Rome Angels and Demons tour
 

Can anyone make a recommendation for an "Angels and Demons" tour in Rome? We think it might be a fun thing to do??

Our public library had a copy of an illustrated A&D edition which I borrowed before our 2006 trip. It included beautiful maps of the important sites so we were able to do our own tour, working from photocopies.
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And it was a fun thing to do!

Hi,

I cannot recommend it yet because I haven't taken it, but the one by viator seems to be a good bet, at least if you can believe the reviews. I myself will be taking it on Aug 2nd.

Regards,
Aline

We took the tour in May, 2010 and I found it to be a bit cheesy. Not the sites from the movie, but in between seeing each site, the young American college student/tourguide very dramatically recapped the novel and set us up for the next scene. I actually felt embarrassed for him. As we were all gathered on the steps of the Santa Maria del Popolo church at the beginning of the tour and listening to the young man start his theatrics, a couple remarked "this is crap" and actually left before the tour started. And they had already purchased their tickets.

Oh, and here's the link for the tour we took: http://www.angelsanddemons.it/default.aspx

Be advised that it is a lot of walking, but then you are also bussed a short portion of the tour.

You don't have to pay to visit the locations. Also, dear Mr. Brown in this first novel used, oh shall I say, "poetic license" with aspects. He puts Santa Maria Vittoria in Piazza Barberini. OOPS, it's a few blocks away. Actually, when I read the book, long before the Da Vinci Code, I wondered if Brown had ever actually been in Rome prior to A&D.

Essentially every location is on a standard "to do" list of places to see. If you follow the car route, well, that doesn't make sense either as it kind of goes in the wrong directions to get from one location to the next.

If you really want to do it, simply read the book, mark out the locations on a city map of Rome and take the bus or metro between sites. Oh, and you'll probably want to get a real authoritarian text on the locations.

The absolute best in that regards would be Father Joseph Tylenda's book "Pilgrim's Guide to Rome's Principal Churches" published by Angelus Press.

dave