Lonely Planet Condensed Rome

This informative and savvy guide captures the best that Rome offers in a practical, easy to use format. With opinionated reviews, essential travel tips and detailed fold-out maps, Rome Condensed has all the information the discerning visitor needs - for a day or a week, for business or for pleasure.

• shows how to order a caffè macchiato with confidence and mangiare bene in the best cafes and restaurants
• helps you navigate the way from the Spanish Steps to the Vatican like a Roman
• reviews only the coolest places to experience la dolce vita
• shopping secrets shared from to-die-for big names to tell-your-friends bargains

"Rome Condensed" contains information on the city’s key highlights, facts and history, sights and activities, the best shopping, eating, entertainment and accommodations. The guide also has walking tours complete with full color maps especially designed for the independent traveler: amble through the Villa Borghese, Rome’s most popular park; take a mosaic and monument meander and see such grand monuments as the Roman Forum and the Colosseum; or stroll along the Appia Antica, known to ancient Romans as the regina viarum (queen of roads).Not too compact to realize that Rome is a city for the senses, "Rome Condensed" also gives hearty cultural tidbits to enjoy dolce vita to the fullest. Get your cultural fill, but make sure to leave time for more hedonistic concerns: eat till you can eat no more, and get drunk on wine, architecture and sunshine.