Rome in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

Rome in the Italia series from Footprint; comprising of a range of titles dedicated to the regions of Italy & designed for independent travellers who like exploring off the beaten track. Footprint guides have an established reputation, built up since 1921, for catering for more adventurous & individual travellers. Each author has travelled extensively to provide unique insights into Italy’s best loved regions & individual guides provide comprehensive descriptions of the main sights, as well as many lesser known gems. There are also listings of the best value & most romantic places to stay, where to enjoy an ‘apertivo’, sample local food & buy local specialties. Widely recognized for their reliability & independent writing style, each guide in the Footprint Italia series helps visitors plan their trip, with lively insights on subjects such as the Roman Empire & coffee culture. An introductory section profiles the region, with an overview map, selection of notable highlights, a month by month calendar & the best of the area in books & on screen. Each section has a particular focus on local sights & places of interest, with details of accommodation, restaurants & nightlife also included. A ‘ Practicalities’ section also gives guidance on getting there & around, Italian for beginners & a Directory with information on disabled travellers, etiquette, families, health, insurance, money, police, post, safety, tipping & other useful tourist information.A ‘ Background’ section explores the history, economy, government, education, culture, people, land & environment of the destination in significant depth. There is also a ‘ Footnotes’ chapter with a basic language guide for travellers & information about the author. A useful distance chart tailored to the destination is also included in the inside back cover. ...

Rome Baedeker is divided into four main categories
- background, practicalities, tours & A-Z of sites. The guide is introduced
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Rome in the Luxe city guides series, which are slim & small enough to fit easily in a pocket or handbag. Information is distilled from elite suggestions by city residents, specially selected for their style, knowledge & expertise. Luxe guides aim at the upper end of the market & subjectively edit to choose the very best recommendations for shopping, restaurants, leisure options & nightlife. Half day shopping & activity itineraries are suggested for you to mix & match your visit to suit your timetable. When folded close the cardboard guide slots into its own protective plastic frame. Vanity Fair magazine calls them ...

Rome on a waterproof & tear-resistant, indexed map from Touring Club Italiano, combining two street plans of the city with a road map of its environs. Clear, elegant cartography & subtle colouring make TCI plans particularly easy to read. On one half of the sheet is a more general plan of the city with its outer districts at 1:12, 000, as indicated on our area image. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & metro stations are marked. Various public buildings, churches, etc, are highlighted & named. Unusually for street plans, outside the built-up areas, e.g. in the Villa Doria Pamphilj, the map is contoured to show the topography. The remaining part of the sheet is split between a detailed enlargement of the city ...

Rome in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual & artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial & Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael, Michelangelo & Brunelleschi, shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth, eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, when Rome`s cultural predominance was assured, artists & tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens & Bernini. Hughes` Rome is a vibrant, contradictory, spectacular & secretive place; a monument both to human glory & human error. In equal parts loving, iconoclastic, enraged & wise, peopled with colourful figures & rich in unexpected details, ROME is an exhilarating journey through the story of one of the world`s most glorious cities. ...

Now in its fourth Italian edition & second German edition, this incomparable guide to Rome is now published in English, in a fully updated & newly illustrated edition. Written by one of Italy`s most distinguished journalists, it combines vivid, engaging description & background with great practicality & comprehensive information. From the foreword ` This book is both for people who have not visited Rome & for those whose efforts to understand it have been frustrated by its sheer complexity. Although good for visits of any length, it is especially helpful for people with only a few days to spend in Rome. Also, this book is for everybody, from the ignoramus to the connoisseur. A short visit does not mean a short guidebook! On the contrary, a guide rich in easily digestible information can make a short stay much more meaningful. This book differs from standard guidebooks in three major ways: You can read large portions before seeing the sights. It is broken into realistically timed, carefully organized itineraries. But you can also customize them according to your own particular needs & length of stay. Sections that aren`t essential are marked as optional & you can skip them without compromising your aim of mastering `basic` Rome. Each Walk has a theme. This helps you appreciate the sights, remember the information, & orient yourself.` At the same time this is probably the most comprehensive reference guide to Rome available, making it ideal for any traveller looking for their own routes around the city. Full indexes, including a biographical dictionary of artists make this information highly accessible, & hundreds of maps & diagrams make orientation foolproof. The book is completed with 32 pages of colour & 150 b/w illustrations ...

Six years after his first, very thorough, revision, John Fort has returned to the task, so that this long-honoured guidebook, regarded by the discerning visitor, since its first publication forty years ago, as the indispensable introduction to the glories of Rome, continues to give an accurate picture of the city`s treasures as they are currently displayed. This latest edition of the ” Guide” is immeasurably enhanced by the replacement of the old street plans with new, clear versions of the itineraries that structure a volume which remains the unrivalled guide to perhaps the most beautiful & historic city in the world. John Fort, who has lived in the city for the past thirty years, walked every step of the routes described so vividly by Georgina Masson, & many more besides. In addition to checking & updating the information she provided so inimitably, he uncovered & describes a wealth of sights which slipped her notice, & accompanies the visitor through all the major museums & galleries as now arranged. The result is a guide to that incomparable array of classical, Renaissance & Baroque masterpieces which will enthral first-time visitors to the Eternal City & also delight the persistent returnee with fresh inspiration & stimulation. ...

The pictures in this stunning volume evoke the magic of Italy's capital city & its environs. A repository of 3, 000 years ...