The Seaside of Italy in photos - Sorento, Naples and more....

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Mount Vesuvius, the Volcano, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Mount Vesuvius, the Volcano, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Seaside of Italy - Sorento, Naples

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy - The Beauty of Italy 5

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy

Boat Racing Challenge at Naples, Italy, Castel Nuovo

The Beauty of Italy 4 - Naples

Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, Italy

Castel Nuovo, Naples, Italy

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The Shopping Centre Galleria Umberto I, Naples, Italy

The Shopping Centre Galleria Umberto I, Naples, Italy, located directed across from the San Carlo Opera House

San Carlo Opera House, Naples, Italy

San Carlo Opera House, Naples, Italy

More Photos from Italy you can see here and here.

Rome, Italy On a Budget The ROMA Pass

For all of you who want to visit Rome on a budget! Here we have to talk about the Roma Pass. 

 

This is an integrated card that serves you both for the Museums and the public transport. It costs 25 Euro. The card can be bought from Enjoy Rome, all the major Museums and Archeologial sites and the Tourist Information Points with the exception of the Vatican.

Gardens in the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

The ROMA Pass can be used for three days starting from the first use til the midnight of the third day.

at the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

The ROMA Pass gives you the right to enter for free in two Museums or Archeological sites. /Exception for the Vatican Museums; The Colosseum, Forum and Palatine Hill count together as one site/. After you visit the two places the cadr gives you discounts on any further participating museums, sites, exhibitions. The card can serve you to enter the Galleria Borghese, but you still have to reserve tickets the usual way.

Inside the Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Last but not least - The ROMA Pass lets you use all the public transport during these three days for free!!!

Museums of Rome on a budget - tips needed!!

St.Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

Discounts:  Most of the Museums and Archeological sites offer a discount for EU residents under the age of 18, or over 65, also for EU students up to 26. EU schoolteachers also have a discount, but don't forget to bring some document with you to prove you are such person. The Vatican Museums offer a discount for all the students under 26, the children under 18, but there is no discount for people over 65's.

 

The Coliseum on the inside, Rome, Italy

The Gold Ball in the courtyard of the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

Inside St.Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

There is one very interesting fact - every last sunday on the month everybody can enter for free in:

- The Vatican Museums

- The Sistine Chapel

- Capitoline Museums

- Trajan's Market

- The Pantheon - it is always free of crarge

The sunset seen from the Gianicolo Hill, Rome, Italy

Something that you have to be familiar with is The ROMA Pass. Click here to learn all about it.

Important tips about the transport in Rome - hop-on, hop-off tour buses, Italy Part 2

An open-air hop-on, hop-off tour bus, Rome, Italy

Something you have to be aware of when you go to Rome are the hop-on, hop-off tour buses. There are plenty of companies offering open-air tour buses. Reliable are the "110 open" and the "Archeobus". For example if you use "110 open" the ticket is valid 24 hours. It costs 24 euro, there are discounts for ROMA Pass holders and for children 6-12, 15 euro. The buses start the tour from Termini every 20 minutes, the whole tour takes two hours and works from 8.30am to 8.30pm.

More information about the hop-on, hop-off tour buses you can find here:
 http://www.trambusopen.com/it/home.cfm

The Coliseum/Colosseo/, Rome, Italy

The Coliseum on the inside, Rome, Italy

View to the St.Peter's Cathedral from Gianicolo Hill, Rome, Italy

Important tips about the public transport in Rome, Italy Part 1

The Trevi Fountain, Rome Italy

For those of you who like to travel well informed and travelling on a budget is good alternative, have to know many things. Among them the information and tips about public transport is very important. When you go to Rome you have to know:

National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, Rome, Italy

First - Rome has an integrated transport system. Tickets can be used for every transport - buses, metro and trams.The regular price is €1  and can are valid for 75 minutes after they are first stamped. During these 75 minutes you are free to use whatever combination of transport you want. Tickets can be bought from the newsstands, the tabacchi and at the metro stations.

Ruins of Domus Augustana on Palatin Hill, Rome, Italy

Second -You can buy yourself a 1-day pass for €4. It can be used from the moment the ticket is stamped until the midnight of the same day. There is also available a 3-day pass that costs €11. A 7-day pass costs €16.

Third - the Metro - The two line Metro system goes around the historic centre and in my opinion is really useful. In the moment there is a construction work on a third line. As it is not ready yet the main stops for the central sites are:

Spagna /Line A/ - for Piazza di Spagna, Villa Borghese
Ottaviano /Line A/ - for St.Peter's and Vatican Museums
Barberini /Line A/ - for the Trevi Fountain
Flaminio /Line A/ - for Piazza del Popolo, Villa Borghese
Colosseo /Line A/ - for Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill

The Coliseum/Colosseo/, Rome, Italy

See all the information about the hop-on, hop-off tour buses in the Part 2 of this article.

For the information about the ROMA Pass Click here.

Tips - find a hotel in Rome, Italy

Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Italy

Many of you may wonder where to stay when visiting Rome. Finding a nice hotel with good location may be very difficult and even annoying. I will try to make it easy for you and give you some links with great hotel info database that will really help you find what you search - a cheap hotel, a very good hotel, a hotel with great location, a hotel with awsome view or all af that in one according to your taste.

Statue of Neptune, Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy

List with links:

 http://www.rentalinrome.com/

http://www.eurobookings.com/search.html?q=rmcnf:1[2,0];dsti:3023;dstt:1;cur:EUR;sort:0_desc;frm:9;

St. Peter's Basilica /San Pietro/, Rome, Italy