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Excerpt from A Handbook of Rome and the Campagna This Handbook is in three parts Directory, Introduction, and Routes. The Directory contains thirty-eight pages of practical infor mation concerning hotels, lodgings, cabs, money, shops, &c with a vocabulary for diners at restaurants, an article on the climate of Rome, a suggested itinerary of the most important sights for hurried travellers, and a list of the hours at which galleries and museums are open. To this edition has been added full particulars concerning the journey to Rome - the various routes across the Channel and the Continent, the expense of a ticket, the best trains, the time occupied, sleeping cars, and through carriages, the points at which dining-cars are attached to the train, where luggage is examined, 850. The sea voyage to Genoa or Naples is also described, with fares, duration, 850. The very large amount of practical information contained in the Directory is frequently revised and re-issued, thus keeping this important part of the Handbook always up to date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.