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Frommer's Rome 2001
Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer's, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer's. Your guide to a world of travel experience. Choose the Only Guide That Gives Great trips begin at frommers.com
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304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
About the author
Darwin Porter
302 books18 followersDarwin Porter (1937-) is an American travel writer, producing numerous titles, mostly for the Frommer guidebook series, over a 50-year career span.
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March 7, 2019
It is more than a guide book; starting with the Introduction each description's like a piece of literature that puts vivid images in your head.
Personally, I had fun taking pictures through the sites to post in my old blog with descriptions from the book matching with each picture.
Especially when it comes to historical sites the book offers many maps and well-organized courses to follow through, but no images of the sites you are about to see with your own eyes. The book pushes you to imagine yourself which happens to be the best advantage you get from reading written texts instead of watching images.
At some places you will feel like you've already been there before you actually get there. The book gives you a rare chance of time travel making you feel like you are lost walking into downtown Rome during the ancient, medieval and Renaissance times.
It is literally the best travel guide book for anyone who are in history and literature as well as for those who love to read and make your own images of certain things or places before you get to see them with your own eyes.
Personally, I had fun taking pictures through the sites to post in my old blog with descriptions from the book matching with each picture.
Especially when it comes to historical sites the book offers many maps and well-organized courses to follow through, but no images of the sites you are about to see with your own eyes. The book pushes you to imagine yourself which happens to be the best advantage you get from reading written texts instead of watching images.
At some places you will feel like you've already been there before you actually get there. The book gives you a rare chance of time travel making you feel like you are lost walking into downtown Rome during the ancient, medieval and Renaissance times.
It is literally the best travel guide book for anyone who are in history and literature as well as for those who love to read and make your own images of certain things or places before you get to see them with your own eyes.
March 3, 2008
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December 31, 2008"Read" = "glanced through and became really excited to go to Rome" Our trip is planned for us, so I didn't get to use the guides and tips.
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