Streetwise Rome Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Rome, Italy – Folding pocket size travel map with metro map, subway (Map)
May 21, 2009 by Traveler
Filed under Travel Italy Guides
Review
‘Don’t leave home without STREETWISE.’ –The New York Times
‘STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.’ –Travel + Leisure Magazine
‘In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.’ –Chicago Daily Herald
Product Description
Streetwise Rome Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Rome, Italy – Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map including subway & railway lines, stations
This map covers the following areas:
Main Rome Map 1:17,000
Rome Historic District Map 1:8,700
Rome Metro Map
As the saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day. It took hundreds of years to create the great Roman Empire, but it shouldn’t take as long to find your way around the ancient ruins that remain. With a STREETWISE® Map of Rome Italy, you have the ultimate guide to navigating Italy’s most famous and most historic city.
Throughout the city of Rome, past and present are intertwined as modern-day Italians and visiting tourists walk and drive through the remnants of one of history’s greatest civilizations. Whether it’s your first time or another return visit to your favorite destination, there’s always something new to see in Rome. A great map can be the key to discovering all the city has to offer.
Our STREETWISE® Rome Map provides a comprehensive and fully detailed map of Rome to aid you in finding your way to all there is to do and see in this great center of history and culture. From Vatican City to the southeast corner of Palatine, the STREETWISE® Rome Map covers the entire city in full-color, including graphic representations of the major buildings and historic sites. Our STREETWISE® Rome City Map is fully indexed, including streets, piazzas, gardens, and important places of interest. The STREETWISE® Rome Map also features a map of the Rome Metro system, including subway lines, railways, and the airport.
Our pocket size map of Rome is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Rome map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Rome map today and you too can navigate Rome, Italy like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
I went to Rome with three guidebooks and this map. It was this map that was the most useful tool for negotiating the city. It is compact, yet very comprehensive, accurate and well marked. It was easy to find landmarks, tourist sites, piazzas, metro stops, etc., as well as even the tiniest streets in Rome. A big plus is the fact that the map is laminated – we were caught out in a heavy rainstorm, and this map held up admirably – the paper map we received from our hotel disintegrated. I would highly recommend this map to anyone travelling in Rome.
You can find an official (and free) map and important extra documentation at the Tourism Office of all European cities you plan on traveling to. These offices are right at the Train station or Airport. Even your hotel concierge will provide you with a decent map.
In my experience, all Tourism Office maps were better than the Streetwise ones I had bought for my trip. Some of the flaws I saw:
- Metro lines not drawn out, just stations. It helps to see the actual metro line when you are looking for other stations along your line.
- Map is a bit too shrunk down for some cities: street names are too close together and hard to read.
- No vaporetto lines for Venice.
… but the map is better than nothing. I don’t think you need it if you can spend the 5 minutes to stop at the Tourism Office.
There’s no disputing the point that there are more complete, more dtailed maps. However, that misses the point. One does not ordinarily need microscopic detail in negotiating an unfamiliar city. What one does need is a broad outline of the city that can be speedily referenced to orient oneself. For this purpose (primarily that of the tourist), Streetwise is THE superior product. If you need detail, buy a Mapsco. If you just want to quickly figure out where you are, Streetwise is the way to go
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Map! Very durable. Great value.
Great map of Rome. Very easy to read with map of metro and a detailed map of downtown. Extremely durable laminated finish.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for your trip to Rome!!
This was a God send for my trip, have lent it to friends who traveled after me.
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great products
This handy maps are great. Be sure to review them before you leave to be sure they cover the area you will be in because they are limited to city center and specific highly…
3.0 out of 5 stars
Get a magnifying glass
This map is handy in that it can be slipped into a purse, is laminated, so it won’t crease in the wrong places, but the print is very small.
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great map!
i love these things. use them all the time in the U.S., so i got one for a friend who was going to Italy. she said it was perfect.
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It Works
There’s not much you can say about a Map. It Works. I’ve used this “Streetwise” series in many cities, and I find them very handy.
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The only map you need
Just returned from eight days of walking in Rome. This is the only map we needed to find our way to everything that was of interest to us.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Map best for Historic Rome
Has most of Historic Rome but not much of the out lying area. Have bought two to use on different trips.
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Rome Map
This map is wonderful!!!! It was a great asset to our trip. It is laminated and folds easily so you don’t have to worry about it getting ruined.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Just ok.
Rome is a hard city to map. Lots of small streets hidden down even smaller streets (but some how the Italians still drive 70 down them), but sometimes those are the streets that…