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DK Eyewitness Rome (Travel Guide) Paperback – Illustrated, May 25, 2021
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An eternal city fusing ancient wonders with a modern metropolis, Rome brings history to life like nowhere else. Grab an espresso and immerse yourself in the iconic city streets, navigating cobbled alleyways and popular piazzas. Or stroll through the leafy expanses of Villa Borghese and unwind with a wine on a pavement café.
Our updated guide brings Rome to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide does with expert-led insights, trusted travel advice, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations which place you inside the city's iconic buildings and neighborhoods. DK Eyewitness Rome is your ticket to the trip of a lifetime.
Inside DK Eyewitness Rome you will find:
- A fully-illustrated top experiences guide: our expert pick of Rome’s must-sees and hidden gems
- Accessible itineraries to make the most out of each and every day
- Expert advice: honest recommendations for getting around safely, when to visit each sight, what to do before you visit, and how to save time and money
- Color-coded chapters to every part of Rome, from the Capitol to Trastevere, Campo de’ Fiori to the Vatican
- Practical tips: the best places to eat, drink, shop and stay
- Detailed maps and walks to help you navigate the region country easily and confidently
- Covers: Capitol, Forum and Palatine, Piazza della Rotonda, Piazza Navona, Piazza di Spagna and Villa Borghese, Campo de’ Fiori, Quirinal and Monti, Esquiline, Lateran, Caracalla, Aventine, Trastevere, Janiculum, Vatican, Via Veneto, Beyond the Centre
Touring the country? Try our DK Eyewitness Italy. Want the best of Rome in your pocket? Try our DK Eyewitness Top 10 Rome.
About DK Eyewitness:
At DK Eyewitness, we believe in the power of discovery. We make it easy for you to explore your dream destinations. DK Eyewitness travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 1993. Filled with expert advice, striking photography and detailed illustrations, our highly visual DK Eyewitness guides will get you closer to your next adventure. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Named Top Guidebook Series at the 2020 Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards, we know that wherever you go next, your DK Eyewitness travel guides are the perfect companion.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDK Eyewitness Travel
- Publication dateMay 25, 2021
- Dimensions4.97 x 0.87 x 8.56 inches
- ISBN-100241510635
- ISBN-13978-0241510636
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- Publisher : DK Eyewitness Travel; Illustrated edition (May 25, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0241510635
- ISBN-13 : 978-0241510636
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 4.97 x 0.87 x 8.56 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #24,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10 in Italian History (Books)
- #38 in general Italy Travel Guides
- #122 in Tourist Destinations & Museums Guides
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Get closer to your journey with DK Eyewitness. Filled with expert advice, beautiful photographs, and detailed illustrations, our highly visual guides show you what others only tell you. We publish guides to more than 200 destinations, from handy pocket-sized city guides to comprehensive country guides. Wherever you’re heading, they’re the perfect travel companion.
Winner, Gold Award, Top Guidebook at the 2020 Wanderlust Magazine Reader Travel Awards.
Winner of the Travel Media Awards 2019 Guide of the Year for DK Eyewitness New York City.
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I am so very disappointed in the change DK Eyewitness Guide has made to its 2021 books!
I've used DK Eyewitness Guides for 20 years and they've taken me around the world, to known and obscure places. What makes the guide books terrific are the photos that help identify what you are seeing and the schematics of historic buildings. Even when our family takes a fully-guided tour or a cruise, I buy the DK Guides so I can understand in advance what we will see. We always hire private guides when we're on our own and DK helps me think through what I want to see in advance so we can plan accordingly with the private guide.
We were to go to Egypt in 2 weeks for a fully-guided tour. I bought the 2020 Egypt DK Eyewitness Books and they are terrific. Trip was cancelled and we've quickly booked Rome and Florence for same dates. Scrambling to plan and I immediately ordered my guide books. I have books from last trip in 2005 but I wanted updates for restaurants, hotels, etc.
What has changed: historically, Eyewitness includes a section with a list of hotels, restaurants, shopping, etc. at the back of the book. The list was divided by areas of a city/region, it was comprehensive in offering choices from 5 star to 1 star and it explained the pros/cons of each hotel and restaurant. It was easy to flip to the back of the book and scan. The contents of the books have always been divided by regions/parts of city, but it was convenient to keep touring separate from logistics. This was helpful for advance planning of hotels and/or restaurants. Using the Eyewitness Guides made roughing out a tentative itinerary very easy.
NOW, in the midst of the book, embedded in the regions, are one or two dining options and, perhaps one hotel suggestion. AND, the index is no help because the page references are incorrect. For example, in the Rome book, the index says hotel recommendations for the Piazza Navona are on page 129 when, in fact, there is 1 hotel recommendation on page 131. No rankings, just a hotel name and website. This information and format is not helpful on the fly when you need a good place to take a hungry child for lunch.
Last, the cover of the Eyewitness Guides have always been solid and durable. The pages are glossy and heavy. None of mine are worse for wear, even though they've been worn hard. NOW, the cover is flimsy and the paper inside is cheap. I can't imagine the books will survive this trip, much less survive several trips or 20 years like my older copies. All said, with no help on current matters like dining, shopping, etc., I'll probably take my tried and true copies.
DK, return to old format!! This is a very bad downgrade!
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The photography is very good which helps you to clearly visualise places before you actually get there.
Very inspiring guide book.

Never let me down.
Subject to change.
I'm a pessimist.

Absolutely impressive amount of detail has gone in to this travel guide. Rome is a city full of history, and this guide will help you every step of the way. Inside this book you can find so much inspiration to plan your day to day journey's around this fine city. There is literally something for everyone, sightseeing, culture, places to eat, art, sport, music, shopping, 21st century Rome. There are maps inside the book for the different areas of Rome for you to discover. If I had the chance to visit Rome I'd like to go to the Colosseum first, and then continue my adventure using this guide. If you are lucky enough to visit Rome, this guide really is a must buy. Highly recommend it.


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 22, 2021
Absolutely impressive amount of detail has gone in to this travel guide. Rome is a city full of history, and this guide will help you every step of the way. Inside this book you can find so much inspiration to plan your day to day journey's around this fine city. There is literally something for everyone, sightseeing, culture, places to eat, art, sport, music, shopping, 21st century Rome. There are maps inside the book for the different areas of Rome for you to discover. If I had the chance to visit Rome I'd like to go to the Colosseum first, and then continue my adventure using this guide. If you are lucky enough to visit Rome, this guide really is a must buy. Highly recommend it.







I now must make some remarks that I have said before and which apply to the whole DK Eyewitness range. The ‘secret’, and the ‘defect‘ of this series of guides lies in the Eyewitness name. Visually they are stunning, but informationally they are light. They do locate the most interesting sights, whether well-known or obscure, but they do not provide the level of information that other guides always do. In a Country Guide, I do not find this a great weakness, since there are so many other sources of info on opening times, costs, directions, booking, etc – not least from a smartphone! Maybe that is the rationale? Having said that there are 8 pages of ‘Need to Know’ at the back, with the back page containing a map of the whole country to assist in orientation. There are a few restaurant and hotel recommendations in small side panels. All are conservative. Most are expensive. In fact, I have yet to take a DK recommendation on any restaurant from any book!
Nonetheless, I am a real fan of the format, and appreciate the way the series has recently been revised. The Country guides suffer more than the city ones in my view from an even greater lack of more local information on transport system, personal safety, etc. to some degree this is counterbalanced by a feature that I really rate – the ‘Must See’ sections, which are identified by yellow page markings. These are hard to disagree with but are not just the usual stuff regurgitated. I have indeed seen most of the ‘must sees’, but at the time thought that I was being very clever and insightful! I am certainly not the kind of person who follows the herd. Fresh stuff.
I particularly like the way the city is divided into its quarters and then each quarter treated as a destination in itself. That is how I will myself now treat my explorations of the parts of Rome we know little about. Janiculum hill here we come!
There is a great deal more here to like:
Firstly, this guide has themed suggestions, in this case for obvious things common to all the series, like architecture, families, the outdoors, food - plus some quirkier themes.
Secondly the photos are designed to give you a genuine idea as to whether a particular site is worth the effort. The space gained by dropping so much standard tourist information is very well used in showcasing these destinations. Maps are always excellent (except sometimes for driving), although this is mitigated by the full map in the back. This Italy guide has the most town maps of any in the series, reflecting the huge range of Medieval and Renaissance still there for us to enjoy. This is one simple reason why this has now become my preferred guide to the country.
Thirdly the Dorling Kindersley heritage extends to get excellent semi 3D maps of small but highly significant areas. (This is rather than providing cutaways of individual major buildings that you get in the Country guide equivalents by DK.) I love them. This style consciousness extends to the more general maps as well, which are I think the best around for clarity.
And finally, although the authorship of each part is not emphasised (unlike, say, Lonely Planet), the style is still pretty friendly, chummy even. Although I do not know who wrote each bit, I do know that they like me and want me to have a good time. Your only reasons for not liking this guide would be stylistic. It is as up to date as such guides can be, - but as they all are, it is ‘Pre-Covid’!

Rome your way gives recommendations of things to see depending on what interests you; art lovers foodies, sports fans, shoppers and lots more groups will find ideas to their taste.
The book then looks at what to see and do, with suggestions of where to eat and where to stay in each area of the city. There is a specific section on the Vatican, which is of course a separate to country to Italy. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout
There is a very useful laminated map which can be removed - it is strong enough to last for a long time even in the rain.
This is a really useful guide and one which I am already using in the hope of a visit to Rome and to Italy again as soon as possible.