Going to Rome. Guide to accessible city E-Book

Graphofeel

• Herausgeber: Graphofeel
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Going to Rome is a guide to the Eternal City designed for tourists with special needs. User-friendly, it includes churches, monuments, museums but also restaurants, hotels, and coffee bars that are accessible to the less mobile and to individuals with sensory disabilities. Thoroughly updated, the guide also offers dedicated sections to the city’s latest cultural and artistic attractions and entertainment venues. Going to Rome is an essential tool for people with disabilities visiting Rome.

Leseprobe

Going to Rome is a guide to the Eternal City designed for tourists with special needs. User-friendly and entirely bilingual (all texts are in Italian and English), it includes churches, monuments, museums but also restaurants, hotels, and coffee bars that are accessible to the less mobile and to individuals with sensory disabilities. Thoroughly updated, the guide also offers dedicated sections to the city’s latest cultural and artistic attractions and entertainment venues. Going to Rome is an essential tool for people with disabilities visiting Rome.

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ISBN 978-88-97381-53-2

Based on the printed issue: 978-88-97381-51-8

Cover: Francesco Sanesi

Credits

Concept: Andrea Engl; Editorial board: Lina Di Lembo, Andrea Engl, Giulia La Face, Fiorella Magrin, Laura Pacelli, Antonio Perri, Domenico Trimarco; English translations: Patrizia Vigliotti (Preface), Elda Zanatta (How to get to Rome, Getting around in Rome); eBook designer: Giovanni Caprioli.

Any tourist guide is an open-ended book. If you find mistakes or inaccuracies, but also if you like to make us suggestions or remarks, please write at:[email protected]

Going to Rome

A guide to the accessible city

Table of Contents

Preface

Going to Rome by train

Trenitalia

The Blue Hall (Sala Blu)

Services for travellers in wheelchairs

Italo

Going to Rome by plane

Fiumicino Airport

Departures, transits and arrivals

Tactile routes and maps

Special services

Ciampino Airport

Tactile maps and patways

Going to Rome by car

Getting around in the city

Private cars

Public transport: buses and metro

Surface public transport on rail: metropolitan railways

Taxi

Legenda

Historical notes about Rome

St. Peter’s Cathedral

Vatican Museums

Colosseum

Trajan’s Markets and Forums Museum

Palatine Hill

Roman Forum

Balbi Crypt

Altar of the Fatherland

Capitol Square

Capitoline Museums

Mouth of Truth

Great Synagogue and Jewish Museum

Marcellus Theater

Tiberina Island

Palazzo Altemps

Palazzo Braschi (Museum of Rome)

Spada Gallery

Palazzo Madama

Pantheon

Piazza Navona

Campo de’ Fiori Square

Pasquino’s Square

Palazzo Barberini

Palazzo del Quirinale

Scuderie del Quirinale

Palazzo Chigi

Palazzo Montecitorio

Trevi Fountain

Ara Pacis’ Museum

Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto

Piazza del Popolo

Trinità dei Monti

Piazza di Spagna

Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore

Baths of Diocletian

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Rome Opera House

Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Cathedral of San Pietro in Vincoli

Borghese Gallery

National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art

Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum

MAXXI. Museum of the 21st Century Arts

Bio Park

Explora Children’s Museum

Macro Via Nizza

Music Park Auditorium

Cathedral of Santa Maria in Trastevere

Corsini Gallery

Villa Farnesina

Porta Portese Flea Market

Janiculum hill

Fontanone dell’Acqua Paola

Orange Tree Garden

Cathedral of Santa Sabina

Cathedral of San Giovanni in Laterano

Holy Stairs and Sancta Sanctorum

Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem

Macro La Pelanda

Cathedral of San Paolo fuori le Mura

Pyramid of Cestius

National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Pigorini”

Museum of Arts and Folk Traditions

Cinecittà Studios

Where to eat

Restaurants

Fast Food

Where to stay

Hotels

Bed & Breakfast

Cinemas with facilities

Hospitals

Useful telephone numbers

Preface

Going to Rome is a short and compact guide to the Eternal City designed for tourists with special needs. The volume is written in two languages, Italian and English, and the information provided is updated to November 2015. Further revisions and amendments will be made available on a section of the Publisher’s website: www.graphofeel.com

Far from being an exhaustive guide to the countless treasures and masterpieces of Roman art and architecture, the book will only include those sites that are accessible to persons with motor and sensorial impairments, as well as useful information to help them plan their visit.

The guide is divided into three sections. Section one gives general information about the city and the public transportation network; section two provides a short and essential description of tourist sites, that are divided into zones and itineraries suitable for impaired tourists. Section three includes a range of hotels, restaurants and coffee shops accessible to individuals with motor impairments.

The idea behind this guide was to make the city of Rome and its fascinating attractions accessible to everyone.

Rome nowadays is a multiracial and multilingual European capital with more than 3 million inhabitants. The historical centre and the huge suburban areas are connected by an intricate maze of streets and roads. Originally built on seven separate hills, Rome’s city centre is paved with small cubes of porphiry (the so-called sampietrini) that make the path of people in wheelchair extremely rough. Therefore, visitors with mobility problems may find it difficult to access the Eternal City’s cultural and artistic attractions. Besides, visitors and tourists on short trips have to make tough decisions about where to go and what to see, knowing that they will have to move throughout a complicated network of narrow streets and busy roads. However, Rome in constantly improving its accessibility provisions: sidewalks are often equipped with slipways and special paths for blind people are available in central areas. The main museums and some monuments provide further facilities for impaired people: free entrance, wheelchairs specifically designed for the visit, dedicated guides using sign language for the hearing impaired or deaf people and audioguides for the visual impaired and blind people.

Finally, we have heard in a recent news that within December 8th, with the beginning of Jubilee year, at the 10 Roman PIT (Touris Information Points) will appear for the first time the tablets of E.lisir system: this new device will provide deaf tourists with information in LIS (Italian Sign Language), thanks to a virtual assistant video-connected through the web who will answer the questions of the user.

Enjoy your trip!