Knopf City Guide to Rome (Knopf City Guides)

These striking new guides are so appealing that you won't be able to put them down--even after you've stopped traveling. Slender and light, they fit into your purse or pocket. The traveler gets a rich flavor of a city through 600 vibrant color photographs while being guided through the 400 best hotels, restaurants, shops, and cultural sights.Each guide is divided into nine sections: Everything You Need to Know takes you into a given city and explains local transportation once you are there; Where to Stay lists 80 hotels with a wide range in price; Where to Eat includes everything from diners to four-star restaurants; After Dark shows you the clubs, discos, theaters, and concert halls; What to See guides the traveler from museums to cultural monuments and other places of interest; Further Afield provides 36 excursions just outside the city to historic houses, botanical gardens, zoos, or museums; and Where to Shop features 80 different boutiques, department stores, and markets. At the back are subway and bus routes and 10 double-page spreads of city Maps. Also included is the Business Reference Guide, with information for the business traveler on the city's stock exchange, major banks, business newspapers, television and radio stations, as well as a schedule of conventions.The Knopf City Guide to RomeThe richness and beauty of the city are revealed in extraordinary photographs of more than 100 historical and aesthetic sights, from the famous Baths of Caracalla to St. Peter's Basilica to the beautiful Capitoline Museum. A wide range of choices (in a wide range of prices) for lodging, dining, and entertainment includes the luxurious Eden and Lord Byron hotels and the postmodern Minerva Roma (in a refurbished 17th-century villa), as well as an endless variety of restaurants, from the cozy La Rosetta to the rooftop terrace of Les Etoiles and such outdoor favorites as Ai 3 Scalini da Rosonna e Matteo.