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A Special Trip To Rome

To describe all the architectural beauties of Rome, probably a week wouldn’t be enough. Rome is full of history, it was founded back to 753 b. C. and it carried out a leading role for Italy but also for Europe during its almost three thousand years of history (first settlements date back to 10th century b. C.).

A tour of the city, even if just for a few days, isn’t complete without visiting the ‘Fontana di Trevi’, ‘Piazza di Spagna’, the Coliseum, the Roman Forum and so on, just to say the first names that come to mind, but we could go on for hours. To visit monuments and churches, besides reading a travel guide, that could easily be not updated and mentioning last year opening hours, it’s very useful to look up in the websites of the places that you want to visit. There you can surely find updated opening hours besides a lot of information about the history and the description of these places.

Also Roman cuisine is famous worldwide, tourists come from all over the world not just for its architectural beauties, but especially to try some typical dishes of roman tradition. Who wants to enjoy some typical flavors really has a lot of choices, like the abbacchio, spaghetti all’amatriciana, carbonara, coda alla vaccinara.

There are plenty of restaurants where you can taste these delicacies and you will really be spoilt by choice.
There are many city zones rich with restaurants and nightlife, as for example the area of Trastevere, with its dozens of restaurants and pubs full of young people and tourists from everywhere, or the area of Campo de’ Fiori, a very central area with a lot of pubs and restaurants, Testaccio, where there are many discos and nightclubs, or San Lorenzo, close to the Sapienza University Town, where students meet late at night, on the streets or in one of the numerous pubs or clubs.
As it often happens in Latin countries, in Rome dinner time is quite late, so also nightlife starts later and often goes on for the whole night.

What you absolutely must do is at least one dinner in one typical roman tavern, where from the wine to the very good and cheap food, to the happy and friendly environment, you will try the real feeling of living in the roman capital.
In Rome there is a wide choice of hotels, b&b, hostels, rooms for rent in convents. Therefore there is a wide range of accommodation solutions to suit every budget, you just have to choose the area where you want to spend the night and then finding and booking your favorite accommodation, thank to the online booking system that almost all the accommodation structures now offer to the tourist.
The choice of the city area is very personal, according to the kind of journey you are planning to do. For example, people who love nightlife should stay in the area of Trastevere, the core de’ Roma (the heart of Rome), with all the restaurants and clubs that are open until very late in the night. For who wants to reach the places to see without losing time, the ideal thing is to book a hotel near Termini station.

To move around the city, the advice is to use public transportations, the metro and all the bus lines cover the whole city territory, besides there are some types of season tickets that last some days or one week and are very useful, this way you just have to obliterate the ticket once and then you can jump on every kind of public transportations.
Rome can be the ideal destination for a few days journey, for an historic trip but also for a romantic week-end, with all its characteristic views, or also for a week-end at the discovery of the traditional flavors, with all its taverns where you can taste delicacies at very reasonable prices.

By: Michele De Capitani

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By Michele De Capitani with support from housing in Rome for any information, please visit real estate Rome or visit trip to Rome.

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You have decided on a cruise to Italy, you have chosen your cruise line now you must contemplate what shore excursions your want to take advantage of. Many cruise lines will offer shore excursions as well as many private companies as well. In the case of the private companies, you will need to give them the name of the ship you will be arriving on as well as the arrival and departure dates. They also need to know how many will be in your party.

Often with these private companies, you have the option of some flexibility as to what you get to see. The cruise ships often have their own excursions but they are pre planned and must stick to schedule. In addition, usually these groups are quite large.

For Italy there are private excursions on a daily bases from the ports of Naples, Civitavecchia, Livorno, Venice and Sicily. You may want to pick out one or two of your favorites then research more as to what you would get to see if you were to choose one of this Italy shore excursions.

To give you an example lets assume that you would enjoy a tour of Venice. Here you may be subjected to an extensive but exclusive walking tour. The highlights would be the churches, museums and monuments of importance. To compliment this tour you may have the advantage of taking some private boat rides on the Grand Canal. You would not want to miss out see the famous glass blowing techniques that Venice is famous for. Then there is Burano, known for its cheery houses and exquisite lace making.

Whenever you are contemplating a sight seeing tour at a port you should really do some research as to what are the significant aspect of that particular place. If these are not slated to be on your tour then you may want to re consider. After all, you want to see things that are famous; this is part of the expectations of your trip.

In Venus, you may want to see Saint Marks Square as well as the Doge’s Palace. Then if you were an art lover, there would be the Academia Galleries. For those who are found of majestic old churches the Frari Church and The Sculoa di San Rocco would be significant to you. The list could just go on and on for Venus. There is just so much to see that it would be impossible to get it all in with one tour.

The same applies for other ports in Italy. It will be difficult for you to decide your favorites because there is just so much to see and do, and not enough time to do it all. Then there is always next time, because no doubt you will want to cruise Europe again and who knows maybe return to Italy.

The important thing to remember is to research your destinations and take your time in planning your sight seeing tours. If possible, at least try to go on one shore excursion, as its part of what makes up the excitement of being on a cruise.

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