Category: Travel and Tourism
Hi All,
After I went to Rome for eight days on vacation, I'd like to give some of the good stuff accessibility wise about the atractions. I visited the Vatican and the Capitoline meuseum and also a meuseum of Da Vinci's machinery. All these meuseums, contained a wide variety of sculptures which you were allowed to touch. Just ask and they'l let you. Also the Vatican and Capitoline meuseums feature Audio Guides, bits of history, like a guided tour. The buttons on the Audio Guide are labeled in Braille. Some of the sculptures have braille under them, detailing what they are. The Da Vinci Meuseum is completely tactile, but the signs are in print and are not brailled. The people at the front desk will help you with the signs if you ask. If you have a signted person with you, you can ask for them to read them as well. Travel wise, Most of the roads are very well pved aand are easy to navigate. There are a large amount of Smart cars and Motorcycles about. The people are very friendly, and it helps to know a little Italian. Most of them do understand english though.
Food wise, the experience differs drastically. Some of the restaurants in the guide book my family used were excellent, while others were repulsive. I'd recommend searching around for reviews of decent places on the net. Sadly I don't know what the good restaurants were called.
Overall, Rome is a great place, and I hope to return there someday. It is very blind-friendly and accessible to us.
I hope this has been helpful.
Matthew
Also there is a Villa, Villa Borghese, with a large park around it where you can picnic, rent rowboats, two person bikes motorcycles, etc. The prices are cheap the the experience is rather enjoyable. I would reccommend having a sighted person with you, since the park is rather large, and if you's like to go on a bike, boate, etc, I'd reccommend a sighted person being with you. On the other hand, if you have some vision, then you'l probably not need a sighted person if you want to rent a bike etc. This also depends on the amount of vision you have.
Hope this helps anyone who is planning a trip to, or wishes to go to Rome.
Matthew