Rome Insight City Guide

Insight Guides (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2004
APA Publications Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-4137-56-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This 258-page guidebook to Rome presents the city's highlights in a comprehensive but portable format, with the following key features: The Best of Rome: overview of vital information for visitors, including money- and time-saving tips and the most family-oriented attractions. Places: district-by-district guide, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps. Restaurant guide: a pull-out, pocket-size "Z" map, with review listings of recommended restaurants and bars. Photo Features: magazine-style full-colour features on some of the city's most famous sights, including museums and galleries. Essay Features: incisive essays on Rome's history, people and culture. Travel Tips: practical listings, covering Accommodation, Entertainment, Transport and more. Street Atlas: colour maps of main streets, with grid-referenced index.

Inhalt

Introduction: - The Best of Rome, The Eternal City. History: - The Making of Rome, Decisive Dates. Essay Features: - The Romans, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture, The Citys Changing Face, Food and Drink, Shopping. Places: - Introduction - The Capitoline HIll , Ancient Rome, Fontana di Trevi and Quirinale, Piazza di Spagna and Tridente, The Vatican and Prati, Piazza Navone and the Pantheon, Campo de Fiori and the Ghetto, Via Veneto and Villa Borghese, Trastevere and the Gianicolo, Aventino and Testaccio, Celio and San Giovanni, Monti and Esquilino, The Appian Way, Further Afield. Excursions from Rome:, Ostia Antica, Tivoli, Castelli Romani, Etruscan Towns. Photo Features: - Bernini and the Baroque, The Grim Glory of the Colosseum, Treasures of the Vatican, Markets, Relics of the Catacombs. Information Panels: - Rome on Film, Artigiani, Roman Fashion, Beaches. Travel Tips: - Transport, Accommodation, Activities, Theatre, Opera and Ballet, Classical Music, Museums and Art Galleries, Nightlife, Cinema , Children's Activities, Annual Events/Festivals, Shopping, Artigiani, Sports, Sightseeing Tours, A-Z Practical Information Maps, Rome (inside front flap), Ancient Rome, Fontana di Trevi and Quirinale, Piazza di Spagna and Tridente, Vatican and Prati, Piazza Navone, Pantheon and Campo de Fiori , Via Veneto and Villa Borghese, Trastevere and the Gianicolo, Aventino and Testaccio, Celio and San Giovanni, Monti and Esquilino, Appian Way, Further Afield, Ostia Antica, Atlas Section, Vatican, Palatine, Forum (inside back flap)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2004
• Reihe/Serie: Insight City Guides
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations, maps
• Verlagsort: Singapore
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 135 x 195 mm
• Themenwelt: Reiseführer ► Europa ► Italien
• ISBN-10: 981-4137-56-1 / 9814137561
• ISBN-13: 978-981-4137-56-0 / 9789814137560
• Zustand: Neuware