Guide book for Rome? Any recommendations?

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My Mum is going to Rome for 5 days at the end of March and I'd like to buy her a guidebook. Any good ones? Or ones to avoid? I have had a quick look on Amazon - Rough Guide seems the obvious choice, but there's a Dorling Kindersley one as well, Insight City Guide, Berlitz? Help!

I'm a big fan of Lonely Planet guide books, and that's what we used when we first went to Rome in 2003. We've been again since then, and the best thing we had was a pop-up map. There's no picture of it here but you can see a Venice one here to see what it's like. OK, so it's not a guide book, but it was brilliant to put in your pocket and refer to really quickly and easily.

The Dorling Kindersley one is really good.

One vote for Lonely Planet, one vote for DK I'll definitely get one of those maps, NN - a common theme of all the reviews of guide books is that the maps aren't that great (thanks for the links). Thanks both!

We used DK, really good.

DK

National Geographic. Don't usually use them, but the ones on Italian cities have proved to be excellent.

I agree Dorling Kindersley is good!