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the Vatican, Virtual Tours, Prints and Paintings...
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Rome's Coliseum from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
For more on Rome, consult this Rome Destination Guide. The service also offers wonderful Destination guides for hundreds of Italian cities, including:
TravelNow.com offers a wonderful search engine for hotels, B&Bs, flights, car rentals, and not just for Italy. Please let me know if you enjoy their service or not! Click on your country for their local language/currency service.
Rome's monument to Vittorio Emanuele with the Campidoglio to the right, from space, courtesy of GoogleEarth
Castel Sant'Angelo from space, courtesy of GoogleEarth
The Vatican's Church of Saint Peter from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
St. Peter's Square. Visit my Paintings of Rome page for more images of beautiful paintings of Rome.
Isola Tiberina. Painting by Ettore Roesler Franz from the late 19th century.
Isola Tiberina. Painting by Ettore Roesler Franz from the late 19th century.
Some Aerial Views of Rome, for more aerial views of Italy, see my Photo Tours of Italy page.
An aerial view of the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
An aerial view of Piazza Navona in Rome.
Free Art Prints
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Posters and Prints of Rome to Buy
IntroductionRome is called the Eternal City. It is the the center of government for modern day Italy, and was the same for the ancient Roman empire. The citizens of Rome are proud of their heritage. Other Italians make fun of the Roman pride, and tease that the city was better run in ancient times than it is today. Certainly the water supply was more abundant!
Virtual Tours and Real ToursGoogle offers a virtual tour of ancient Rome using a Gallery layer in their Google Earth program. Here's a YouTube video explaining it and offering a download (free) at the end.
If you've never been to Rome, or want to relive your visit, click on the logo below to go on a virtual tour of the city.
Like all large cities, Rome's neighborhoods have slightly different characteristics reflecting their history, so when in Rome, it's a good idea to divide your wanderings between the various districts. A detailed, clickable map of Rome can help in your planning.
Click on the map image to go to a detailed, clickable, enlargeable map of Rome online. But for a quick overview of Rome's monuments, this listing is excellent. To plan a tour of the Jewish history in Rome, which boasts one of the oldest continuous Jewish settlements in Europe and the world, click here to view a virtual tour. This online guide is one of the classic ones for planning your wanderings: Fodors. They offer information on cafes, bars, restaurants, accommodation, shops and services.
The Spanish Steps in Rome, leading to the Villa Borghese and gardens This site offers opening times and prices of all the major monuments, churches, and museums in Rome. Click here or on the logo to visit the site. They link to information on other Italian cities, too.
The Vatican CityRome is also the home of the Pope, the head of the Catholic church, and home to the central administration of the Catholic church, both housed in the Vatican City. The Vatican City is considered a separate state within Italy, thus the famous Vatican postage stamps purchased for hundreds of thousands of tourists' postcards sent home from there every year.
Inside St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. Believe it or not, the Vatican has a website. It is very informative, especially if you're planning to visit the Vatican museums. Click on the logo to go to the site.
Ancient RomeIf you're fascinated with ancient Rome, there are the ruins, of course, and also many museum exhibits to explain what you are seeing and what life in ancient Rome used to be like. There is also a site that tells you what daily life in ancient Rome was like.
A view of part of the Roman Forum ruins. I've a page comparing life in ancient Rome to life today in Italy. It has many links to sites that can offer a background to life in ancient Rome.
Hotels, Apts, StoriesThe Roman Homes site offers personal service with luxury apartments, and villas with pools, that they personally manage. They also have helpful maps and lots of images to help you see just where you'll be staying in Rome if you rent via them. They also offer an informative, free, online guide to Rome.
This site is interesting for their complete listing of hotels in Rome. They link to other pages on Florence and Milan, and offer apartment listings too. Click on the logo to visit the site.
Site visitor, Rome Rents, offers a selection of quality, centrally located apartments on short and long term in the historic center of Rome. All the apartments are in central Rome close to all the main sights. The apartments are fully furnished and bed and bath linen provided, as well as all kitchenware.
One tourist couple have put together some wonderful web pages describing their visit to Rome. Be sure to check out their other pages on other Italian cities, too. For other stories about Rome, click here or on the Anecdotage site logo to see their collection.
Posters and Prints to BuyIf you want to purchase posters and prints of Rome, the top on-line sellers the Art.com site and AllPosters.com have beautiful selections, some of which you can see in the left column of this page.
Rome Posters and Prints from Art.com
Free Art PrintsI've created some free art prints of Rome you can download and print out on a color printer. Small versions of the Rome prints appear in the left column of this page. You can click on one of them, or here, to link to the gallery page that has all the instructions you need. From the gallery page, you can visit the other five galleries of prints or click on the links below. Farm - 5 images Florence - 4 images Rome - 6 images Sunflower - 4 images Venice - 6 images Village - 5 images
Books About RomeIf you'd like to read more about Rome before your trip, or checkout the printed guidebooks, you can use this Search tool to see what's available from Amazon.com, what people say about the books, and what they cost. Just enter 'Books' in the 'Search' field, and 'Rome Italy' (for example, or you could put 'Vatican' or 'Rome Italy camping'...). Then click on the 'Go' button to see the resulting list.
Here are some selections I've made of books, DVDs, CDs and a game.
Here are two 'literary guides' to Rome, combining descriptions of Rome and sights to visit, with writings by famous authors, for the 'literary tourist'.
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