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• Rome (Lonely Planet City Guide)

  Duncan Garwood, Abigail Hole

  
  
   

• Rome (Eyewitness Travel Guide)

  
  
   

• Rome (Eyewitness Pocket Maps and Guides)

  
  
   

• Rome (Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guide)

  Reid Bramblett, Jeffrey Kennedy

  
  
   

• Rome (Oxford Archaeological Guides)

  Amanda Claridge

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Rome (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

  Martin Dunford

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide Map Rome (Rough Guide Map)

  
  
   

• "Time Out" Rome (Time Out Rome)

  Time Out Guides Ltd

  
  As Aurelio Zen's creator Michael Dibdin says in his introduction to Time Out Rome, the best way to know the city is to do nothing. He goes on to say he means don't fret with a schedule but simply absorb the history, the culture and the contemporary sense of its citizens. This guide follows with clever, sometimes curious, commentary from the short history of the city's ups and downs to vignettes of the oddities that make it endearing. It doesn't even pretend to offer a step-by- step guide of the "if its elevenses, it must be the Coliseum"-style guide book. Lists of historical and architectural sights are complete, nonetheless.

  A few hours of chaos--nonsensical museum hours, relentless building works and changing venues--and it hits home. Fellini made documentaries, Dibdin reminds the traveller. The guide mimics its subject, jumping around when it feels the urge but giving solid information on the basics. There's a better than usual list of Italian phrases for food, money, accommodation and shopping. And a handy column under the heading "female self-defence." But, not to deny the chance at romance, it also includes the phrase "mi piacerebbe tanto fare un giro con Lei in Vespa"--"I'd love to go for a spin on your Vespa." Or, as this book suggests, be indulgent with Rome, it will love you for it. --Kathleen Buckley

  
   

• Rome (AA Spiral Guides)

  Tim Jepson

  
  
   

• City Secrets: Rome (City Secrets)

  
  The appeal of the City Secrets series is truly novel. Instead of the customary (and often rather bland) comments on the points of interest and topography of Rome, this fascinating volume presents sharply observed views from some of the world's most important artists, archaeologists, architects and writers, with historians adding their own layer of expertise. The Sistine Chapel, for instance, is covered in fascinating paragraphs by a rare bookseller, a historical specialist, the architect Richard Meier, and others. Each gives individual insights into the subject. The watering holes garner an equally lively mix of opinions: the bar Sant'Eustachio is described as serving a really great granita di caffi (coffee-flavoured ice) and is fun to hang around in to watch carabinieri and parliamentarians, while another writer informs us that this is the place to buy the world's best cappuccino--and why buying a cup to display on the shelf at home is, to the hardcore, the ultimate status symbol! Time and again, this iconoclastic approach throws up the sharpest of insights: architect Robert Livesey, for instance, describes a Bernini stoup for holy water as demonstrating a voluptuous use of marble, while the antique shops of the Via Giulia are recommended by historian Jayne Merkel as the most enticing collection of shops she has ever seen, en masse, anywhere.

  The thinking behind this pocket-sized series is clear: City Secrets: Rome will be a highly attractive adjunct to whatever guidebooks you may take to Rome. The pick-and-mix approach is appealing: if you're not tempted by one voice, simply move on to the next. Few will notice that the maps on double pages lose detail in the middle, or the preponderance of American voices. The high production standards and variety of views available make City Secrets: Rome a highly cherishable little book. --Barry Forshaw

  
   

• Rome "Wallpaper*" City Guide ("Wallpaper*" City Guides)

  Wallpaper* Magazine

  
  
   

• Rome (AA CityPack Guides) (AA CityPack Guides)

  AA Publishing

  
  
   

• Rome: The Biography of a City

  Christopher Hibbert

  
  
   

• The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide

  Anthony Majanlahti

  
  
   

• Traveller's Guide to the Ancient World: Rome: Everything You Need to Know to Do as the Romans Do (Traveller's Guide to the Ancient World): Everything You ... Do (Traveller's Guide to the Ancient World)

  Ray Laurence

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to Rome

  Martin Dunford

  
  
   

• Rome (AA Key Guide) (AA Key Guides Series)

  AA Publishing

  
  
   

• Rome (Popout Map)

  Compass Maps

  
  
   

• The Companion Guide to Rome (Companion Guides)

  Georgina Masson

  
  
   

• Rome (DK Eyewitness Travel Guides)