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Italy - Rome, Florence, Bologna, San Marino and Venice

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hangchoi:
This Easter we went to Italy. I had been in Rome, Florence and Venice for a few days in 2006. There is a legend that if you throw a coin in the Fontana di Trevi, you will be back to Rome one day. My wife did that in 2006 and hence, she maybe made the legend happened this time.

Our route was to enter Italy at Rome, travel northward, and leave Italy at Venice. We took Qatar Airways and it is almost a must that we had to transit at Doha airport, which is good for us because we have not been in Doha before and we are happy to have a break in between a long flight. Later we found that if you have a long transit time in Doha, you can book their city tour free of charge and they will take you out to the Doha city to have a tour. What you need to do is to go to their customer desk and make the booking, and as long as you inform them your flight time, they will bring you back to airport. We should really give it a go next time.

hangchoi:
Doha air port is huge and beautiful. Big arrival and departure halls, it is so big that they build a monorail inside the terminal. It operates 24 hours a day with good hang-out areas, accessible food and beverage counters, big duty free shops with lots of wine, spirits and cigars.

hangchoi:
There are 3 landmarks for this airport which are good meeting points for groups. We just found 2 of them as our transit time was only about 2 hours. The first landmark is a bear lamp and the second one is a metal robot for kids. You can see how big they are.

hangchoi:
We arrived Roma at the Leonardo da Vinci Airport. The most convenient way to go to Rome is by express train. The name of the train is called "Leonardo Express". It took about 35 minutes from airport to the main transportation hub of Rome, the Roma Termini station.

I strongly recommend that you stay close to Roma Termini if your trip will go to more than 1 cities of Italy. Roma Termini is the main train station of Rome, it is also the transit station of metro of Rome and it has a large bus terminal too. You can go to any tour spots by a single traffic here.

hangchoi:
We took an evening flight and arrived at Rome in the morning. We dropped our bags at the hotel, which was close to Roma Termini, and started our journey.

Over 75% of the tour spots in Rome are confined between the east side of the Tiber river and Roma Termini, all in walking distance too.

We walked toward the Colosseo area and our route passed by the Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli. People go to Rome and rush to St. Peter Church to see the Pieta made by Michelangelo. But the fact is that sculptures made by Michelangelo can easily be seen in many places. We went to Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli because it has a huge sculpture by Michelangelo. This church opens one hour earlier than the Colosseo, hence you can fit it into your schedule without affecting your schedule to the Colosseo (you will know why you should go to Colosseo at the earliest possible later)

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