Rome Encounter 2（ISBN=9781741796810）

What will your Rome Encounter Be? Admiring the brush-clutching rebel, Caravaggio, at the Villa Borghese. Nibbling aperitivi and flaking out on funky furniture at Freni e Frizioni. Gazing into the Gallery of Mirrors in Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome's snack-sized Versailles. Locking lips, and padlocks, on the Ponte Milvio. Finding your inner fashionista on the streets of Monti. Getting into the counterculture groove in Rome's centri sociali (social centres). Discover Twice The City In Half The Time. Full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation. Our Italian author recommends the very best sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment. Unique itineraries and highlights help you plan the perfect short break in the Eternal City. Local experts reveal Rome's secrets.

Born in Melbourne to Italian parents, Cristian Boneto was raised on a healthy diet of polenta, panettone and stories of adolescent cruising in Fiat 500s. He still vividly remembers his first encounter with the 'motherland', bewitched at the thought of not needing to spell out his surname. It felt like meeting 57,000,000 long lost relatives. Smitten, the 21 year old backpacker got himself a Milanese address and spent the next two years of his life working on an intense love/hate relationship with Europe's sexiest boot. When not gorging on chocolate in Turin, competing against Latin lotharios in Naples or rubbing shoulders (literally) with Stefano Gabbana in Milanese bars, Cristian snapped and sipped his way across the continent in a chain of somewhat surreal moments, which included clubbing to Kylie Minogue at a hardcore anarchist bar in Bilbao. Not long after returning home to Australia to complete his Arts degree, he was back in Italy to document the tour of his play 'Il Cortile' (The Courtyard). Several trips and articles later, Cristian finally saw the light in 2006, ditched his gig as a TV soap scribe, and re-invented himself as a Lonely Planet vagabond. He now gets to taste test Sicilian ice-cream brioche in the name of research. Travel tip: Give Swedish pizza a miss.

THE AUTHOR
THIS IS ROME
HIGHLIGHTS
ROME DIARY
ITINERARIES
NEIGHBOURHOODS
SNAPSHOTS
>ACCOMMODATION
>ARCHITECTURE
>APERITIVO
>CONTEMPORARY ART
>SHOPPING
>MUSEUMS
>FOOD
>GAY & LESBIAN
>CENTRI SOClALI
>FOOTBALL
BACKGROUND
DIRECTORY
INDEX