theatre, hotels & dining, parks & gardens, neighbourhoods, landmarks, museums, historic sites, practical information, events, tips & excursions. The ‘ Must Do’ chapter

Includes:: a focus on activities for children, whereas places to eat & places to stay are reviewed in the ‘ Must Eat’ & ‘ Must Stay’ chapters.



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Clear colourful street plan of central Rome, highlighting places of interest. The plan indicates one-way streets & car parks, selected hotels, etc. An enlargement shows the Vatican City in greater detail. The plan is indexed & also

Includes:: a diagram of the metro network, a plan of the Leonardo da Vinci airport, & a road map of the environs of the city. Travel tips provide general information for visitors. The map is laminated in durable plastic.

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The new Moleskine City Notebooks are ideal for those who travel, whether to see the sights or for work, as a way of organising trips & to preserving it for memories & records. It is perfect for those who live there, as a way of organizing the things they know & need about the city they live in. Each notebook has an elastic closure, 228 pages, with up to 44 pages in colour & have a sewn binding. There is an inside accordion pocket & three ribbon placemarkers, each in a different colour. ...

When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, & the area beyond, which they sought to isolate rather than control. Along the long frontier of the Euphrates in Turkey lay the easternmost limits of the Roman Empire--a region they called Augusta Euphrantentis. Their expanding involvement lasted eight centuries, draining their energies & culminating in the destruction of the bridge that, since the time of Alexander the Great, had linked China to the commerce of the Mediterranean. Tracing the path of this ancient river & highlighting her travels with the vibrant history of 800 years of Roman warfare & the history of this mighty river, Freya Stark ultimately reveals the futility of war, of arbitrary boundaries, & territorial conquest. Rome on the Euphrates, at once travel & history, is one of her most magnificent & highly acclaimed works. ...