Getting Around Rome

City transportation tickets

Subway and buses can be used using the same tickets. Tickets can be bought at selling machines in each subway/train station and at selected bus stops using credit cards or cash, or at most newspaper kiosks and tobacconists.

Tickets of most interest for you are as follows:

• BIT (1.50 Eur), unlimited bus travelling within 100 minutes from first bus ride, including at most one subway (metro) journey. Remember to validate your ticket using the onboard/station machine on each bus/subway station.
• Roma 24H (7.00 Eur), unlimited bus/subway travelling for 24 hours (can be bought at newspaper kiosks and tobacconists). Remember to validate your ticket using the onboard/station machine on each bus/subway station.
• Roma 48H (12.50 Eur), unlimited bus/subway travelling for 48 hours (can be bought at newspaper kiosks and tobacconists). Remember to validate your ticket using the onboard/station machine on each bus/subway station.

Information about local transportation can be found on the ATAC (the local transportation company) website.

If you have a mobile Internet connection available, you can use Google Maps to plan your journeys, and also download the official app "Muoversi a Roma" (also in English) from ATAC (iOS and Android apps) to additionally have real-time waiting times at each bus stop.

If you plan to visit museums, have a look at Roma Pass, which also includes transportation.

Taxis

To call a taxi dial +39063570.

If you wish to pay by credit card, ask the operator a cab with a card reader. Price for an average journey within the city will be 15-30 Eur.

Social dinner

Social dinner will take place on Thursday 7 September 2017 at 20.30 at the following restaurant:

Ristorante Grano
Piazza Rondanini 53, Roma
Phone: +39 06 6819 2096
www.ristorantegrano.it
Google map

The restaurant is beautifully located in the historical centre, close to Montecitorio (Parliament), Pantheon and Piazza Navona.

You can reach the restaurant from the conference venue in the following ways:

• With a 35 minutes pleasant walk (of about 3 Km) passing by Via Veneto, Piazza Barberini and the Parliament, and with the possibility of short detours to Piazza di Spagna, Fontana di Trevi, Pantheon and Piazza Navona [Path on Google Maps];
• By taxi
• By bus: take bus n. 63 or 83, get off at stop named ``Corso/Minghetti'' (overall 9 stops) and walk for 500 m to Pantheon and then along via della Rosetta until the end of the street. The restaurant will be on the square at your left. Overall time: 20 minutes [These and other bus options on Google Maps]

Please remember to bring your social dinner voucher, printed on one side of your badge.