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CITY GUIDES
ROMA - ROME
| 2000 years of "dolce vita". The great city is getting set to celebrate
its jubilee. It's a city guaranteed to wear out anyone who wasn't born there (or who isn't
at least a naturalized citizen...). Tourists sway between feelings of love for the incredible ancient Roman city, renaissance and baroque, sensual and fantastic, and feelings of white-hot hatred for a city which defies all rules, schedules and norms of social conduct. Understandable perhaps, when one considers the number of governing bodies and administrators with a hand in running the city. Rome is an open-air museum, with its imperial forums, the Colosseum, the
Campodoglio, Castel St. Angelo and the Vatican museums. A city geared to life out of
doors, to a life lived amidst parks, ancient streets, historical stairways. Or, indeed, a
life underground, among the catacombs of San Sebastiano and San Callisto.
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| Altitude: 20 meters Pop.: 3.000.000 inhabitants International airport: Roma Fiumicino, 30 km. from the center and Roma Ciampino (charters) 15 km. from the center Postal Code: 00100 Country/area code: (+39) 06 APT information: via Parigi 11, tel. 06-4871270, 06-488991, fax 06-4819316 Tourist Assistance Center: via Parigi 5, tel. 06-48899228 Information center: Termini station, tel. 06-6786183; piazza Colonna 355, tel. 06-6786183 |
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