Phone calls from Rome
The most convenient way to call from the capital Italy - with the help of taxophones, which are installed everywhere here: to find them can be on the street, and in any kind of cafes type. Call payment occurs with coins or phone card - Scheda Telefonica. These cards are worth 1 euros, as well as 2.5, 5 and 7.5. They are sold in tobacco kiosks, stalls with press, in hotels and the same cafe. The card is activated only when its upper left edge leaves. The telephone boards indicate emergency rooms.
Here they are: Police telephone: "112", ambulance: "113", fire protection: "115", automotive technical assistance: "116", emergency medical care: "118".
Phone code Italy: "+39", and its capitals - "06". When calls to local rooms require a set of city code. In Rome, the city number can have from four to eight digits. You can make an international call using any street payphone; For example, to contact the subscriber in Russia, you must score the code of this country: "007", after which - the city code and the number of your subscriber.
If the duration of stay in the country exceeds two weeks, then it will be more profitable for you to purchase a local SIM card, so as not to pay for the roaming service from your operator. For example, a SIM card from the company Wind: There is such a ten euros, and five euros will already be on the bill. To purchase SIM cards will need to present a passport.
Post offices of Rome
The main map is located on the square. San Silvestro; Schedule: From Monday to Friday, it opens at 08:00, it works until 20:00; on Saturday closes at 12:00; Weekend - Sunday. Another postage operating on the same schedule is located on Termini Square. All other post offices of Rome has a schedule of work - up to 14 hours (except Saturday, on this day, the department is open to noon). Postage stamps can be bought in a stall selling press or cigarettes, or in the hotel. The Vatican has its own special postal service that works better than everyone else; However, the brands of such mail can only be bought in the territory of this dwarf state.
Internet access
There is no shortage of the Internet cafe in the city, however, the prices of them are quite high: in an hour of accessing the network you will be taken at least three euros. As an exception, it can only be called one more or less affordable institution, which is located on Barberini Square. It is called "EasyeVeryThing"; An hour of work on the Internet costs 1.5-2.5 euros here (the price depends on the time of day).
About security
The capital of Italy, as neither regrettable, is distinguished by the abundance of pocket thieves. These gentlemen are industrial on all types of transport heading for the Vatican. Only it is worth a tourist a little glance at the sight of the beautiful sights of the ancient city, it can be drowned immediately. In particular, it constitutes a problem on such bus lines: No. 64, No. 640, as well as in the metro - on the line "A" (namely, on the segment of the way from the station "Termini" to the Vatican).
Show caution not only in transport passing next to the historic sights of Rome, however, and directly next to them. To steal here in many places: it happened not only next to the Coliseum, in luxurious boutiques on Spanish Square or in the Sistine Chapel ... Roman Bandyug does not stop even such a place as St. Peter's Cathedral! If you wish, you will succeed in identifying "workers" of this sphere: this is a often a group consisting of minors, along with its leaders - Mama with a child in his arms. But the composition of the group of pockets, of course, is not always the same, there may be different options. Remember the main thing - when such personalities will try to communicate with you, you do not need to succumb to their tricks and listen to these guys at all, you just need to continue to go our own way. Women their handbag is best hanging on the shoulder - to avoid trouble with motorcyclist robbers; This rule also concerns expensive photo and video equipment.
Change currency is only where you are sure that you do not "inflate" with the Commission, because it can sometimes be up to ten percent! It is best to produce these operations in the exchangers at Termini Station, on the squares of Spain, Venice and on the square with a fountain of Trevi.
You can always get answers to your questions in the tourism bureau, which is just Uyma in the capital of Italy. There you will have the necessary information assistance: they will give a map of Rome, the programs of performances, speeches and various other events (for a week or a month ahead) will supply advertising booklets with an announcements of events in the city. Often, thanks to this booklet, you have the right to use some discounts in certain institutions - in commercial or catering, so do not neglect similar "pieces". In addition, in the travel bureau, a foreigner will still have assistance in booking a hotel. As I said, the number of tourist offices in the capital of Italy is just huge; They have a specific pointer - a sign with a letter "I". Usually such a company is a separate kiosk painted in a dark green color. Work schedule: from 9 am to seven in the evening.
The number of tourist reference in Rome: "06 36 00 43 99", there is still another: "06 06 06". This service is available every day from 09:00 to 19:00.
For visitors from the Russian Federation will be useful to know Address of Russian Embassy In the capital of Italy: Via Gaeta 5. Contact number: "06 494 16 81".
Here's another Numbers of different emergency medical services in Rome:
Phone of the Italian medical cross CROCE MEDICA ITALIANA: "06.23231333"; tel. Italian Red Cross Croce Rossa Italiana: "06.5510"; Contact the organization of the new Red Cross Rome Nuova Croce Rosa Romana by calling "06.30814791"; Ambulance in Rome Roma Soccorso: "06.87149815".
Have a nice and relaxing journey in the eternal city!