Insight City Guide Rome (Book & Restaurant Guide) [Paperback]

Brian Bell (Author)

Book Description

Series: City Guide | Publication Date: September 1, 2004

This 258-page guidebook to Rome presents the city's highlights in a comprehensive but portable format, with the following key features: The Best of Rome: overview of vital information for visitors, including money- and time-saving tips and the most family-oriented attractions. Places: district-by-district guide, with top attractions highlighted and cross-referenced with detailed local maps. Restaurant guide: a pull-out, pocket-size "Z" map, with review listings of recommended restaurants and bars. Photo Features: magazine-style full-colour features on some of the city's most famous sights, including museums and galleries. Essay Features: incisive essays on Rome's history, people and culture. Travel Tips: practical listings, covering Accommodation, Entertainment, Transport and more. Street Atlas: colour maps of main streets, with grid-referenced index.

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INSIGHT CITY GUIDES are the next generation in travel guides. Lively essays by local writers, hundreds of full-color photos, dozens of maps, a user-friendly format, and expert advice on the not-to-be-missed attractions all come together in the most portable, affordable, comprehensive travel guide on the market. KEY FEATURES *Magazine-style instant orientation such as money-saving tips, activities for kids, free attractions, website addresses, and insider advice *Expert evaluations of the must-see sites illustrated with 4-color, full-bleed photos and an emphasis on practical information *A bonus take-it-with-you mini restaurant guide and city map *An 8-12 page street atlas and street listings at the back of the guide provides a grid-referenced index to local streets *Special two-page spreads spotlight particular topics of interest, such as museums and religious buildings, with captioned photos and floor plans *Appropriate destinations include a detailed map of the rail lines *Comfortable, portable format and rounded spine is ideal for people on the go

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Insight Guides (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9814137561
• ISBN-13: 978-9814137560
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,041,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you like textbooks, you'll like this book., May 13, 2006

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This review is from: Insight City Guide Rome (Book & Restaurant Guide) (Paperback)

If you are prepared to invest a lot of time into your guidebook, there is a lot of information contained within Insight's Rome City Guide. It has detailed essays and beautiful photographs of 15 main areas within Rome. That's it for the positive.

Overall, I found the book boring and difficult to use. The key problems are:
1. The good information is buried. It is not the sort of book you can pick up, jump to a section, and get good information. It will take you a while to find what you are looking for, and then you have to read a lot of words.

2. The writing style is very dry - similar to a textbook. All too often when reading this guidebook I drifted off and would lose my place on the page.

3. The maps are difficult to use and hard to read. I never got my bearing of Rome until I bought another book.

I gave up on this book after a while and went and got the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Rome. The maps are better and it's easier to read. In fact, the DK guides are an absolute pleasure to read.