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Rome in Four Days
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- Enrico Massetti
- Pubblicato:
- Oct 17, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781312601581
- Formato:
- Libro
Descrizione
There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions for you to use during your visit.
The guide is ideal for use on your smart phone or your tablet, it contain active links to the web sites of train and air travel companies, so you can with a click from the guide check the latest schedule and even buy the tickets.
It has also listing of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at walking distance from the location where lunch or dinner are planned.
There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide.
Informazioni sul libro
Rome in Four Days
Descrizione
There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions for you to use during your visit.
The guide is ideal for use on your smart phone or your tablet, it contain active links to the web sites of train and air travel companies, so you can with a click from the guide check the latest schedule and even buy the tickets.
It has also listing of many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are at walking distance from the location where lunch or dinner are planned.
There are active links to the review pages, you can use them if you have an active Internet connection, but, if you don’t, you have the basic information ready: the name, address and telephone number are included in the guide.
- Editore:
- Enrico Massetti
- Pubblicato:
- Oct 17, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781312601581
- Formato:
- Libro
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Rome in Four Days - Enrico Massetti
Rome in Four Days
Enrico Massetti
Rome in Four Days
Enrico Massetti
Copyright Enrico Massetti 2014
Published by Enrico Massetti at Smashwords
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ISBN: 978-1-312-60158-1
second edition
Rome in four days, tasks needed to be done
Having exactly 4 days, you must be willing to work hard to experience as much of Rome as possible.
You can bypass the lines if buy your tickets:
• through: http://www.coopculture.it/en/colosseo-e-shop.cfm, the official seller before leaving home:
• at the forum or palatine hill entrance.
• buy the romapass.
• All three of the above options will allow you to bypass the lines into the Coliseum.
• To bypass the lines to the Vatican museums you can pre-purchase the tickets directly through the Vatican website: http://biglietteriamusei.vatican.va/musei/tickets/do?weblang=en.
You should also make hotel reservations in advance.
If you plan to take the bus from Fiumicino Airport to the Termini Station, make advance reservations to guarantee a seat.
Rome in 4 days – Day 1.
Morning
Ancient Rome:
A - Colosseum
B - Roman Forum,
C - Piazza del Campidoglio
D - Pantheon.
Afternoon
Walk through the historical centre:
E - Piazza Navona,
F - Trevi Fountain,
G - Piazza di Spagna.
Suggestion: The late afternoon could be the right time to go on a panoramic drive on the double-decker buses of the Atac 110 line that makes several stops in the center.
A – Colosseum
Colosseum in Rome
The Coliseum owes its name to a colossal bronze statue, representing the Emperor Nero, more than 35 m. tall, that used to stand in this area. A symbol of Rome worldwide, the Coliseum was built by the emperors of the Flavian dynasty between 72-80 A.D., on the site once occupied by an artificial lake belonging to the magnificent Domus Aurea, a compound of buildings and gardens built by Nero now in ruins but with beautiful decorations which inspired Renaissance painters.
As much as 100,000 cubic meters of travertine from the Tivoli quarries were used to build this amphitheater, the largest ever built during the Roman Empire.
Colosseum with hypogeum
The Coliseum could hold more than 70,000 spectators who could watch the fights between gladiators, the hunting of animals and, at the very beginning, the naumachias: naval battles that took place in the arena that was flooded.
The architect who designed the Coliseum is said to have been thrown alive to the wild beasts as a reward for his own work
, thus inaugurating the long story of blood and cruelties of the building he himself had conceived.
In the Middle Ages the Coliseum was transformed into a fortress. Later on, stripped of its structures, it became in turn a quarry for building materials and finally the seat of hospitals, fraternities and craft guilds. It was only towards the middle of the 18th century, that Pope Benedict XIV had it decreed a sacred site
, and the plunder and devastation was
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