Insight Guides: Explore Rome

Insight Guides

• Publisher: Insight
• Print ISBN: 9781780059341
• eBook ISBN: 9781786716576
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

Few cities are as historically rich as Rome, with its layers of treasures from the days of the ancient empire to medieval and Renaissance times, all juxtaposed with buzz of the modern capital. With 17 easy-to-follow routes and a detailed pull-out map, Explore Rome will lead you to the heart of the city.
Inside Explore Rome:
Routes include a detailed itinerary around the Colosseum - as well as people-watching opportunities on the Spanish Steps, art treasures at the Vatican, trendy bars in Trastevere, and excursions to the ancient Roman villas and Castelli.
Insight's trademark cultural coverage perfectly sets the routes in context, with introductions to Roman cuisine, the city's great shopping and its key historical dates.
Hand-picked places to eat and drink are highlighted in each tour and in the directory section, which contains a wealth of practical information including a language guide, as well as a range of carefully selected hotels to suit all budgets.
Pull-out map with useful plotted routes.
Evocative photography captures Rome's beautiful architecture and stylish people.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

How To Use This E-Book

This Explore Guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

Best Routes

The routes in this book provide something to suit all budgets, tastes and trip lengths. As well as covering the destination’s many classic attractions, the itineraries track lesser-known sights, and there are also ex­cursions for those who want to extend their visit outside the city. The routes embrace a range of interests, so whether you are an art fan, a gourmet, a history buff or have kids to entertain, you will find an option to suit.

We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Food and Drink’ box at the end of each tour.

Introduction

The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus background information on food and drink, shopping and more, while a succinct history timel...

Table of contents

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• Explore Rome
• Food and drink
• Shopping
• Entertainment
• Museums
• History: Key Dates
• Capitoline Hill and Roman Forum
• The Colosseum
• Piazza Navona to Campo De’ Fiori
• Ara Pacis to the Pantheon
• Spanish Steps, Tridente and Trevi Fountain
• Quirinale, Barberini and Via Veneto
• Villa Borghese to Piazza del Popolo
• The Vatican
• Castel Sant’Angelo to the Gianicolo
• Jewish Quarter and Trastevere
• Aventino and Testaccio
• San Giovanni and Esquilino
• Diocletian Complex and Monti
• The Appian Way
• Tivoli’s villas
• Castelli Romani
• Ostia Antica
• Accommodation
• Restaurants
• Nightlife
• A-Z
• Language
• Books and Film