DESTINATION ROME

Welcome to the Destination Rome pages on blueguides.com.  While no substitute for a good guide book, they should constitute a starting point to access Blue Guides and other information to help you plan your trip:

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• Key sights: there is an enormous wealth of things to visit in Rome, here are a couple of ideas to help you plan your day.  Then, armed with a good guide book, you can always add things and change your plans as you go along . . .

• Where to stay: Blue Guides Recommended accommodation in Rome.

• Where and what to eat: some background on Roman cooking and Blue Guides Recommended restaurants.

• What to buy, where.  Some shopping ideas taken from art/shop/eat Rome, our small-format city guide.

•  The history of Rome: 20 key dates in Rome's past to understand the city, 10 top popes and a handful of emperors.

• View updates, comments and reader travel blogs on Rome on the Blue Guides' discussion pages »

• Other Rome information: some useful links to key websites.

And you can download and print off our one page "Rome BG10": ten suggested sites to visit, our ten best recommended hotels and restaurants, the ten key dates.

We also have a map of Rome, so you can see where our recommended hotels and restaurants are in relation to one another and to the main sights.  Access Blue Guides' map here »