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City Secrets: Rome (City Secrets) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Robert Kahn, Angela Hederman, Pablo Conrad
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 125109
Media: Library Binding
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 266
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1892145049
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.563204929
EAN: 9781892145048
ASIN: 1892145049
Publication Date: February 1, 2000
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Product Description
This unique compilation of insights into the world's most magnificent art, architecture and antiquities, by the people who know them best, unlocks the door to the Rome most visitors miss.
A renowned painter shows the way to an overlooked masterpiece; an archaeologist walks you through an intriguing ancient ruin; a Renaissance scholar tells which of Michelangelo's works he finds the most moving of all. Along the way a poet laureate imparts the address of a gourmet cheese shop with its own pizzeria and an acclaimed director sets the stage for an ideal Roman afternoon.
City Secrets Rome reveals the city that will take your breath away. Organized by area; with colour maps, vintage photographs and illustrations.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Hard to read and of limited use March 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't recommend this book for the average person. The type is teeny tiny and in pale greyscale against a vellum background; very artsy but impossible to read. The content is comprised of personal opinions by academics and artists.
 City Secrets September 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
City Secrets is a jewel. We enjoyed both the content and the style of the authors, all grant winners at the American Academy in Rome. The book directed us to sites and places to eat we would not have discovered otherwise.
City Secrets is not an easy read May 19, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a guidebook, this probably isn't the best choice. The book reads like a series of short essays and opnions about Rome sights, but doesn't provide much practical information. I wasn't able to get through the entire book even though it's small. The gray print makes it difficult to read in any less than perfect light. There may be some interesting facts in it. I just wasn't able to make my way through the payges to get to them.
The Only Guide I Needed July 15, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was a very useful guide. I would highly recommend it to those who hope to learn more about the Rome that larger tours would miss.
 Interesting Companion Book, January 21, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'd actually rate this book as 3 1/2 stars. As other reviewers have noted, the book isn't a typical stand-alone guidebook. We traveled to Rome in November 2004 and used this book as a companion to more a more standard guidebook. The book is very nice quality, attractive, and small. The various authors, which include several notable scholars, provided unique insight that helped us find some cool and overlooked places and also pointed our some particular things about places that we wouldn't have otherwise noticed.
Since the book doesn't appear to be regularly updated, I would say it is much more useful for the insights regarding architectural/cultural aspects, such as the forum or the many public squares, but less valuable as a guide to eateries or shopping areas that are more likely to change. Some of the recommended restaurants and stores were not at the listed address.
Also, one of the writers recommended arriving early and rushing through the Vatican museum so that you can arrive at the Sistine Chapel before the crowds and view it in relative solitude. We did this, but be aware that the museum is arranged as a rather long one-way tour and the Sistine Chapel is near the end. We followed the advice and rushed through to the Sistine Chapel, thinking we would go back and revisit the other sites, but the museum is so large that we didn't have time or feel like going back through it all again. By rushing through, I think we missed a lot.
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