City Walks: Rome: 50 Adventures on Foot [Cards]

Martha Fay (Author), Bart Wright (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 2006 | Series: City Walks

The ultimate travel accessory for wanderers who want to experience Rome like a nativeon foot! Perfect for a first-time visitor or those who just want to discover new terrain, City Walks: Rome offers an intimate view of the city. Each card in this deck outlines a self-guided walking adventure, with a detailed map on one side and insider information on the other. Travelers can pick any card and start exploring Rome!

Product Details

• Cards: 50 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (March 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811851273
• ISBN-13: 978-0811851275
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 4.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > Travel > Europe > Italy > Rome
  • #63 in Books > Travel > Reference & Tips > Guidebooks

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best way to see Rome, May 13, 2007

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J. Brawley "JKB" (Stamford CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: City Walks: Rome: 50 Adventures on Foot (Cards)

We recently spent 4 days in Rome, staying in a wonderful apartment we found on the internet. While we had a number of tour books and information we downloaded from the internet, we mostly used our City Walks: Rome cards to organize and follow a daily walking tour. Rome is quite compact and you can walk to most sites, or take a quick cab ride if pressed for time. We often did two or even three walking tour cards in one day. They are clear and useful while walking from one point to another, and if you work it well, you can start one where another ends. We stayed near Piazza Navona, which we found very convenient for The Villa Borghese, The Vatican, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, the Coliseum, The Spanish Steps and some of our favorite restaurants. We have now given these cards to several of our friends that where going to Rome, and they loved them as well.

22 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good but ...., June 23, 2006

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Goldman - See all my reviews

This review is from: City Walks: Rome: 50 Adventures on Foot (Cards)

A splendid concept: Fifty 6.5 x 3.75 hard cards, each with a little map on one side, and on the other descriptions of the area's sites, even with dining suggestions. Most guides lack adequate maps; this one provides mapping with a vengeance.

Why then only four stars? The Porta Maggiore, Santa Croce, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, San Paolo fuori le Mura, The Borghese Gallery, the Villa Giulia, and The Vatican (Museums and San Pietro) are omitted. Well, I suppose something had to be left out, but why the Vatican? Every schoolboy knows the two poles between which Rome revolves are the Forum and the Vatican. If there's a card for those born to shop (#4, The Via Condotti), then why not one for Christians? I had suspected at first Cultural Marxist PC crime, yet the author's laudatory use of B.C. and A.D. suggests otherwise. Yet A.D. comes before the year, thank you, not after.

There are factual errors that a good editor should have caught; e.g., The Aurelian Walls were built after A.D. 270, not 270 B.C. The site descriptions are very brief, needing as they do to fit on the back of a card. So pilgrims (religious, historical, aesthetic, gustatory) would need another guide for the detail. _The Blue Guide Rome_ in its latest edition, _The Oxford Archeological Guide to Rome_, and _The Companion Guide to Rome_ (A.D. 2003 ed.) would serve all purposes except for shopping, eating, and sleeping.

For those who wish not to lug a book, a commendable job.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Walking tours with cards, July 12, 2008

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Richard Sanders (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: City Walks: Rome: 50 Adventures on Foot (Cards)

I didn't find the cards too useful for information. They do provide a simple route to follow though which is good. Rome has so much to see and these cards provide some info but not enough for a repeat visitor looking for more to discover. The cards would be easy to carry and also you can combine more than one card to allow a longer walking tour of an area.