Product Description

In search of culture and romance? – with more colour, more maps and more photos, The Rough Guide to Rome is your definitive handbook to the world’s most captivating city. From the Roman Forum and the Catacombs to Piazza Navona and the Sistine Chapel the full-colour section introduces all Rome’s “must-sees”. Expanded coverage of Rome’s essential sights complete with brand new “author pick” featuring of all the best places to eat, drink and stay to suit every budget. You’ll find plenty of practical advice on enticing excursions including Tivoli, the beautiful preserved ruins of Ostia and the closest beaches. The guide also takes a comprehensive look at Rome’s enormous classical origins, perfect fusion of ancient, renaissance, baroque and modern, and comes complete with maps and plans for every area. The Rough Guide to Rome is like having a local friend plan your trip!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57138 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
Martin Dunford is the co-founder of the Rough Guides series and has authored Rough Guides to Amsterdam, Belgium, Brussels, The Netherlands, Italy and New York

Customer Reviews

Difficult to use
I am usually a fan of the Rough Guides range of travel books. However I found this one really difficult to use. The maps didn't cross reference easily meaning you had to hunt through each separate section using another map to find what you were looking for. Trying to find a recommended restaurant was almost impossible.

On the plus side the introduction was very useful and details regarding rules and regulations for the more religious areas of Rome were excellent.

There are some good hints and tips in here but overall the book was too complicated to use and as such stayed in the hotel room.

Please Do not Ruin Your Holiday Buying This Book
As the other reviewer has said this book is is a nightmare. Badly laid out, with no map of the city overall making it difficult to understand where you are.
The restaurants that were tried in Bracciano were both disappointing. The shopping section was also poor - the major shopping mall at the termini was no more than you would get at the airport. Poorly written over complicated - the book lost its credibility and therfore ending up in the bin before it completey ruined our holiday.
Do not buy!!

Not a map - but extremely useful!!!
Other reviewers have commented on the fact that this guide book isn't very helpful for finding your way around Rome, which is a fair criticism, however it does contain very useful smaller, more detailed maps of particular areas of interest and when used in conjunction with a map (which are given out free in most hotels and hostels) the guide really stand outs for what it is; an extremely useful reference for all of the attractions and notable sights of the wonderful city of Rome