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Rome is regarded as one of the world's most beautiful ancient cities, [2] and contains vast amounts of priceless works of art, palaces, museums, parks, churches, gardens, basilicas, temples, villas, piazzas, theatres, and other venues in general. As one of the world's most important and visited cities, [3] there are numerous popular tourist ...
Part 2 (Central Italy and Rome) at the Internet Archive Part 3 (Southern Italy, Sicily, the Lipari Islands) at the Internet Archive Switzerland: with the Neighboring Lakes of Northern Italy, Savoy, and the Adjacent Districts of Piedmont, Lombardy and the Tyrol (4th rev. and augm. ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1867, OCLC 05279135
Rome is a tourist destination of archaeological and artistic significance. Among the most significant resources are museums – ( Capitoline Museums , the Vatican Museums, Galleria Borghese)— aqueducts , fountains , churches, palaces , historical buildings, the monuments and ruins of the Roman Forum , and the Catacombs .
While the concept of a travel guide-book already existed (Baedeker emulated the style of English guide-books published by John Murray [1]), Baedeker innovated in including detailed information on routes, travel and accommodation. Karl Baedeker had three sons, Ernst, Karl and Fritz and after his death each, in turn, took over the running of the ...
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
Ancient Roman itinerarium, or travel guide, from the 1st-century CE Vicarello Cups. Long-distance travel was difficult to access for poorer Romans due to limited time and economic constraints. [1] Shipwrecks, storms, [2] poor maps, [3] and weather conditions also presented challenges for tourists. [2]
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
The word catacombs comes from the Latin root word catatumbas meaning either "among the tombs" or, according to other translations from the original Late Latin, "next to the quarry". The later translation stems from the first excavations done to create the catacombs system, which was conducted outside of Rome near the quarry.