Finding the way around hotels offers in Rome

The mission of Europelowcost.com lies in helping tourists to get acquaintant in the hotels offer in Rome. The genre "Guides of Rome" has an old history. If some volumes seek to tuck in the reader of vacations in a room of a hotel in Rome outstanding that which is more interesting, being almost a spiritual guide among the many possible emotions; other texts, like the famous About, have this almost wisdomlike character.

The first element that arises from this literature is the sense of happiness that Rome gives. This is a reason we find in Montaigne in the XVI Century, in Guez de Balzac in the XVII Century ("Non c'è che la vacanza a Roma dove la vita sia gradevole, dove il corpo trova la sua delizia e lo spirito la sua, dove si è alle sorgenti delle cose belle"), in Montesquieu in the XVIII Century ("Rome is a very pleasant stay. Everything amuses me. Stones seem to speak. You never stop watching "). Vacations, thanks to the offer of hotels in Rome, become almost a gentleman's duty after 1600. On  arriving to the hotels rooms  outsider find this feeling of solitude, especially if he arrives at night to a deserted city. But at dawn, in the morning when he walks out and by chance guides his steps to a back street and unexpectedly he ends up on a square like that of Fountain of Trevi, the space offer, monument features, happiness, movement, and sound of waters are for him an inexplicable surprise, worthy reward of his vacations in Rome.

Also those who were less likely to visit museums and collections, ends up conquered by the still of streets, the tranquility of hotel room itself, of patios, gardens, for the peace and the picturesque disorder where Baroque town-planning springs up spontaneously.

Returning from some hotel vacations with an image of Rome

The amount of artists and foreign dilettantes on vacations was large who came to Rome to make watercolors and still designs in the Foro, in the back streets and squares, in front of the Coliseum or the Pyramid, in the outdoors academy that Rome offered since early XVI Century, attempts of recapturing views which later they finished and colored in their own hotel.

There was a great offer of prints, consistent in a single and slight line, of the most famous views to work asw pattern to the vacationer who wanted to train his watercolor skills in his hotel room. The guides of the epoch illustrate the hotels offers in Rome, the cafes, the museums, the mosaic workshops, the gloves businesses, the most visible hotels, the artists´studios and in the second half of the century the stores of photographers, even the most suitable hours of the day, as for light conditions to take pictures of monuments or panoramas by thohse enjoying vacations in Rome. 

The “travel” literature, which appeared with the offer of hotels in Rome, reveals a wide spectrum of interests and feelings. From the fashion of diary of Roman vacations, we arrive to the «fictional diary», that is, it was not indeed written in Rome, but in the homeland on notes and memories (this is the case of Stendhal) where texts go deep into the different aspects of Roman society and its tradition.

If Rome was painted by tourists of vacations, it also happened that people of vacations became main character of designs and illustrations. This same tourism for its importance and animation of hotels offers in Rome, was dedicated to be a show and it was in fact object of illustration and caricatures. We have prints showing the arrival in Rome of stadewagons, the carnival of French Academy, the visit of tourists in the city, and hotels. Ghezzi´s caricatures fix in an inexhaustible iconográfico theater the images of so many residents and visitors, from Montesquieu to baron von Stosch. They are pictured while buying old coins, when they stood nose raised admiring monuments, when they receive visits in their hotels of Rome. Many visitors have a picture taken of themselves with the Coliseum as background or S. Pietro´s dome to have a memory of Rome of their grand tour, to show back home on their return to the hotel of Rome. An elite tourism arisen by the ample offer of hotels in Rome.

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