Rick Steves Pocket Rome

Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Rome:

• City walks and tours: Six detailed self-guided walks showcase Rome’s essential sights, including the Colosseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Vatican Museums, plus recommendations for each neighborhood
• Rick’s strategic advice on what’s worth your time and money
• What to eat and where to stay: Grab a quick lunch of pizza al taglio, people-watch as you sip wine on a sunny piazza, and savor a multi-course meal at a neighborhood enoteca
• Day-by-day itineraries to help you prioritize your time
• A detailed, detachable fold-out map, plus museum and city maps throughout
• Full-color, portable, and slimfor exploring on the go
• Trip-planning practicalities like when to go, how to get around, basic Italian phrases, and more

Lightweight, yet packed with valuable insight into Rome’s history and culture, Rick Steves Pocket Rome truly is a tour guide in your pocket.

Spending more than a week in the city? Try Rick Steves Rome! Expanding your trip? Try Rick Steves Rome, Florence & Venice.

• "The country's foremost expert in European travel for Americans."

  Forbes

• "Steves is an absolute master at unlocking the hidden gems of the world's greatest cities, towns, and monuments."

  USA Today

• “Every country-specific travel guidebook from the Rick Steves publishing empire can be counted upon for clear organization, specificity and timeliness."

  Society of American Travel Writers

• "Pick the best accommodations and restaurants from Rick Steves…and a traveler searching for good values will seldom go wrong or be blindsided."

  NBC News

• "…his books deserve to be in the pop-history canon. Steves possesses a surprisingly strong authorial voice, one that permeates through the expected contrivances of a typical guidebook."

  Slate

• "His guidebooks are approachable, silly, and even subtly provocative in their insistence that Americans show respect for the people and places they are visiting and not the other way around."

  The New Yorker

• "Travel, to Steves, is not some frivolous luxury—it is an engine for improving humankind, for connecting people and removing their prejudices, for knocking distant cultures together to make unlikely sparks of joy and insight. Given that millions of people have encountered the work of Steves over the last 40 years, on TV or online or in his guidebooks, and that they have carried those lessons to untold other millions of people, it is fair to say that his life’s work has had a real effect on the collective life of our planet."

  The New York Times Magazine

• "[Rick Steves] laces his guides with short and vivid histories and a scholar's appreciation for Renaissance art yet knows the best place to start an early tapas crawl in Madrid if you have kids. His clear, hand-drawn maps are Pentagon-worthy; his hints about how to go directly to the best stuff at the Uffizi, avoid the crowds at Versailles and save money everywhere are guilt-free."

  TIME Magazine

• "Steves is a walking, talking European encyclopedia who yearns to inspire Americans to venture 'beyond Orlando.'"

  Forbes

• “…he’s become the unofficial guide for entire generations of North American travelers, beloved for his earnest attitude and dad jeans."

  Outside Magazine

• "His books offer the equivalent of a bus tour without the bus, with boiled-down itineraries and step-by-step instructions on where to go and how to get there, but adding a dash of humor and an element of choice that his travelers find empowering."

  The New York Times

• "His penchant for creating meaningful experiences for travelers to Europe is as passionate as his inclination for making ethical choices his guiding light."

  Forbes

• "[Rick Steves'] neighborhood walks are always fun and informative. His museum guides, complete with commentary about historic sculpture and storied artworks are wonderful and add another dimension to sometimes stodgy, hard-to-comprehend museums."

  NBC News