Mega is a convenient application where there is all the necessary information about Rome: the main attractions, colorful places for a snack and an atmospheric romantic dinner, the main shops, markets and outlets, where to go with a child or go on your own for 1 day. All this works without the Internet and contains a map where everything you need is already marked. That's how the BlogoItaliano Rome Guide app works, which we released at the very end of 2017 for the iPhone and in April 2018 for Android.
New Type Guide
The idea of creating a mobile guide for BlogoItaliano came to me not in Italy. When you are well oriented on the terrain, you don’t think about it. Therefore, the idea was born during a trip to China.
Finding yourself in an unfamiliar place where almost no one speaks English, the signs are incomprehensible, the cities are huge, and access to the Internet is very limited, you realize how valuable and convenient it is to have all the information with you and not depend on anything.
You can surf the Internet as much as you like, read websites and get ready for the trip, but when you find yourself in an unfamiliar city for which you have 1-2 days, and access to the Internet is limited, you still become extremely helpless. And if neither you nor the local population speak English, then everything becomes even more complicated. In Italy, with English, by the way, also not very.
We felt for ourselves how important it is to have a convenient guide, and made it as for ourselves
A traveler who walks 10 km in unfamiliar areas in a new city in a day needs everything at once: the location of the main attractions, their mode of operation, ticket information, transportation, and much more ...
And if in a certain area of attractions there are 3, but not one, then how to navigate, which is more interesting. And if he came, is it closed there? Yes, and whether you need to watch them or better jump into the subway, drive a couple of stops and see something else.
- Where to eat?
- What if with a child?
- How to get from the airport?
The traveler has a ton of questions, and time for finding answers is limited. Especially in a city like Rome, where the sights are almost on every corner, but you want to see everything all at once. Of course, we all found ourselves in such a situation and somehow got out, but after watching something, how much we missed. Surely, you understand what I mean.
Therefore, to have something like an application where everything has already been worked out, it would be very cool. With this in mind, I flew from China to Italy, intending to create something new.
Everything important in Rome - in your smartphone
The work on the first BlogoItaliano mobile guide to Rome took several months, and at the very end of 2017, right on the eve of Catholic Christmas, the iPhone version appeared on the App Store (the Android version was released in April 2018).
I personally walked with him through the streets of the Eternal City to make sure that everything works and is convenient to use. Based on the results of this walk, we made several more improvements.
In total, the guidebook includes more than 220 places to go, what to see, where to eat and what to do. Moreover, for all the main places, an operating mode, information on tickets, as well as a schedule of how this or that object is interesting, are added.
In the mobile guide to Rome you will find the following sections:
- Sights of more than 60 main and little-known objects
- Shopping major shopping centers, markets, outlets
- Nearly 100 colorful places in the city center were served: cafes, restaurants, pizzerias, gelateria, aperitifs, species establishments
- Rome with children 12 places and ideas where to go with a child
- From Rome for 1 day 5 ready plans, where to go and how to get there
- Transport city transport, main stations, ways to get from the airports and the port of Civitavecchia to the center
- Recommended hotels A selection of the most noteworthy hotels in the center and around Fiumicino Airport
- Rome for months what to expect from Rome during your trip
But the most important thing is that all the places in the application integrated with online map, which is already inside and works without the Internet. When GPS is on, you can always see your location, what interesting places are nearby and how to get there. When using GPS mobile traffic is not consumed.
All objects of the guide are marked on an online map that works without the Internet.
But this is not all: in the application you can filter the display of objects in relation to the main attractions that will serve as landmarks. For example, if you are near the Trevi Fountain, you can easily find all the most important in the immediate vicinity. It is very convenient.
Finally, if desired, you can create your own favorites list, and only what is interesting to you will be displayed on the map.
How to set a guide
At the beginning of 2018, the Romeo BlogoItaliano mobile guide is already available on the App Store and can be installed by all iPhone and iPad users. You can install the application on this page.
As of April 20, the Android version has also appeared on Google Play. You can install it on your smartphone by this link.
| View the app on the App Store ››› |
| View the Android App ››› |
Issue price
You can download and try the Rome Mobile Guide for free, but it will have very limited functionality. Exclusively in order to see how everything works.
The full version of the guide costs only 379 rubles for users from different countries, there may be slight fluctuations due to exchange rates and features of the stores themselves. Of course, we could charge a higher price, and that would be justified. Moreover, those experts to whom we showed the application convinced us to make the cost higher.
But for us this is not so much a commercial project as a way to give the opportunity to as many people as possible to get to know one of the most interesting cities in the world much better and more comfortable. That is why we tried to make the price affordable for everyone.
It’s even cheaper than a cup of coffee in many far from elite Roman eateries, and the value is much higher than the price.
Install, activate and get a fundamentally different level of comfort when studying Rome.
| View the app on the App Store ››› |
| View the Android App ››› |
Yours sincerely,
Alex, author of BlogoItaliano
