The latest news about Rome is that the city is now in the yellow zone. There are still lots of public transport problems, but also some new exhibitions (Damian Hirst) and plans to remove the famous Roman cobblestones from some streets and reuse them in other ones.
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Appia Antica Card, 4 Museum Card and Capitolini Card Rome
Apart from the better known Omnia Rome & Vatican Card and the Roma Pass, there are also some smaller museum passes in Rome. These encompass a smaller selection of museums and/or archaeological sites.
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The country code for Italy is +39. Phone numbers do not all have the same number of digits, so do not be surprised when someone gives you a very short number. Cell phone numbers start with the number 3 and always have 10 digits. If you are calling to a land line in Italy the city code will start with a 0 (zero). In case you are calling from outside Italy you will usually have to leave off that initial zero.
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Getting from the Rome airport of Fiumicino to the budget airport of Ciampino or vice versa will most of the time be quite complicated, since it means getting from whichever one of the two airports you arrive at to Roma Termini first and then going to the second airport.
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The ORP – Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi, loosely translated as Roma Pilgrim Office, is a branch of the Vicariate of Rome, organ of the Holy See directed by the Cardinal Vicar of the Pope.
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There are several famous music venues in the Rome, from the Auditorium Parco della Musica for the big established names to the Circolo degli Artisti for the unknown indie rock bands and from the Teatro dell’Opera to Alexanderplatz, Rome’s best known jazz venue.
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