Rome Guide

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Rome: The Eternal City…and for those who have visited her, unquestionably the most magnificent city in the world. Like the memory of a lost love, she will haunt you, stealing your senses one by one and hastening your return. For those who have not yet experienced her magic, the thrill awaits…

Our Rome guide is not yet another tourist information source. We wrote for you articles to give you insight on Rome and Italy. On the other hand, we prepared for you specific, practical, mostly unobtainable Rome information and tips. Enjoy!

Feature articles:

PRESENTATION OF THE SIGHTS:

  1. Detailed Rome map 
  2. ROME QUARTERS (you will find pages presenting the streets in each quarter presentation)
Near Rome:

ESSENTIAL ROME INFORMATION

  1. Current season events
  2. Art Galleries
  3. Museums
  4. Restaurant guide
  5. Daily excursions from Rome
  6. Ice cream, cafe' bars and pastry shops
  7. Food: groceries and veg markets
  8. Parking in Rome
  9. Papal audiences
  10. English speaking medical emergency, hospitals, doctors, dentists
  11. Arrival and departures: airports
  12. Arrival and departures: train stations
  13. Airline companies
  14. Important practical differences between Anglo-American countries and Italy
  15. What you should avoid in Rome (and in Italy)
Rome guide, Rome map, Rome tourist information, Rome events, by Roman Homes
Rome's official colours (also of the
football team) are yellow and red

Recommended sites:

Weather in Rome: current and forecast

Italian Trains Timetable and especially Trenitalia, allowing you to book online.
Ticket costs provided, for reference.

www.atac.roma.it : Rome public transport system information. You can enter an address and a destination and the system then provides information, and a map, explaining what bus taking and at which stop getting off. It is very useful, particularly for areas which are not at walking distance.  

 

Even Rome's priests can't help using the "telefonino"
(cell phone) all the time!

RESERVATIONS

  1. Borghese Museum phone reservation
  2. Nero's Domus Aurea phone reservation
  3. Florence (Firenze): Galleria degli Uffizi phone reservation from Rome
  4. Ticket Agencies

ROME APARTMENT RENTALS

- Rome apartments by location and type
- All Rome apartments and villas listings
- Rome apartments search engine and automated inquiry form
- Personal inquiry page
- Arrival, check-in, departure from your vacation property

SERVICES
  1. ROME CAR SERVICE (Roman Homes customers only)
  2. Exchange, bank regulations, paying in Italy
  3. Telephone
  4. Post Office
  5. Public transport, taxi
  6. Internet Points
  7. Car and Scooter rental
  8. Office, secretary, telephone answering service, postal service, fax service, conference room, legal address
  9. Mailboxes, UPS and fast mail, urgent money wiring
  10. Walking tours
  11. Religious services in English
  12. Baby sitter
  13. English language films and theatres
  14. Additional housekeeping (Roman Homes customers only)
The Eternal City: founded with the contribution of a she-wolf, and currently dominated by stray cats
 

However, although planning your vacation in Rome will be useful, we advise you to "go with the flow in Rome", for a number of reasons:

- when you will be on site simple things like a bus or taxi strike, a cranky taxi driver, a sudden museum employees strike, a rainy day (making motor traffic get crazier than it already is), or possibly the beatification of a German monk, a political rally (Italians are world master for a number of these things), or possibly that you are tired or hungry during the hard work of visiting the world-record town regarding sights will make the difference. No one was able to visit Rome with a perfect plan without getting frustrated

- there are 1000s and 1000s sights, so the best thing to do is to visit them without getting too stressed, and ... leave the rest for the next visit.

- also leisure time in Rome is important (restaurants, evening promenades, shopping etc.) and you would not enjoy them if at the end of the day you will be over-stressed visiting the sights.

Rome tourist guide

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