Top 5 Cities To Go For Your Europe Tour – Part2 – Rome

I have been receiving overwhelming response on my first part of the story –Top 5 Cities to travel in Europe, London but, where are the rest of the 4 cities?

“Are you trying to make a mickey out of me?” I apologize for that. Let’s continue on the Part 2 of the story and this time I’m going to let you know the full top 5 Europe cities list for travel. However, only 1 of them to be fully elaborated for the ease of reading, and she is ROME. The Top 5 Europe Cities To Travel are:-

1. London – read more earlier;
2. Paris – read more later; 🙁
3. Prague – read more much later; 🙁
4. Venice – read more the latest, and
5. ROME – read more here.

ROME – If you are a big fan of Roman Empire, or fans of movies such as Rome, Troy, The Da Vinci Code, Gladiator or fan of nude potrait (statue or painting), or even if you are wondering who created the David statue, ‘The Last Supper’ painting, ‘The Creation of Adam’ or Pieta; Big fans of fashion, Georgio Armani or Versace, then you could find all your answers here in Rome.

Since 753B.C., Rome is one of the oldest and most significant civilization in human history. The most interesting part is, you could discover most of the Rome historical sites within walking distance. They are so concentrated. Once you step out of their Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, and grap a copy of the tourist map of Rome, you would see the city centre is full of tourist landmark and historic building (you may try scrolling around this satellite view)View Map. That is why Rome was inscribed by UNESCO as heritage city. With Millions of visitors every year, there are no secrets of her popularity. It is all about good contents! You could imagine that only great contents of a blog could attract traffic from all around. And it is why I would strongly recommend travelers to travel Rome by themselves, or engage a Free and Easy package, or backpacking and you would search for hostel through Travel Feeder side search panel.

Since Rome is one of the most reputable historic site of all, you could only appreciate more of her if you spend some time to study her history. Although Italy is a well developed country and Rome contributes substantial income to Italy, you will notice many of the road users are motorcyclist (and they are not wearing safety helmet!).

How to explore ROME? Here are some simple guides:

• Once you settle down to your accomodation, which is partly located in town centre, you could start walking. The first landmark you would notice must be the Coloseum, opposite the Roman Forum. Further down the road is the Trevi Fountain through the Piazza Del  Popolo and Campidoglio square where you could find Michelangelo’s David statue; Another famous tourists hang out is the Spanish Steps located further in front where you could have a break;
• While walking, you should explore every corner, try every local food like Gelato, drink every local beverage like drinking coffee in one of the oldest cafe, Antico Caffe Greco;
• Then you could do some shopping around Piazza de Spagna. ROME is famous for not only historic feature but is also the shopping paradise. Other than fashion, stoneware also tops in the world like mosaic insert and platesand also paintings. Remember to get form for tax rebate of up to 33% of price you bought;
• Via Condotti – Easy to find Street begins at the base of the Spanish Steps, this is Rome’s poshest and most prominent shopping street. Even the recent incursion of some less elegant stores hasn’t diminished the allure of Via Condotti as a consumer’s playground for the rich and super-rich. It’s a great place for window-shopping and people-watching;
• Not enough? Rome is giving away an extra City for you to explore, the Vatican City, once acclaimed the smallest country, a surrounded-by-Rome independent sovereign state, where you could witness the Pope of Catholic at the St. Peter Basilica and square and also the classic ceiling painting “The Born of Adam” created by Michelangelo, and
• Forget about the public transport in Rome as you could reach most of the hotspot of Rome by walking, unless, you have enough time and budget to take a train from Termini train stations (one of the biggest station with 29 platforms!) and leave ROME for Florence or Milan.

I just could not finish writing about Rome’s tourists attractions. There are many more historic architecture’s which are definitely worth a visit and I can tell you that 7 days just wasn’t enough for me to fully explore ROME – Travel Feeder.

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.