Rome Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/cat/italy/rome Fri, 09 Sep 2016 11:45:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Rome Map http://toursmaps.com/rome-map.html http://toursmaps.com/rome-map.html#respond Fri, 09 Sep 2016 11:45:32 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=215462 When in Rome do as the Romans do; well not quite. Rome needs no more noisy scooters rattling the windows of houses on narrow streets at midnight. Rome needs no more rip-off artists who are glad to relieve visitors of their money. Rome needs no more auto drivers who think they are charioteers whirling through the Pincio Gate and around the dozens of monuments from ancient Rome. Driving a rental car in Italian cities is only for the brave or the oblivious. Who needs traffic lights when driving can be a game of dodge-em or chicken. Street signs are not

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/rome-map.html/feed 0 Italy Map http://toursmaps.com/italy-map.html http://toursmaps.com/italy-map.html#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:47:52 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=207927 Visitors to Florence find the place jammed in the summer, the prices and temperatures high. They have great difficulty in finding a table in the town’s most famous square, Piazza della Signoria. It was here in 1497 that the fiery Dominican priest, Savonarola, touched the Florentines’ sense of guilt from too much good living, and set the torch to blogs, paintings and musical instruments. Unfortunately for Savonarola, the guilt feelings were fleeting. The next year in the same square the torch was set to Savonarola. The merchant families of Florence had prospered during the period of the Crusades from trade

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