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Blue Guide Rome by: Alta Macadam List Price: CDN$ 38.00 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 23.94 You Save: CDN$14.06 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9780393328875 ISBN: 0393328872 Label: WW Norton Manufacturer: WW Norton Number Of Pages: 623 Publication Date: March 28, 2006 Publisher: WW Norton Studio: WW Norton Sales Rank: 117451 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - a fine guide to the historical/cultural sitesThis book divides Rome into 29 walking tours. Each one takes about a day. Maybe you could do two per day in the summer. A few of the tours have a common theme, but most of them just cover a region of the city. The focus is on cultural/historical sites. There's very little about where to eat, sleep, or shop. The author is thorough and provides a lot of insight. The book reads as a folksy continuous narrative by a knowledgeable and perceptive guide. If you have a month in Rome, you could use this book to get a great tour. Many tourists would find this book difficult to use. Suppose you're in Rome for a few days, not nearly enough time to walk all 29 tours. There is no easy way to use this book to prioritize which sites to ... Read More: Rating:  - Serves a specific purposeIf you are looking for a guide to do EVERYTHING, you can probably do better. Certainly, if you only want to bring one book, this probably isn't it. However, I wouldn't dare go to Rome without it. Rome is an amazing city, where the smallest church may seem like nothing from the outside. But go in, open your Blue Guide and suddenly you realize that there's a Caravaggio or a Bernini on the premises. I don't use a guide such as this for planning. I use it for reference while I'm in the city. I'd have missed PLENTY without it. For the purpose it serves for me, it's the best there is! Rating:  - Don't ever go to Rome with only this guide!I just returned from a trip to Europe and spent several days in Rome... So this guide gets great reviews... True, the historical and cultural sections are fine. They didn't include any colour photographs, o. k., might be their style. But to sell a - not even cheap - guide that doesn't even have an underground map?! The maps in general aren't worth the paper they're printed on. You're certain to get lost in the city if you trust this guide. If you want to bother bringing this guide along a "real" guide, be my guest, but I, for one, expect more of a city guide. Rating: - One Of The Most Informative Guides To RomeI have been to Italy five times and I swear by the Blue Guides! I was lucky enough to get the Blue Guide Rome for Christmas, from a friend, before the first trip and I have taken that same copy every time since! From hotels to restaurants, from shopping to sightseeing, you'll find all of the important information you need to feel comfortable traveling to Rome, and more importantly, you'll feel confident as you take your daily excursions around the "eternal city". The only other book you ever need to travel around Rome is the Eyewitness Guide Rome. With those two guides, you have all the important information and pictures you'll ever need and more! I highly recommend it. Rating: - The Most Solid Guide To RomeIf you want to not just see but understand, appreciate and live the history which is Rome, this book is your guide. It might not provide the listing of cheap eating establishments or the best bars, but it is a travel guide and a reference book that you will continue to use long after you have left Rome. |
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