Lonely Planet 'snubs' the Colosseum and ranks it 7th

(AGI) Rome, Aug. 18 - The latest edition of the "UltimateTravelist", ranking the 50 places that travellers "MUST SEE"posted by the users of the Lonely Planet, the 'Bible' ofplanetary tour guides, has a bitter surprise in store forItaly, although it also leaves some doubts as to the readers'tastes. To find anything Italian on the list you have to godown to seventh place - the position of what was once the iconof collective imagination: the Colosseum, also known as theFlavian Amphitheatre, which is cited on its own, with nomention to the city of Rome that hosts it. The tastes of moderntravellers, in the era of apps and the internet, have evidentlychanged - not only compared to the tastes of the offspring ofwell-to-do families who took a 'Grand Tour' through Italybetween 1660 and 1840, but also to the children of bourgeoisfamilies who toured the world equipped with the unmistakablered-cover guide by German publisher Karl Baedeker, which wasfirst published in 1827 and which, at that time, gavepreference to the 'Boot', even if it had not been united yet. . .