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Experience Rome

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• Unique experiences  to string together for an unforgettable trip
• Inspiring  full-colour travel photography  and  maps  throughout
• Pull-out Rome map  (included in print version)
• Highlights  and  neighbourhood   trip builders  to help tailor a trip to your personal needs and interests
• Insights from local experts  take you to the heart of the place - ancient relics, trattoria, piazzas, romance, gelato, the  dolce vita  lifestyle.
• Fresh perspectives  and  insider tips  to surprise you with things you hadn’t thought of, as well as fresh takes on the well-known sights
• Day trips  for easy escapes from the city
• Practical info and tips  on money, getting around on the metro, unique and local ways to stay, and responsible travel

Covers  Ancient Rome, Centro Storico, Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale, Vatican City, Borgo & Prati, Monti, Esquilino & San Lorenzo, Trastevere & Gianicolo, San Giovanni & Testaccio, Villa Borghese & Northern Rome, Southern Rome and more

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ISBN: 9781838694784

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: June 2022

Writers: Elisa Colarossi, Angela Corrias, Angelo Zinna

226 pages, 226pp color | Dimensions: 140mm × 180mm

Next edition due: April 2025

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Located upstairs from one of Italy’s most prestigious art schools, this gallery houses Milan’s collection of Old Masters, much of it ‘lifted’ from Venice…

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A stroll around the Quadrilatero d'Oro, the world's most famous shopping district, is a must even for those not sartorially inclined. The quaintly cobbled…

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Aiming to be a place of dialogue between people and world cultures, Milan's Museum of Culture, housed in the ex-Ansaldo factory, has an ambitious remit…

Triennale di Milano

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Palazzo Morando Costume Moda Immagine

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Chiesa di San Bernardino alle Ossa

This church dates from the 13th century, when its ossuary was used to bury plague victims from nearby San Barnaba hospital. It was rebuilt in rococo style…

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Milan’s most eccentric museum of 20th-century Italian painting is crowded in a 1930s apartment that still has the appearance of the haute-bourgeois home…

Orto Botanico

Maria Teresa had the towering gingko planted here in 1777, when she turned the former Jesuit orchard into an open-air lecture hall for budding botanists …

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This grand neo-Romanesque building houses Milan's natural history museum, complete with dinosaurs, fossils and the largest geology collection in Europe…

Arena Civica

The arena was Napoleon’s mini-colosseum, which he opened in flamboyant style with a chariot race in 1807. Built by Luigi Canonica, its design allowed it…

San Lorenzo Columns

The freestanding row of 16 Corinthian columns from Milan’s Mediolanum heyday were salvaged from a crumbling Roman residence and lined up here to form the…

Fuorisalone

Fringe fair to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile design and furniture fair, the Fuorisalone animates the entire city for one action-packed week,…

Pirelli HangarBicocca

This stunning, multipurpose exhibition space inhabits a huge former locomotive factory on the outskirts of Milan. Temporary exhibits include smartly…

Navigli Lombardi

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Mercatone dell'Antiquariato

This antiques market is the city's most scenic market. Set along a 400m stretch of the pretty Naviglio Grande, it has stalls from over 380 well-vetted…

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Lonely Planet Italy (Travel Guide) Paperback – February 16, 2016

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Italy is an extraordinary feast of heart-thumping, soul-stirring art, food and landscapes rivalled by few and coveted by millions.

Take in a gondolier’s sweet song while gliding past Venetian palaces, sample olives and wines as you traverse Tuscany’s storybook hills, or be humbled amid thousands of years of Roman history and art; all with your trusted travel companion.

Inside Lonely Planet  Italy  Travel Guide:

• Full-colour maps and images throughout. • Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests. • Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots. • Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices. • Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss. • Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - including history, art, literature, cinema, music, architecture, politics, cuisine, wine, customs. • Free, convenient pull-out Rome map (included in print version), plus over 137 colour maps.

Covers:  Rome, Turin, Piedmont, the Italian Riviera, Milan, the Lakes, Dolomites, Venice, Emilia-Romagna, Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Naples, Campania, Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia and more.

• Print length 976 pages
• Language English
• Publisher Lonely Planet
• Publication date February 16, 2016
• Dimensions 5.12 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches
• ISBN-10 1743216858
• ISBN-13 978-1743216859
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lonely Planet; 12th edition (February 16, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 976 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1743216858
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1743216859
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.72 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches
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