Rome: places and pleasures

by Kate Simon

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394468244
• ISBN13: 9780394468242
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Knopf
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Take a Walk

The useful life of most city guidebooks is about three years, a fact that reflects less on the nature of the books than on the reality of city life. If you revisit a place after three years or more and you don't feel some sense of strangeness, then the place is not a city. It may be a lovely town or village, but cities don't hold still for us. Rome may be an exception for the tourist bent on spending a day or so 'doing' it and indeed, the splendor of its days as a world center are still on view as they were a century ago. But the Rome of the passionate visitor or the short-term resident is different. For them, Rome renews itself like any other great city. This book is 35 years old and would be sorely out of date except for one feature: there are seven delightful walks suggested of which six are still as much fun as when the book was written. There is also a delightful section called 'How to Live in Rome' which, while a bit antique in terms of traffic cliches, is delightful reading and may even reflect a view of themselves that Romans still cherish. By all means, take your Fodor's when you go, but be sure to highlight a few of those classic walks from Kate Simon. Lynn Hoffman, author of bang BANG [...]