Please improve our Rome itinerary
Jan 21st, 2013, 07:57 AM
#21
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,254
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If you'd enjoy more of a "show", here's somewhere that only opened "properly" quite recently, to quickly become very popular...
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attract...ome_Lazio.html
http://www.palazzovalentini.it/index.php?lang=eng
Note that it's closed on Tuesdays, with only 1 or 2 tours in English each day!
Peter
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attract...ome_Lazio.html
http://www.palazzovalentini.it/index.php?lang=eng
Note that it's closed on Tuesdays, with only 1 or 2 tours in English each day!
Peter
Jan 21st, 2013, 09:37 AM
#22
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,154
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
annhig, thanks for your info about cafe on Capitoline Hill, in the Museum area.
Tarquin, thanks for providing a feedback about Plazza Spada. You have given another vote for exploring Rome's fountains, which we plan to do.
Peter, your link to the recently started show sounds excellent, and is probably just what we were looking for. Will explore booking it. Thanks. Am ruling out Plaza Spada.
Tarquin, thanks for providing a feedback about Plazza Spada. You have given another vote for exploring Rome's fountains, which we plan to do.
Peter, your link to the recently started show sounds excellent, and is probably just what we were looking for. Will explore booking it. Thanks. Am ruling out Plaza Spada.
Jan 21st, 2013, 05:29 PM
#25
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 4,591
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If you do hit Piazza Farnese, then hit Forno in Campo dei Fiori first for some pizza Bianca to snack on. Simple and delicious! Or a little farther away, Marco Roscioli for the pizza pomodoro!
Also, second the Eat Rome app (from Elizabeth Minchilli) and Rome for Foodies. Great suggestions and easy to use.
Also, second the Eat Rome app (from Elizabeth Minchilli) and Rome for Foodies. Great suggestions and easy to use.
Jan 22nd, 2013, 01:13 AM
#28
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 437
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If you are looking for a more substantial meal in Campo de Fiori I can recommend Virgilio - we had a wonderful meal there on our last night in Rome. (And please say "Hello" to Claudio - we didn't get back to the Trevi Fountain for our daughter to throw her third coin, but she does still speak of him fondly!)
Jan 22nd, 2013, 07:50 AM
#29
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,154
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
How can we forget gelato in Italy ? Have noted gelato spots all over Italy, where we plan to travel.
Will look up Vergilio restaurant,bendigo. We do hope to have one dinner around the Campo de'Fiori.
Will look up Vergilio restaurant,bendigo. We do hope to have one dinner around the Campo de'Fiori.
Jan 22nd, 2013, 09:42 AM
#30
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 248
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
<<but in the Forum somehow, whatever paper guide or map i have, i find it almost impossible to visualise how it would have looked. [Snip]
Doubtless on my next stay in Rome, in about 3 weeks time, we will be going to the forum again, so perhaps this time, I'll be able to make more sense of it.>>>
Perhaps this will help to bring it to life.
http://home.surewest.net/fifi/index50.html
And for other areas in Rome.
www.maquettes-historiques.net/P5.html
Also the 'Oxford Archaeological Guide - Rome' is the best detailed guide for the ruins.
That 1st URL for the Roman Forum is amazing.
I've been a major Roman Forum history buff for 17yrs.
And that guy's brief little bio doesn't do him justice.
His amazing accurate attention to very small details and placement of sites and objects had to require months of research into 19C excavation reports, ancient texts right-up to modern interpertations of the sites.
Although a couple of sites shouldn't be there in 179AD as they were gone by then, it's still cool that he added them for history's sake.
Have A Wonderful Trip to You and the OP!
Doubtless on my next stay in Rome, in about 3 weeks time, we will be going to the forum again, so perhaps this time, I'll be able to make more sense of it.>>>
Perhaps this will help to bring it to life.
http://home.surewest.net/fifi/index50.html
And for other areas in Rome.
www.maquettes-historiques.net/P5.html
Also the 'Oxford Archaeological Guide - Rome' is the best detailed guide for the ruins.
That 1st URL for the Roman Forum is amazing.
I've been a major Roman Forum history buff for 17yrs.
And that guy's brief little bio doesn't do him justice.
His amazing accurate attention to very small details and placement of sites and objects had to require months of research into 19C excavation reports, ancient texts right-up to modern interpertations of the sites.
Although a couple of sites shouldn't be there in 179AD as they were gone by then, it's still cool that he added them for history's sake.
Have A Wonderful Trip to You and the OP!
Jan 22nd, 2013, 11:07 AM
#31
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 96
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Oh my goodness, I know all of the information above is for indiancouple, but I am printing it all out to make our itinerary for our 10 day trip in Rome in Feb. Thank you all so much!
PS my daughter insists on two gelatos a day so I will probably have a great report to add after our visit! She is quite the expert.
PS my daughter insists on two gelatos a day so I will probably have a great report to add after our visit! She is quite the expert.
Jan 22nd, 2013, 12:38 PM
#32
Rostra - that's just brilliant. thank you so much.
I shall have to study it closely before we go but i can see that it'll certainly help to sort it all out in my head.
i will also look at the Oxford Archaeological guide - for someone with a general interest in such things, would you recommend it over the Blue guide?
I shall have to study it closely before we go but i can see that it'll certainly help to sort it all out in my head.
i will also look at the Oxford Archaeological guide - for someone with a general interest in such things, would you recommend it over the Blue guide?
Jan 22nd, 2013, 05:18 PM
#34
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 248
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
<<<i will also look at the Oxford Archaeological guide - for someone with a general interest in such things, would you recommend it over the Blue guide?>>>
If you could only take 1 guidebook for the museums and archaeological sites it should be the Blue Guide.
Although I much prefer their older smaller editions rather than their newer bigger heavier book plus I really don't need a full page color photo of some painting that I am looking right at.
But for the archaeological sites *only* (not museums) it's hands-down for the Oxford guide with *alot* more detailed info on the sites.
If you could only take 1 guidebook for the museums and archaeological sites it should be the Blue Guide.
Although I much prefer their older smaller editions rather than their newer bigger heavier book plus I really don't need a full page color photo of some painting that I am looking right at.
But for the archaeological sites *only* (not museums) it's hands-down for the Oxford guide with *alot* more detailed info on the sites.
Jan 22nd, 2013, 11:34 PM
#36
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,254
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
In using up some Amazon vouchers, I ordered the new editions of the Oxford and Blue guides back in October 2010.
Both offer lots of fascinating reading and, at home, for reference, you'd not regret having either but each weighs the equivalent of a Canon DSLR with its standard zoom....
Although we carted them with us on that year's trip, neither got out of our hotel and onto the streets - it was our faithful old maps and the Time Out guide that accompanied us, along with photocopies for sites we'd pre-decided to see!
Of the two, the first has 500+ pages that run through to c.600 AD, in the other there's 100 more however it does span all eras, and contains general tourist advice as well - much of which may duplicate what's in books you already own?
Perhaps depends on what interests you most, and how you'd use the book or books!
Peter
PS: If visiting Ischia, you'd be more than welcome to collect our earlier editions of both - as I can't bear to throw them away...
Both offer lots of fascinating reading and, at home, for reference, you'd not regret having either but each weighs the equivalent of a Canon DSLR with its standard zoom....
Although we carted them with us on that year's trip, neither got out of our hotel and onto the streets - it was our faithful old maps and the Time Out guide that accompanied us, along with photocopies for sites we'd pre-decided to see!
Of the two, the first has 500+ pages that run through to c.600 AD, in the other there's 100 more however it does span all eras, and contains general tourist advice as well - much of which may duplicate what's in books you already own?
Perhaps depends on what interests you most, and how you'd use the book or books!
Peter
PS: If visiting Ischia, you'd be more than welcome to collect our earlier editions of both - as I can't bear to throw them away...
Jan 23rd, 2013, 01:44 AM
#37
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 848
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Complimenti!
I live in Rome and I think your itinerary is excellent!
Personally I would have chosen a B&B in Monti or Campo de Fiori and not near the Vatican. That area is not very central and a bit boring especially in the evenings.
Hope you have a great time!
I live in Rome and I think your itinerary is excellent!
Personally I would have chosen a B&B in Monti or Campo de Fiori and not near the Vatican. That area is not very central and a bit boring especially in the evenings.
Hope you have a great time!
Jan 23rd, 2013, 02:19 AM
#38
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,154
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Hi carrom, coming from a resident of Rome, I think it is a high compliment indeed ! One always worries about planning an itinerary in a large unfamiliar city, as to whether one is leaving out something important, or adding too many things than what is manageable. Of course, since each person's interest are different, what is great for one person is boring for another.
I agree that a B&B in Campo de Fiori would have been more central. I went entirely by rankings in Tripadvisor, and finding something within our budget (of about E 100-120 per night). What we have booked is very highly rated on Tripadvisor reviews, costs only E 100 per night, and is not a far walk from the Centro Storico area.
Based on suggestions from this forum and this thread, I have eliminated Palazza Spada, and the Time Elevator, and substituted the latter with Palazzo Valentini. Have also added lots of Roman fountains, based on the excellent blog (link provided by goldenautumn). Have taken note of various other cafes, restaurants near places of interest. Have also added Santa Maria at Trastevere to the list.
Basically, we will focus more on the plazas, fountains and architecture of Rome (aside from the mandatory Colosseum, Romun Forum, Palantino, Pantheon and Vatican). I think that is where our interest lie, and lesser so in the countless churches and museums of Rome (which I am sure are also stunning, but not quite our cup of tea).
I agree that a B&B in Campo de Fiori would have been more central. I went entirely by rankings in Tripadvisor, and finding something within our budget (of about E 100-120 per night). What we have booked is very highly rated on Tripadvisor reviews, costs only E 100 per night, and is not a far walk from the Centro Storico area.
Based on suggestions from this forum and this thread, I have eliminated Palazza Spada, and the Time Elevator, and substituted the latter with Palazzo Valentini. Have also added lots of Roman fountains, based on the excellent blog (link provided by goldenautumn). Have taken note of various other cafes, restaurants near places of interest. Have also added Santa Maria at Trastevere to the list.
Basically, we will focus more on the plazas, fountains and architecture of Rome (aside from the mandatory Colosseum, Romun Forum, Palantino, Pantheon and Vatican). I think that is where our interest lie, and lesser so in the countless churches and museums of Rome (which I am sure are also stunning, but not quite our cup of tea).
Jan 23rd, 2013, 02:48 AM
#39
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 1,254
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
My collection's up to about 75 now....
http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/r_founts
Regretably, it will require a much cheaper reprint before I can afford this definitive (obsessive?) guide:
http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Fountain...2000+fountains
Sections of that can be seen on GoogleBooks:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h...page&q&f=false
But if ever there was a candidate for release as an e-book, it's got to be that? 900+ pages, at 12" x 10" !
Peter
http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/r_founts
Regretably, it will require a much cheaper reprint before I can afford this definitive (obsessive?) guide:
http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Fountain...2000+fountains
Sections of that can be seen on GoogleBooks:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h...page&q&f=false
But if ever there was a candidate for release as an e-book, it's got to be that? 900+ pages, at 12" x 10" !
Peter
Jan 23rd, 2013, 03:24 AM
#40
PS: If visiting Ischia, you'd be more than welcome to collect our earlier editions of both - as I can't bear to throw them away...>>
Peter, if only! i've probably mentioned that my italian teacher, who is coming to Rome with us, is from Ischia, and i've definitely got it on my list, but not before we go to Rome. i have read [amazon review I think] that the last version of the Blue guide was better than the current one, and I'm half minded to try to get that instead. I think it would be a better fit for my interests that the archaeological guide, which is probably a bit too specialist for me.
the other guides I've got are very general, and what I want is one where if I go into a random church, for example, or come across a museum I don't know about, it's going to tell me what to look at, which I think is really what the Blue guide does. or have i got that wrong?
Peter, if only! i've probably mentioned that my italian teacher, who is coming to Rome with us, is from Ischia, and i've definitely got it on my list, but not before we go to Rome. i have read [amazon review I think] that the last version of the Blue guide was better than the current one, and I'm half minded to try to get that instead. I think it would be a better fit for my interests that the archaeological guide, which is probably a bit too specialist for me.
the other guides I've got are very general, and what I want is one where if I go into a random church, for example, or come across a museum I don't know about, it's going to tell me what to look at, which I think is really what the Blue guide does. or have i got that wrong?
