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Showing posts with label Utilities. Show all posts

The Roma Pass

For only 23 Euro get benefits and services across the city. Promoted by Rome Council, the Culture Ministry and working in conjunction with public transport the cit's tourist card offers discounts and services which make museum visits easier. Enjoy the beauty of Rome with greater ease.
From 1 January 2009 the Roma Pass kit will offer even more! In the New Year you’ll also receive health care and access to the city’s bike sharing scheme. You already get free access to your first two museums or archaeological sites, free movement on the entire public transport network and reductions on entrance to other museums, exhibitions, shows or dance productions that take your fancy. Moreover, to get even more from your card we have recently added “Travel Health.” It allows tourists to access a dedicated health assistance service for first aid advice and direction to either private or public structures according to your needs and condition.
The pass lasts 3 days after stamping it, costs 23 euro but offers services that a worth over 40 Euro and at all sites and events you have preferential access.
Roma Pass is available at: • All Museums and Sites participating• Rome Council Tourist Information Points • Rome Tourist Promotion Company - APT - Via Parigi, 5 • Bioparco - Rome Zoological Garden• Complesso del Vittoriano• Trambus Open - Piazza dei Cinquecento
Included in your pack are:• Roma Pass Transport: Your public transport ticket.• Roma MAP: The map shows you the Tourist Information Kiosks (PITs), metro stations, museums/sites with address, telephone number and bus, metro, coach and train numbers with timetables.• Roma Pass Guide: The list of museums/sites in the scheme.• Roma & Più News: The programme of events and tourism services for which discounts are valid and where they apply by category: art, music, theatre, dance, entertainment and public transport.
Roma Pass
How to Use itFill in the back with your name and surname. Activate it with your first visit to a site/museum by adding the date of that visit. For the second site show your card at the entrance. From the third site onwards go to the ticket office to receive your discount. You must always carry the card with legal ID. The card expires 3 calendar days from activation.
Roma & Pass TransportFree access to ATAC buses, metro lines A and B, Met.Ro trains, Rome – Osita Lido, Rome - Viterbo (Rome - Sacrofano section), Rome - Pantano.
How to Use itThe card is exclusively available with Roma & Più Pass and is valid for three zones and for an unlimited number of journeys. You activate it on the first trip by filling in your name, surname and stamping it with date and the code of the area of validity (zone A or zone B). Show it when boarding together with an identity document if requested by staff. It expires at midnight on the third calendar day of use.
Roma Pass Travel Health MET
Health assistance service for the first level of intervention and response.
Related Costs:
- the service is free to possessors of the Roma Pass.
- telephoning the Medical Call Centre is based on the local telephone rates.
How it works:
- the number to call is +39 06 83496311 (at the local rate)- it is a multilingual Call Center (English, French or Spanish). - it registers the referral code from the Roma Pass.- provides all the information needed for the case and directs the tourist, when necessary, to the public and private healthcare facilities based an the pathology predented.- The service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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Transport for Rome

Two lines of Metro in Rome, 48 stations for a rail network of 36 km. A bus network of 2800 units for 350 different routes and then trams and regional trains. Not a bad range for the Roman public transport, numbers that are showing slow improvements but certainly have a "long way" still to do for a capital such of Rome with 2.8 million inhabitants and with over 20 million visitors a year.
Here you find some informations about the public lines wich you may need in Rome:

Subway has two lines: Metro A (marked by red) and Metro B (marked by blue), the logo of a white "M" on red background indicates the presence of a subway stop.
The two lines intersect in "Termini" Central station, the main hub of all public transports, local and regional. The Metro A has 27 stations through the capital from South-East to North-West, the gates are open at 05.30 and the service usually ends at 23:30 from Monday to Thursday and on Sunday, while ends at 1:30 on Friday and on Saturday. The timetable is just the same for the line B that with its 22 stations goes from South to North-East of Rome. Both of Metro run approximately every 3-5 minutes.

Buses and trams work from 5:30 am until midnight, from 00.30 until 5:30 am instead working more than 20 nigh lines, whose terminals are in Termini (Piazza del Cinquecento) and in Piazza Venezia.
The night bus stops are marked with an "N" and with the symbol of an owl, the tickets can be purchased directly on board. Tickets are the same for bus, tram and subway, can be purchased at any tobacconist and newspapers store or at the automatic machines inside any subway stations. Remember to buy your ticket before getting on buses because not all of them are equipped with tichet machines.
The cost of one ticket is 1 euro and it is valid for 75 minutes on buses and trams, and for a single run on subway, wherever you go. There is the chance to buy daily ticket at the price of 4euros, 3days ticket at 11euros and weekly ticket at 16euros.
For all the tourist facilities,discount cards and other details, take a look to the official website of Roman Public Transport.
Good journey in Rome!

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Riding in Rome

It is not legal for most people to drive around in the city center of Rome during weekdays and part of the weekend. This is what an official website says:

"Monday through Friday from 6.30 to 18.00 and Saturday from 14.00 to 18.00 you are not allowed to drive to downtown Rome, unless you are a resident or you are granted a special permission". "Limited Traffic Zone" (Z.T.L. in Italian), have been equipped with electronic access detection devices, which are able to detect and record illegal access of vehicles. This electronic access detection system "reads" the plate numbers of vehicles illegally accessing the Zone and the vehicle owners will receive a fine at home.

Romans know that move around the city by car is not the simplest thing, and they know too the best way to move around Rome is the scooter.

Young, older, women, pensioners, business men, politicians, for deliveries and who need to move around the city for work, more and more people prefer the comfort and convenience of the scooter in a city traffic as Rome.


Even for the Tourist, in my opinion, a two-wheels is the best way to admire Rome.
With a 50cc scooter as a Vespa, you can go anywhere, there are not "Limited Traffic Zone" and you can park anywhere. Colosseum, St. Peter, Circus Maximum, Caracalla, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Piazza Venezia, Fori Imperiali, Olimpic Stadium, all the main sites of the city you can easily reach with a scooter. You just need a driving license of your own country and ride on it, is even allowed to go in two. You don't worry if you have not ever driven,it is very easy and you will enjoy a lot this experience.There are many rent-scooter in town, one reliable and cheap I suggest is just outside the train Termini station, with 37 euro you get a scooter for 24h.

http://www.trenoescooter.com/

Admire the bridges of Rome by night with the scooter is a feeling that still make me emotions.

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Useful numbers in Rome

Here I let for you some telephone numbers and advices that could be useful during your stay in Rome.
First to remember:
Italy code number: 0039
Rome code number: 06
For calls from Rome to Rome must always enter the city code (06), bu do not need to enter the country code (0039), hence for each call made to a fixed line need to enter the city code.

Rome Radio Taxy:
06 3570 - 06 8822 - 06 4994 - 06 6645 - 06 6696
Rome Buses: 0557003
Trains Station Termini:
Piazza dei Cinquecento, infoline 892021
Rome Airports:
Fiumicino "Leonardo da Vinci": 06 65951,
Ciampino: 06 794941
Safety:
Police Emergency Service: 113
Carabinieri: 112
Fire Service: 115
Rome Police Headquaters: 06 46861
Thefts should be reported at the nearest police or Carabinieri station.
Healt Emergency
Health Emergencies: 118
Red Cross Ambulance: 06 5510
First Aid Station: 06 58201030
Motorways:
Italian Automobile Club roadside Assistence: 116
Motorway management company: 80042121
Rome Tourist Call Center Info: 06 0608

If you have to stay in Rome for long period, I recommend to buy a prepaid calling card, it costs 5 euros with 5 euros of telephone traffic included working right at the moment.

In my opinion the best Telephone Company is "Wind Infostrada", the phone shots are counted per second not per minute, has a very good signal and prices.

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