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The City of Rome is the capital of Italy and of its Latium region. It is located on the Tiber and Aniene rivers, near the Mediterranean Sea.

The Vatican City, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the home of the Pope.


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Campsites and Caravanning

  Camping.it   -   Camp site Rome

Hotels in Rome

  Booking  -  Hotels in Rome   -   Hotel Guide Rome
Hotels in the districts Aurelio, Aventino, Campo Marzio, Celio, Esquilino, Eur, Flaminio, Ludovisi, Marsala, Navona, Nomentano, Pantheon, Parioli, Ponte, Porta Portese, Prati, Repubblica, Salario, Sallustiano, San Giovanni, San Lorenzo, Spagna, Testaccio, Tiburtino, Torre Angela, Trastevere, Trevi,Tuscolana, Vaticano, Via Veneto.

  Rome30.com   -  
Rome Cheap Hotels, Hostels, Apartments and B&B's.  

  Eurostars International Palace ****, Via Nazionale 46, 00184 Rome
Set on Via Nazionale, in the heart of Rome, this late 19th-century building has been entirely renovated to offer an elegant and welcoming hotel.
Distinguishing itself from its surroundings, the front part of the building displays classic Renaissance architecture. The hall takes inspiration from the Palladian Villas, with a series of Trompe l'oeil along the walls.
The Eurostars International Palace is central in ancient Rome, just a few hundred metres from the Termini railway station and close to Piazza della Repubblica.

  La Griffe ****, Via Nazionale 13, 00184 Rome
Found in the heart of the Eternal City, between Piazza Venezia and Piazza della Repubblica, and overlooking Via Nazionale, the hotel is immersed in Rome's vibrant daily life.
Within easy reach of the city's main attractions, including the Spanish Steps, the Colosseum and the Imperial Forum, the hotel is the ideal base for you to explore this historic city. Alternatively, if you are staying on business, the hotel offers a business centre with rooms for 10-80 people, and is just a short distance from the Termini station and Fiumicino's Leonardo Da Vinci airport.

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

  easyJet holidays   -   Rome City Breaks
If you are looking for a romantic city break, Rome doesn't fail to delight. Sites such as the Trevi fountain and Spanish Steps are beautiful stops when exploring the city. But for some time off the beaten track, a walk up Gianicolo Hill offers the most wonderful views of Rome. And watching the sun set dining al fresco in the city centre is the perfect way to end the day, whatever the occasion.

Kuoni Travel   -   City trip Rome
Known as "Caput Mundi" (capital of the world), Rome, perhaps, is the most compelling and fascinating of all Italy's historical cities. There is arguably more to see in Rome than any other city in the world, with the relics of over two thousand years packed into its sprawling metropolis. A vibrant mixture of medieval and ancient history, baroque architecture, Italian art and modern fashionable designer shops.

Thomas Cook    -   City trips Rome

Jet2Holidays

 P&O Cruises
Cruise holidays Western Mediterranean.



  Bridge Travel   -   short breaks in Rome

  Scuola Leonardo da Vinci   -   study Italian in Rome
Founded in 1977 and located in the centre of Rome. It ranks among the best known language Institutes in Italy.

Travel Guides Rome / Related books

Travel Guides Rome  [ amazon.co.uk ]

  DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Rome
Adele Evans (Author)
Paperback: 448 pages; Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (1 Mar 2011); ISBN-10: 1405348372

  Rome: City Guide (Lonely Planet City Guide)
Duncan Garwood (Author)
Paperback: 324 pages; Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 6th edition edition (1 Feb 2010); ISBN-10: 1741793238

  The Rough Guide to Rome
Martin Dunford (Author)
Paperback: 336 pages; Publisher: Rough Guides; 4 edition (30 Aug 2010); ISBN-10: 1848365276

Transport / How do I travel to Rome

  Airports Rome [ Leonardo da Vinci and Fiumicino ]

  

 
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  Airline Tickets Rome / Bargain Flights 
Cheap flight tickets to Rome / price comparison possible

  Trambus   -   Trasporto publico  -  Ua. Ligna Turistica 110 [ open bus ] und Archeobus

  Roma Termini   -   Roman station
Rome Termini of today and the ancient Roman station, a temporary wooden shed, have one thing in common: they are located at the end ("termine" in Italian) of a railway network. The name Termini has however nothing to do with this peculiarity; it originated instead from the fact that the station is close to the Diocletian Baths, which in Latin are called thermae.
Today's Roma Termini is a hub of services and resources directly interacting with its surroundings.
Tourist information bureaus and postal offices, public transportation, worship places, monuments and guided tours, opportunities for leisure time, night clubs: a complete "map" of the main services and cultural attractions offered by the immediate surroundings of Roma Termini to tourists and dwellers follows ...

The metro can be useful, although its range is limited, while buses and trams have private lanes to help them through the traffic. Within the central area, many sites are within walking distance.


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  Roma Turismo
Hotel, Residence, B&B, Lodging Houses, Holiday Homes, Private apartments, Campsies, Youth Hostels, Beaches, Events in Rome, Rome in 48 hours

  Comune di Roma   -   City of Rome

  Appian Way / Via Appia Antica
The Appian Way is the most important Roman road. It was called regina viarum, "the queen of the roads." Its construction was started in 312 BC by the consul Appius Claudius Caecus on an existing track that connected Rome with the Alban Hills.
The Via Appia was also the site of the first milestones.
   Basilica of Saint Peter   -   second largest church in Christianity,
The Basilica of Saint Peter, officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and colloquially called Saint Peter's Basilica, ranks second among the five major basilicas of Rome and its Vatican City enclave. See St. Peter's Basilica
  Campidoglio
From earliest times on, the Capitolione hill [ or Campidoglio ] was the centre of the political, social, and religious life of Rome. In addition to the old asylum, this was the site of the grat Italic temple dedicated to the Capitoline Jupiter. Piazza del Campidoglio's current appearance dates back to the middle of the XV century when it was designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
The piazza's component parts (buildings, sculptures and decorated paving) were intended by Michelangelo to form one single organic unity, although over the centuries there have been a number of alterations and additions. See Roma 2000
  Capitoline Museum   -   Roma Musei Capitolini - Sito Ufficiale
The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of bronze statues of great symbolic value to the People of Rome.
The collections are closely linked to the city of Rome, and most of the exhibits come from the city itself.
  Baths of Caracalla / Thermae Antoninianae  -  see Wikipedia
The Baths of Caracalla were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between 212 and 216 CE, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. The extensive ruins of the baths have become a popular tourist attraction.
  Castel St. Angelo  -  Ponte St. Angelo [ bridge ]
One of Rome's most ancient bridges and certainly the most beautiful. Its Baroque statuary is from Bernini's studio, but the three central spans are attributed to Emperor Hadrian  -  see Virtual Panorama Hadrian's Mausoleum
  Catacombe Rome 
  Colosseum
The Colosseum is the most famous monument of Ancient Rome. Its original name is Flavian Amphitheatre. It was started by the Emperor Vespasian between 70 and 76 AD, and completed by his son Titus in 80 AD. The Colosseum was dedicated the year after Vespasian's death by Titus. They celebrated the opening by holding 100 days worth of games there. It was built on the site where Nero had had a huge villa for himself (Domus Aurea). Vespasian wanted to build something for the people rather than for himself. It got its popular name, the Colosseum, because it was built near where Nero had erected a huge statue, or colossus of himself. It showed him as the god of the sun. It was 100 feet high, and it was the largest gilded bronze statue in antiquity. It was later moved away. It took 24 elephants to move it! See Wikipedia.
  Trajan's Forum / Foro Trajano
The forum was built on the order of Emperor Trajan with the spoils of war from the conquest of Dacia, which ended in 106. The Fasti Ostiensi states that the Forum was inaugurated in 112, while Trajan's Column was inaugurated in 113.
  Fori Imperiali 
The brief history of Rome, the description of the Forums area, life in antique Rome, test your knowledge of the antique Romans
As there ar : Foro di Traiano, Foro di Augusto, Foro di Cesare, Foro di Nerva and Foro di Vespasiano
  Forum Romanum   -   central area around which ancient Rome developed
The Roman Forum, the most important archaeological area in Rome, extends from the Capitol Hill to the Palatine. See Wikipedia
  Museo civico di zoologia
  Planetario e museo astronomico
  Pantheon   -   a temple built in 27 BC to all Roman gods, now a Christian church
The Pantheon is the building of ancient Rome which has been preserved best down to the present day, and is a true masterpiece of architecture. The name of Agrippa, which can still be read on the façade, remembers the son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus, who first built this temple dedicated "to all the gods". The present -day Pantheon however, completely different from the original, is the work of the Emperor Hadrian, who rebuilt the monument in the early 2nd century, keeping only the ancient inscription out of modesty.
In the 6th century the Byzantine emperor Phocas gave the building to Pope Boniface IV, who turned it into the present church of Sancta Maria ad Martyres.
The Pantheon today is the sanctuary of the kings of Italy: in fact it holds the tombs of Victor Emmanuel II, Humbert I and Margherita di Savoia
  Spanish Steps / Piazza di Spagna
The Spanish Steps ramp a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and the church Trinità dei Monti above. The monumental stairway, of 138 steps, was built with French diplomat Stefano Gueffier's funds (20,000 scudi) in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish embassy to the Holy See, today still located in the piazza below, with the Trinità dei Monti church above. See Wikipedia
  Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona is the pride of Baroque Rome. It has sculptural and architectural creations: by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers, 1651) in the center; by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi, the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone; and by Pietro da Cortona, who painted the gallery in the Pamphilj palace.
  Saint Peters Square
St. Peter's Square, or St. Peter's Piazza [ Piazza San Pietro ], is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica, in Vatican City. See St. Peter's Basilica.
  Vittoriano   -   national monument   -   Sito del Vittoriano   -   Museo del Risorgimento
  Vatican   -   official website

History and Imperial Rome comes to life in the extensive ruins of the Forum, once the business hub of the Roman Empire, and the massive amphitheatre of the Colosseum. Across the Tiber, the magnificent Dome of St Peter's dominates Vatican City, home to Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel and countless other masterpieces. Don't miss the Spanish Steps, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain… the list goes on.

  Rome in Virtual Reality

Cuisine   -   Roman recipes

The traditional Roman cuisine, that of the people, is based on rather simple dishes, fast to prepare, mostly highly abundant and bearers of cholesterol, but very tasty.

  Roman Cuisine
See also Cucina romana

  Roman Kichen
The kitchen table was the mirror of civilization and culture, reflecting the cultivation of land and the transformation of produce. What did the Romans eat? Sources from back then (Apicius, Juvenal, Petronius, Columella) have passed down the details of ingredients and their preparation, including etiquette and rituals.

History of Rome

  Rome's History   -   Wikipedia

  Institute and Museum of the history of science
  Villa Giulia National Museum in Rom
The Villa Giulia National Museum was founded in 1889 with the aim of collecting together all the pre-Roman antiquities of Latium, southern Etruria and Umbria, and mostly contains finds from excavation conducted in Latium between the Tiber and the sea and belonging to the Etruscan and Faliscan civilizations.
  Roma 2000

  Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi
  Museo napoleonico
  Museo di Roma in Trastevere

The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide   -   by Anthony Majanlahti
Hardcover 400 pages (May 5, 2005); Publisher: Chatto & Windus
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire   -   by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the greater part of the known world. This was thanks largely to the generals who led the Roman army to victory after victory, and whose strategic and tactical decisions shaped the course of several centuries of warfare. This book, by the author of THE PUNIC WARS, concentrates on those Roman generals who displayed exceptional gifts of leadership and who won the greatest victories. With 26 chapters covering the entire span of the Roman Empire, it is a complete history of Roman warfare.
Paperback 480 pages (August 19, 2004); Publisher: Phoenix mass market p/bk

Music, Arts & Culture, Events

  Casa del Jazz 

Rome contains a vast and impressive collection of art, sculpture, fountains, mosaics, frescos, and paintings, from all different periods.

  Roman art
  Ancient Roman Artt 

  Culture in Rome 

  Musei capitolini [aa]
  Centrale Montemartini [aa]
  Museo dei fori imperiali [aa]
  Museo dell'Ara Pacis [aa]
  Museo Barracco [aa]
  Museo della civiltà romana [aa]
  Museo delle mura [aa]
  Villa di Massenzio [aa]

  Museo di arte contemporanea (MACRO) 
  Museo Carlo Bilotti
  Museo Pietro Canonica
  Musei di Villa Torlonia

  Portale dei Musei in Comune

  Casa della Letterature
The House of the Literatures of Rome is a cross between a library with sections devoted to the various literatures of the world in different languages ​​(at least those are the intentions and from this derives the plural in the name) and an exhibition space.
 The "House" is located in a former part of the complex Borromini Oratorio dei Filippini.


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