Lonely Planet Rome

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781787014138
• eBook ISBN: 9781788686785

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Centro Storico

PANTHEON & AROUND | PIAZZA NAVONA & AROUND | CAMPO DE’ FIORI & AROUND | JEWISH GHETTO & AROUND | ISOLA TIBERINA | PIAZZA COLONNA & AROUND

Sights

Eating

Drinking & Nightlife

Entertainment

Shopping

Centro Storico

Neighbourhood Top Five

1 Pantheon Stepping into this ancient temple and feeling the same sense of awe that the ancients must have felt 2000 years ago.

2 Piazza Navona Marvelling at the beauty of this textbook baroque piazza with its flamboyant fountains and elegant domed chiesa.

3 Galleria Doria Pamphilj Having the scion of the aristocratic Doria Pamphilj dynasty talk you through his family art collection at this fabulous private gallery.

4 Chiesa di San Luigi dei Francesi Clocking three Caravaggio masterpieces at this historic church, one of Rome’s many baroque treasures.

5 Historic Streets Ditching your map and strolling the area’s atmospheric lanes, taking in the colourful street life and hidden nooks.

Explore Centro Storico

Rome’s centro storico (historic centre) is made for leisurely strolling, and although you could spend weeks exploring its every corner, you can cover most of the main sights in two or three days. Many people enter the area by bus, getting off at Largo di Torre Argentina, from where it’s a short walk up to the Pantheon and beyond that to Rome’s political nerve centre Piazza Colonna. Nearby, on Via del Corso, the Galleria Doria Pamphilj houses one of the capital’s finest private art collections. To the west of the Pantheon, the narrow lanes around Piazza Navona, itself one of Rome’s great must-see sights, are a magnet for tourists and hip Romans with bohemian boutiques, cool bars and popular restaurants.

On the other side of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the main thoroughfare through the area, all roads lead to Campo de’ Fiori, home of a colourful daily market and hectic late-night drinking scene. From ‘il Campo’ you can shop your way down to the medieval Jewish Ghetto, a wonderfully atmospheric neighbourhood of romantic corners, h...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Rome
• Rome’s Top 10
• What’s New
• Need to Know
• First Time Rome
• Top Itineraries
• If You Like
• Month by Month
• With Kids
• Like a Local
• For Free
• Eating
• Drinking & Nightlife
• Entertainment
• Shopping
• Museums, Galleries & Historic Sites
• Neighbourhoods at a Glance
• Ancient Rome
• Centro Storico
• Showtime on Centro Storico’s Piazzas
• Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale
• Vatican City, Borgo & Prati
• Rome’s Churches
• Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo
• Trastevere & Gianicolo
• Rome Street Life
• San Giovanni & Testaccio
• Villa Borghese & Northern Rome
• Roman Catacombs
• Southern Rome
• Day Trips from Rome
• Sleeping
• Rome Today
• History
• The Arts
• Architecture
• The Roman Way of Life
• Transport
• Directory A–Z
• Language
• Behind the Scenes
• Rome Maps
• Our Writers