Rome Pop-Out Map from Compass Maps in a series designed to provide two street plans, the city centre plus a wider area around it, in a handy format to fit neatly all but the smallest pockets, with, as appropriate, transport network diagrams, additional useful maps, etc. Each title ...

Rome Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Rome Province at 1:150, 000 in a series of handy size provincial road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & country tracks than can be found on most regional maps from other publishers. This title is now available in a digitally produced edition.LAC’s provincial series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Ancient Rome reconstructed to its original magnificence. Each site is illustrated as it is & a previous acetate page overlay gives a reconstruction as it was when it was built. The opposite page of text gives statistics, dates, facts about the building or site. Ring bound with Canadian style binding for the spine allows for flat opening & easy manipulation of the overlay page. Double sided gate fold pages Index included ...

Central Rome on a tourist street plan from Red Maps presented in a handy concertina format & printed on thick high quality paper, with thematic indexes for ancient sites, museums & churches, hotels, shopping, etc. The plan presents central Rome at 1:11, 400 approx, covering the area between the Vatican & the Termini railway station & from just north of the Spanish Steps to the Coliseum. Main buildings, colour-coded into different types (ancient Rome, museums, churches, palaces, hotels, etc), are named & main shopping streets & traffic routes across the city are highlighted. On the reverse a separate panel shows the Flamino district with the sites of the 1960 Olympic Games & the nearby cultural centres. The map has thematic lists of sights & important buildings, hotels, etc. A special panel provides street-by-street recommendations of (mainly fashion) shops. An index lists squares & a selection of major streets. To see other street plans from Red Maps with similar presentation please click on the series link. ...

Rome in the AA Spiral Guides series; comprising a selection of titles exploring a wide range of cities, regions & countries in a handy, spiral loose-leaf format. Fold-out flaps at the front & back of each title give an overview of the main regions covered, with page numbers so visitors can locate their destination easily. Each guide explores the destination geographically by region or area & provides the essential information for the main sites & attractions in addition to a recommended tour of each area by car. An introductory section - ...

Rome in the Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around the city. The guide features eighteen route recommendations that link up better known sights & take you off of the more beaten track; they are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & who offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guide has an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the background & descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An overview chapter opens the guide & reviews geography, customs & culture, history, food & drink, shopping, culture & entertainment. Next feature the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours, each of which have a good amount of accompanying information & come with a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do with day to day basics & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher ...

During its three-thous&-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation & the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, the place holds an alternative significance as a realm of fantasy, aspiration & desire. Captivating & lethal at one & the same moment, its fatal gift of beauty both transfigures & betrays those in thrall to it. Rome Stories explores the city`s fateful impact through the writing of classical historians, a Renaissance sculptor, 18th-century tourists, American, British & French novelists & the authors of modern Rome, each testing & unravelling the city`s ageless paradoxes. Gibbon admires the Last of the Tribunes, Goethe decodes the mysteries of the Carnival & Stendhal`s subversive aristocrats mingle revolution with a little cross-dressing amid their gilt mirrors & frescoed ceilings From Plutarch to Pasolini, from Hawthorne to Wharton, the city of Caesars & popes, of dreamers, chancers & hustlers confronts the questing imagination with its eternally unflinching gaze. ...

In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth & contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco & Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of discovering & exploring one of the world`s most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives & epochs. The tales span seven hundred years but rather than being ordered chronologically, old & new appear alongside one another, reflecting the dual identity of Rome
- thriving, modern metropolis & ancient city centre that is one of the wonders of the world. The tales are wonderfully varied in style, tone, & subject matter. Casanova sets about seducing the hotelier`s daughter only minutes after his arrival, a notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public hiding without flinching, a Danish tourist in her sixties finds an unusual lover, Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against him, a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same fate as Mussolini. Each story is illustrated with a black-&-white photograph & there is a map of Rome to help readers locate the important sites which feature in the text. A deep sense of timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of dramatic, comic, & tragic stories set in the Eternal City.
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Pocket street atlas of Rome with Touring Club Italiano’s elegant & exceptionally clear cartography, highlighting for areas of particular interest to present different aspects of the city, publishers’ recommendations for sightseeing, shopping etc, & practical tourist information for visitors. Mapping at 1:12, 500 covers the city inner districts, roughly from the Olympic Stadium & the Villa Ada to the Ostiense district & the first part of the Via Appia Antica, plus the E.U.R. The city’s historic centre, from the Vatican & Trastevere to the Termini station is also shown in greater detail at 1:7, 500. As with all TCI street plans, names of smaller streets or passages, of metro & railway stations, etc, are clear & easy to read. Various areas worth exploring are prominently highlighted & cross-referenced to the publishers’ list. Also marked & listed are TCI’s recommendations for museums, churches, food & wine nightlife, shopping, etc. The atlas provides extensive practical tourist information about public transport, out of town excursions, etc. Also included are: a diagram of the metro/railway network, map of Rome within the motorway ring, a map of the city’s environs, plus a road map of Italy highlighting main areas of tourist interest. Map legend & all the text include English. ...