Rome Encounter 2（ISBN=） 英文原版

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