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•   Editorial // Jul 30th 2008 at 3:16pm

  Update Blue Guide Rome - new museums / sites May 2008:
  “Rome’s illustrious repetoire of museums has been enhanced recently by the opening of the new Museum of the Imperial Fora. This is housed in magnificant setting of the so-called Trajan’s Markets . . .” See the whole article in Minerva Magazine.

•   Editorial // Aug 1st 2008 at 9:29am

  Update Blue Guide Rome - new museums / sites May 2008:
  “The House of Augustus reopened in Rome . . . the section of the Palatine Hill associated with the domestic and religious complex inaugurated by Augustus.” See the whole article in Minerva Magazine.

•   Brendan Somes // Sep 25th 2008 at 4:48pm

  Re: the Palazzo Farnese (Blue Guide Rome, 9th ed., p.302) it is open to the public on specified days. The Guide states that it is not open. I have been able to arrange a visit to the Palazzo by contacting the French Embassy in Rome.

•   Pausanias // Oct 26th 2008 at 4:44pm

  Tickets for the Forum and Colosseum

  Although access to the Roman Forum was free when Blue Guide Rome was published (p61), this appears to be no longer the case: you have to buy a ticket covering the Roman Forum, the Palatine Hill and the Colosseum for around €12 (I say around, there seem to be differences depending on where you come from, and there is a charge included which you don’t seem to be able not to pay for the special “exhibition” whatever and wherever that is).

  To avoid the long lines for the Colosseum, buy your ticket at the Forum and do that first; anyway it is a nicer walk through the Forum to the Colosseum if you’re coming from the Capitoline Hill direction than along the street and it costs no more. The advantage is that when you get to the Colosseum you’ve already got the ticket and can go straight in.

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