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Bus from Kharkov to Frankfurt:
13:45  5 сент.

42 ч. 45 мин. в пути

Харьков

Автостанция "Привокзальная", улица Евгения Котляра; дом 11

07:30  7 сент.  у Франкфурті
Frankfurt - Barcelona - 7вересня 17.25 47евро 19.20 Barcelona!!!

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Black Forest Railway https://www.blackforest-tourism.com/Media/Attraktionen/The-State-Art-Gallery

(Schwarzwaldbahn) and Triberg with its famous waterfalls.
Freiburg im Breisgau is considered the gateway to the southern Black Forest. The 1,284-meter Schauinsland, a mountain with stunning views across the region, lies within the city's boundaries, its numerous small streams still flowing through the streets of the old town. It's a beautiful city to explore on foot, especially if starting along Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse, which divides the old town into an eastern half, with the Minster, and a western half with the Town Halland University. On the south side stands the old Martinstor (St. Martin's Gate), and a short walk away, in Münsterplatz, are numerous well-preserved old buildings including the red Merchants' Hall (Kaufhaus) dating from 1532 with its splendid arcading and stepped gables and flanked by oriel windows with pointed roofs. Other highlights of the old town include the 13th-century Swabian Gate with its wall paintings and dioramas; the Rathausplatz with its statue of Berthold Schwarz, a Franciscan friar said to have invented gunpowder in 1359; the Gothic St. Martin's Church, with a beautifully restored interior and cloister; and the lovely House of the Whale (Haus zum Walfisch), a Late Gothic house built in 1516 as a residence for Emperor Maximilian.

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1. 35euro

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From Roma by traih * 2.5 euro Tour 55 euro lunch included
vino testing in chianti
1. By foot

Viticcio Wine Tastings

2. Montepulciano - 195euro
- in grup

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Olena 20

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Toskana  Momtepulchiano
starts at 7-30.106Euro vine and lunch included

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Frankfurt-München by bus - 11 and more euro 7ours or
by train  from 26 euro -3 ours 20,5
0 - 00,00  in working days.
blablaCar - too expensive.

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Frankfurt Card - 10.5 euro -   free travel on all public transport in Frankfurt including Frankfurt International Airport (FRA). This travelcard is available for one or two days and offers up to 50 % discount on city tours, museum admissions and further attractions.
ToO SLEEP 1 остановка на метро от аєропорта.
32Є

TO SEE:
1.kommunity walk - пешая прогулка с обзором основных исторических достопримечательностей - бесплатно. Карта, краткое описание.
2.  GrünGürtel/Green Belt ) 80 km² grünes Band rund um die City, 65 km Wander- und Radrundweg, Komische Kunst/An 80-sq/km band of green encircling the city; 65-km walking and cycling trail, sculptures and comical art
information about Frankfurt.
Lonely Planet
a) 50-minute sightseeing cruises - one-way €9.80 full circuit €12.80 , 11am-5pm
b) Städel Museum - €16 and up prices can vary according to temporary exhibitions. Dürer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Renoir, Picasso and Cézanne, dating from the Middle Ages to today. More contemporary works by artists including Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richte

Citizen’s Advice Service

TO EAT^

To spend a night - from 17euro per night

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zu schlafen
1. syrian architect and drawer 17 euro per night

And early morning to Cologne -  6 - 8 euro

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Room 24 euro Corinna , with pets.
Bed & Breakfast 34 euro in Center

zu Essen

1. Schreckenskammer

Local beer  and food-(mains €9 to €20)
Здесь пиво от 1,7, еда дешевле и больше вібор Вид на сад у собора Урсулы
2. Gaststätte Lommerzhei  10-19 euro

3. Oma Kleinmann

vine 5euro per 0,2l

TO SEE

Kölner Dom -  Hours-6am-9pm May-Oct, to 7.30pm

Price tower 4euro

Cologne Sightseeing Cruise 10 € 2 ours beer on board

Schokoladenmuseum - 11,5€  from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Köln Frankfurt am Mein - 3 Stunde von 125 bis 450 UAH.
Other highlights include the panoramic views from the South Towers, the 12th- and 13th-century stained glass in the Three Kings Chapel, and the Treasury with its many precious objects, all of which survived largely intact after WWII. For some of the best vistas over the city and river, climb the 533 steps to the viewing platform in the South Tower. (A small entrance fee is required.)

Art lovers will want to visit both the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and the Ludwig Museum when in Cologne. Housed in one of the city's newer architectural structures, these two excellent galleries cover a wide range of European painting, with works by Rembrandt, Manet, Renoir, Leibl, Liebermann, and Slevogt. The Wallraf-Richartz Museum is particularly strong in the work of the Cologne school, while the Ludwig focuses on modern and contemporary painting.
https://www.wallraf.museum/en/collections/

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Из аєропорта к жд вокзала шаттл  s €8.50 for adults Airport Express Shuttle Bus from Flughafen Dortmund to Hauptbahnhof
The bus takes around 25 minutes. During major trade shows, the Airport Express bus also stops at the Messe Westfallenhallen show grounds.

The Dortmund Airport Express runs around once per hour from the station from 5 am to 10:30 pm. The bus departs from the arrivals level at the airport and stops in front of Dortmund Hauptbahnhof.

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Kharkov-Kiew - Frankfurt

17/09 - 62€
time: 19:10 - 18:00-20:30 - 22:30

1. Дортмунд 2/9 1792 грн, 16.55 - 19,10  http://avs.io/tjX9
2, Дортмунд 18,10 - 20,25
2313 6/9  http://avs.io/tk0I
3, Дортмунд 9/09 16,55-19,10  за 1966 грн http://avs.io/tk1J
4, Дортмунд 13/09 за 1618 18,10 - 20,25

ОБРАТНО;
1, Милан - Харьков http://avs.io/tkaJ
2470  за 2470 грн 26 сентября  01,10 - 05,20
2, http://avs.io/tk7p + Милан-Киев 18/9 за 1491 грн  20,50 - 11,05
3,  http://avs.io/tk9z   Милан-Киев-Харьков 2919 25/9 4,1 - 11,25 в Киеве 2 часа

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https://www.divingline.it/Articoli/Articolo.aspx?idArticolo=766

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Милан-Барселона автобус

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Милан-Барселона автобус

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Очень плохие отзіві о перевозчике!!!
15:15ГОД, , 39 евро https://shop.flixbus.com.ua/search?departureCity=1194&arrivalCity=5178&route=%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0&rideDate=11.09.2018&adult=1&_locale=uk&wt_eid=2153130429004067816&wt_t=1531305098373&affiliate=%28not+set%29%2C&_ga=2.240054339.1374706807.1531304291-1003737136.1531304291

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Италия-Испания

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Италия-Испания

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Варианты:https://www.rome2rio.com/ru/s/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F/%D0%98%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F

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Рим-Барселона самолетом

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Рим-Барселона самолетом

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от 61 евро - 23,59 - 1,54
https://www.goeuro.com/travel-search2/results/931593786/flight?abTestParameters=&adults=1&arrival_fk=388498&children=0&departure_date=12%2F07%2F2018&departure_fk=388252&infants=0&srpQueryParams=v%3Dwa_dw_bcomb%3Aoff&travel_mode=train&user_currency=USD&user_domain=com&user_id=186da4be-cc1b-4017-b512-3229d7edeb8b&user_locale=en&v=wa_dw_bcomb:off

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Поездом ночным из Милана в Рим 48 евро

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Поездом ночным из Милана в Рим 48 евро

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https://www.lefrecce.it/B2CWeb/search.do?parameter=searchAdvInputViewer&cFID=b1PND6o5sXh4Надо проверить https://www.goeuro.com/travel-search2/results/994905338/train?abTestParameters=&adults=1&arrival_fk=388498&children=0&departure_date=10%2F09%2F2018&departure_fk=388252&infants=0&srpQueryParams=&travel_mode=train&user_currency=USD&user_domain=com&user_id=208e93c2-e436-4fe8-8639-f50a12f48ee5&user_locale=en
http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en - дешевле
Поиск билетов по Европе
https://www.omio.com/

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https://portofinodivers.com/en/accommodation.html

Есть жилье. минимум 50евро за ночь
Вот куда я хочу!:

Colombara

http://dgportofino.ne-ws.it/en/portofino/colombara-colombara/#gallery0d4b-2337a707-6167

http://dgportofino.ne-ws.it/en/portofino/scoglio-diamante/#gallery0d4b-2337f1b5-4679

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посмотреть сокровища музеев

Просмотр местности на карте ГУГЛ, включая магазині и кафе по правому клику - меню - замер дистанции

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Транспорт, Багаж

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Транспорт, Багаж

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Roma Pass - 28 евро
Багаж

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St Peter's Basilica
7-19
6 евро - попасть наверх без лифта (+2 за лифт до середины)
walk the 551 steps to the top
ДРЕСС КОД! Michelangelo’s Pietà - жалость и его же парящий купол. Bernini’s 29m-high baldachin over the papal altar.

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9.30am-12.45pm & 2.30-6.30pm Mon-Fri, 9.30am-12.15pm & 2.30-6.45pm Sat, 11.30am-12.45pm & 2.30-6.45pm Sun
церковь французской коммуны с ранними работами Караваджио

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Бесплатно
Часы открытия церкви:
7,00 -12,30
16,00 -19,45
рекомендуется график посещений:
16.30 -19.00
часов МАСС
Будни: с 7:00 до 8:00 - 10:00 до 11:00 - 12:00 до 19:00
воскресенье и праздничные дни: с 8:00 до 10:00 - 11:00 - 12:30 - 7:00.

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15 9am-7pm, last entry 6pm + Отличный бесплатный аудио-гид, рассказанный Джонатаном Памфиллом, приносит это место с семейными анекдотами и справочной информацией.
Каждую субботу музыка барочная во дворе с 11-00 и сопровождение на английском!
замечательная галерея, спрятанная за мрачным серым фасадом Палаццо Дориа Памфиля, может похвастаться одной из богатейших частных коллекций искусства Рима, с произведениями Рафаэля, Тинторетто, Тициана, Караваджо, Бернини и Веласкеса, а также нескольких фламандских мастеров. Шедевры предостаточно, но неоспоримый звезда «Портрет непримиримого папу Иннокентия X, который ворчал, что изображение было" Веласкес слишком реальным. Для сравнения, посмотрите скульптурную интерпретацию Джан Лоренцо Бернини того же предмета.

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Смотреть вечером, днем - полчища. Ежедневно 3000евро мелочи

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3 фонтана в т.ч. Бернини + здание бразильского посольства - барокко 1644-50 Площадь была главным рынком почти 300лет. Построена на месте стадиона

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7am-6.30pm, cloister 9am-6pm
Метро St.Giovanni
находится в стороне от прочих достоприме-й
Час ходу до Колизея
Великолепные статуи, мозаика на полу разных веков, 1-я хрисианская церковь, действующаяbasilica/cloister free/€5 with audio guide

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Вход бесплатный
8.30am-7.15pm Mon-Sat, 9am-5.45pm Sun. Лучше прийти к открытию.
Огромный круглый купол, опирающийся на кирпичную кладку. Внутреннее помещение - вписанная сфера. Зданию основному  более 2000 лет, достроено позже, потом разграблено. Изначально посвящалось 7-ми богам. Церковь рабочая большая, но слегка разграбленная.

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Отличный аудиогид . Перечень достопримечательностей с метками на карте, фото и аудиорассказом о каждой достопримечательности

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Пьяцца-дель-Кампидоглио от Микеланджело

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Пьяцца-дель-Кампидоглио от Микеланджело

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9am-7pm Tue-Sun
€15,
Самый живописный путь к вилле Боргезе — по бульвару Тринита-деи-Монти (viale Trinità dei Monti), что идет от вершины Испанской лестницы.
У Віллу Боргезе ведуть Іспанські сходи, другий вхід знаходиться зі сторони П'яцца дель Пополо.
Вілла Боргезе (італ. Villa Borghese) — великий ландшафтний парк у природній англійській манері в Римі, має кілька будинків, музеїв: Галерея Боргезе (Galleria Borghese), що володіє багатим зібранням творів мистецтва, серед яких чимало справжніх шедеврів; Національний музей вілла Джулія (Museo Nazionale Villa Giulia), що володіє найбільшою колекцією етруського мистецтва, і Національна галерея сучасного мистецтва (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna), яка охоплює майже всі основні художні течії починаючи з XIX ст. В парку також розташовані атракціони. Це третій за величиною громадський парк в Римі (80 гектарів або 148 акрів)

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Харьков-Милан

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Харьков-Милан

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Билеты здесь
Цена  от 2100 грн с 9 мая если покупать в конце марта
Самый дешевый и удобный 7,25-22,15 в Милане с ожиданием в Киеве 8 часов Автобусом до Киева не дешевле.

1. https://www.aviasales.ru/search/HRK0709MIL1

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ВЕНА - Сейчас. Навсегда

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Hofburg - императорская резиденция

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Венский Хофбург - это один из крупнейших дворцовых комплексов мира. Самые старые части комплекса были построены в XIII веке, строительные работы продолжались вплоть до XX века. Хофбург был резиденцией и центром правления императорской династии Габсбургов до 1918 года Сегодня здесь находятся многочисленные музеи с выдающимися коллекциями, Испанская школа верховой езды, конгресс-центр, резиденция федерального президента Австрии, а также историческая площадь Хельденплац.

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Audioguide We tend to see only what we know. Learn more.

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die Kaiserliche Wagenburg Wien das Schloss Ambras Innsbruck das Weltmuseum Wien das Theatermuseum

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розклад автобусів кошице вена

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дешево купити квиток на автобус кошице вена

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вартість і ціна квитків кошице вена

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Автобуси Кошице - Вена: розклад рейсів, вартість квитків, карта і час у дорозі маршруту

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Розклад автобусів між містами Кошице і Вена з можливістю покупки і бронювання квитків онлайн за низькими цінами.

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пресс-релизы

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Турсоветы - Словакия: вкус вина, фруктовых дистиллятов, сырных деликатесов

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Продолжая знакомство со Словакией, хотим вас заверить, что темой путешествия в эту страну могут быть не только лыжи и аквапарки, замки и спа-курорты. Словакия - полноценная страна для г ...

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Одного дня хватит. А вечером автобусом в Вену.
https://podorozhuy.com.ua/2017/07/28/kosice/
Посетить старый город, полюбоваться окрестностями, недорого поесть, попить пива,  Чаевые составляют примерно 10 % от суммы счёта и полагаются персоналу за хорошее обслуживание.

City transport ticket: €0.70

Museum entrance: €1–4

Canteen meal: €3–6

Beer: €1.50

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Харьков-Ужгород

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Поездом.
15:12 отправление

10:30 - прибытие

расписание автобусов до Кошице

Автовокзал "Центральный", улица Станционная; дом 2

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Santa Maria Maggiore

According to legend, in 356 AD snow fell in this spot in the middle of summer on August 5 - so Pope Liberius built a church to the Madonna to commemmorate the meteorological miracle. Rebuildings and extensions followed through the centuries, but vestiges of earlier versions linger: the glorious 13th-century mosaics of a former facade in the loggia, fifth-century mosaics above the nave columns, and a marvellously Byzantine 13th-century mosaic of Mary being crowned queen of heaven in the apse. The flamboyant Sistine and Paoline chapels were added in the 16th and 17th centuries respectively. The roof of this basilica is said to be gilded with gold donated by the Borgia Pope Alexander VI, from the first shipment from the New World. Whether or not that's true, the symbol of the much-derided Borgia family - a bull - is very much in evidence.

Address: Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, 00185
Getting there: Metro Cavour or Termini; bus to Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore (multiple services)
Contact: 00 39 06 6988 6800; vatican.va
Prices: Basilica: free. Guided tour of loggia: €3. Guided tour of excavations: €5
Open: daily, 7am-6.45pm

Santa Maria del Popolo

Demons were said to haunt this spot where evil Emperor Nero was buried, so a chapel was built in 1099 to oust them. There are many reasons to visit today's largely 15th-century church: for me, the most compelling ones are two lovely chapels decorated for the Borgias by Pinturicchio, a mosaic depicting a horoscope designed by Raphael in the Chigi chapel, some macabre carved skeletons by the main door...and - to the left of the main altar - Caravaggio's awe-inspiring canvasses, shot through with dazzling light, showing the conversion of St Paul and the martyrdom of St Peter. Note that other Caravaggio masterpieces are to be found in Rome's churches, most notably San Luigi dei Francesi near Piazza Navona, with three dramatic scenes from the life of Saint Matthew.

Santa Maria della Vittoria

Swiss-born architect Carlo Maderno may have been one of the fathers of the Baroque, but it's not his design for this early 17th-century church that attracts most visitors. If you're here, it's probably to see Gian Lorenzo Bernini's masterpiece, a side-chapel portraying The Ecstasy of St Teresa. Executed in the mid-17th century, the whole sculptural scene is pure theatre. In high-relief boxes to each side of the chapel, members of the Cornaro family, which commissioned the work, chat idly, barely watching the action. Meanwhile above the altar, the saint swoons, her drapery piled elegantly about her, as a mischievous angel prepares to prick her with his arrow. There's more of Bernini's decidely risqué ecstasy in the church of San Francesco a Ripa, Trastevere, where the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni is similarly carried away.

Santa Prassede

Not a well documented saint, Praxedes is said to have sponged up the blood of second-century martyrs who got the chop before she did, and squeezed it into a well, marked by a porphyry disc in the nave. Pope Pascal I built the first church here in the ninth century: a scaled-down replica of the original St Peter's to honour his mamma, St Theodora. As the locals didn't meet his standards, he brought craftsmen from Byzantium, hence the exotic exuberance of the spectacular mosaic decoration, especially in his mother's mausoleum, the St Zeno chapel (note Theodora portrayed with a square halo, denoting that she was still alive when the image was made). Off the chapel, a small room contains a column which, we're told, Christ was tied to for flagellation. In the apse of the church, Praxedes and her sister Pudentiana are presented to Christ by Saints Paul and Peter respectively.

Address: Via Santa Prassede 9a, 00184
Getting there: Metro Cavour; bus to Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore (multiple services)
Contact: 00 39 06 488 2456
Open: Mon-Sat 7am-noon, 3pm-6.30pm; Sun, 7.30am-12.30pm, 3pm-6.30pm

Santi Quattro Coronati

I love bringing visiting friends to this hidden gem - as discreet as the closed order of nuns that lives and prays here - in a surprisingly rural part of central Rome; it barely registers in most guidebooks, but it's a delight. Who the four saints the church is dedicated to were, and why they were crowned (coronati), is anybody's guess, though traditionally (and on no evidence at all) the stonemasons' guild claims they were four men who refused to sculpt an image of the god Aesculapius and were martyred for their obstinacy. Normans rampaged through here in 1084. The out-of-proportion apse you see as you meander up Via dei Santi Quattro hails from an earlier building. In the oratory outside the church, 13th-century frescoes tell how Emperor Constantine, miraculously cured of leprosy by Pope Sylvester, endowed the Church with political and territorial powers as well as divine ones; this was in fact a fabrication, a piece of bare-faced Medieval spin. Cross the church's intricate, Cosmatesque mosaic floor to the early 13th-century cloister - arguably Rome's loveliest. In 2014, the magnificient 13th-century frescoes of the basilica's Aula Gotica were opened to the public but only for a few guided visits each year - these should be booked well in advance at aulagoticasantiquattrocoronati.it.

Spanish Steps

Why Spanish? Certainly the Spanish embassy was located below in Piazza di Spagna in the early 18th century, but funds to 'improve' the steep wooded slope rising up from there to the French Trinità dei Monti church at the summit were bequeathed by French diplomat Etienne Gueffier, and the architect who designed this elegant, butterfly-shaped ramp of 135 steps was little-known Italian Francesco de Sanctis. The official name - Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti - must have proved too much for the Grand-Touring Brits who made this most central of areas their own in the 18th and 19th centuries. Once the hang-out of country girls hoping to serve as artists' models, the staircase is now the haunt of tourists seeking the romantically picturesque, and of local lotharios checking out foreign talent. The charming boat fountain at the bottom is by Pietro Bernini, father of the more famous Gian Lorenzo. Nearby is the house where poet John Keats died in 1821, aged only 25. It's now a quaint, atmospheric museum ( keats-shelley-house.org).

Credit: Richard I'Anson

Stadio dei Marmi

If, like me, you enjoy the absurdity of over-the-top propaganda art, you'll love the Mussolini-era Foro Italico sports complex in the northern Flaminio suburb, which displays Fascist-era sculpture at its most grandiloquent. Around an athletics stadium, 64 massive statues, each donated by different Italian provinces, represent sportsmen transformed into gods and heroes, preening on their marble plinths like they're auditioning for an Armani ad. Access to the Stadio dei Marmi is free; not so the nearby Stadio Olimpico, where both AS Roma and SS Lazio play home games. For tickets to the latter, book through listicket.com.

Address: Piazza Lauro de Bosis, 00194
Getting there: Bus to Lungotevere Maresciallo Diaz or Piazza Mancini (multiple services); tram 2
Prices: Stadio dei Marmi: free. Stadio Olimpico: ticket prices for matches and events vary

St Peter's

The largest church in Christendom, hub of Catholicism, was consecrated in 1626. It's a choral work by Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, Maderno and Bernini, replacing a classical basilica which by tradition stood on the burial place of Peter the apostle. Bernini's eliptical colonnaded piazza outside, and his superb bronze baldachin over the main altar inside, are scaled to fool your eye. But stand at the back of the basilica and gaze to the other end: the people there look tiny. In the first chapel on the right is Michelangelo's moving Pietà. Closer to the altar, the toes of Arnolfo da Cambio's bronze St Peter are worn shiny by pious kisses. Off the left-hand nave is the Museo-Storico Artistico (also known as the Tesoro), with precious ornaments accumulated by the papacy over the centuries, including the ninth-century Throne of St Peter in wood and ivory. St Peter's dome (or cupola) is Rome's highest and the view from the top is breathtaking; bear in mind that even if you opt to take the lift, there are still 320 steps to the very top. Note that if you have bare shoulders or too much leg showing, you will not be allowed in the basilica. Daunting queues form at the entrance both to the basilica and the dome at peak times, but they generally move swiftly. Basilica, free. Dome: €6, or €8 with lift. Treasury museum: €6

Trevi Fountain

When Frank Sinatra crooned "Three Coins in the Fountain" for the eponymous 1954 film, he probably didn't suspect how big a favour he was doing for the charity which now rakes the haul out of the bowl at the foot of this Rococo sculptural extravaganza: until then, one coin had sufficed to ensure a return for the traveller to the Eternal City. Designed by Niccolò Salvi and completed in 1732, this gloriously exuberant fountain marks the end of the ancient Aqua Vergine aqueduct that carries water from the spring of the same name in the hills outside Rome. Tradition has it that a young girl showed the thirsty soldiers of Roman general Agrippa where the spring was hidden, hence the name. There's always a crowd here, day and night, usually under the wary eye of a vigile (traffic policeman) who's there to make sure nobody tries to imitate Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni's fully-clad wade through the waters in Fellini's La Dolce Vita. If you want to see the fountain at its least crowded, you should take at least a time cue from that cinematic dip, and swing by in the small hours of the morning.

Address: Piazza di Trevi, 00187
Getting there: Bus to Via del Corso or Via del Tritone (multiple services)

Trastevere

You have to hand it to the Trastevere (pronounced TrastEveray) district. Despite the contradiction of (a) containing some of the city's priciest real estate, and (b) being overrun by tourists during the day and rowdy, hard-drinking Anglo-American college students at night, it still manages to exude a very special rough-edged charm. Being unthinkably picturesque helps, of course; as does having more tempting cafés and bars than attention-demanding major sights. To do Trastevere justice, though, it's worth popping into a handful of wonderful churches: Santa Maria in Trastevere for its 12th-century apse mosaic; Santa Cecilia for the glorious Last Judgment fresco by 13th-century genius Pietro Cavallini; and San Francesco a Ripa for Bernini's ambiguous statue of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni.

Villa Borghes

Central Rome's largest gardens began life as the pleasure park of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, lover of art and the good life. What remains of his art collection is in the Borghese Gallery at the heart of the gardens. The cardinal's water-squirting automata and wild animals placed here for hunting forays are a distant memory, but there are bikes and scooters for hire, and dinghies for rowing across the ornamental lake. That this green lung survived at all is a miracle. While other Roman dynasties cashed in, selling their suburban estates to property in the building boom following Italian unification in the 1870s, the state saved this last patch of vegetation and opened it to the masses. The gardens' most incongruous offering is a replica of London's Globe Theatre, with productions (in Italian) of Shakespeare's classic plays: see globetheatreroma.com for programme and tickets.e

Address: Piazzale Napoleone 1, 00187
Getting there: Metro Spagna or Flaminio; bus to Viale San Paolo del Brasile (multiple services)
Open: daily, dawn to sunset

Vittoriano monument

The bombastic Vittoriano is nationalist pomp at its most grandiloquent - an outsize monument to pint-sized monarch Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of united Italy. A picturesque quarter of medieval houses on Roman foundations was razed to make room for what is variously nicknamed 'the typewriter' or 'the wedding cake'. Work began in 1885 but proceeded at a snail's pace - not helped by a decision to eschew local travertine in favour of gleaming white marble from Brescia - and didn't end until 1935. An unknown soldier was buried here in 1921, and still has a regularly rotated guard of honour. Skirt to the right of the monument and climb the steps to the Ara Coeli church, beside which an elevator shoots up to the roof. Go on a clear day: the view will take your breath away.

Monti

On tourist maps of Rome, Monti is a sort of Bermuda Triangle, the blank space between the major draws of the Colosseum, Santa Maria Maggiore and the Quirinal. But in fact this lively, historic residential quartiere is anything but blank - it makes up for its lack of obvious 'sights' with lashings of shabby-chic Roman atmosphere. Back in the days of Empire, this was the Suburra - a densely populated working-class district of artisans, chancers and prostitutes. Though gentrified today, its cobbled lanes still make for a refreshing, human-scale contrast with the civic bombast of the Forum and Colosseum. Full of funky bars, creative trattorias and alternative fashion and accessory shops (the latter especially in pretty Via del Boschetto), it's a great place to unwind and refuel after a long day's sightseeing.

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Santa Maria Maggiore According to legend, in 356 AD snow fell in this spot in the middle of summer on August 5 - so Pope Liberius built a church to the Madonna to commemmorate the meteorological miracle.