the Regía dei Tabácchi, Corso Umberto Primo 241, corner of the
Piazza Sciarra; also foreign cigars; English tobacco 4 fr. per ¼ lb.
c. Post and Telegraph Offices. Tourist Agencies.
Carriages. Saddle Horses. Motor-Cars. Cycles.
Post Office (comp. p. xxv), Piazza di San Silvestro (Pl. I,
18; p. 229; also entered from Via della Vite), open from 8 a.m.
to 9.30 p.m.; Poste Restante letters ('ferma in posta') are delivered
at several windows for the different initials under the arcades in
the court, on the right. At the entrance (on the right) is a writing-
room. Parcels are delivered at Via della Vite 37 (9-6). — Branch
Offices: at the Hôtel Continental, opposite the Railway Station
(open till midnight; the letter-boxes at the rail. station, Viale
Principessa Margherita 21-29, at the corner, are cleared ¼ hr. be-
fore the departure of the principal express trains), Via Fontanella
di Borghese 68, Via della Stamperia72, Via San Niccolò da Tolen-
fine 24, Via Venti Settembre 123 (War Ministry, to the right), Via
Sant' Eustachio 25, Via Cavour 359-363, Piazza Rusticucci 35-36, Via
del Babuino 150, Via Ludovisi 29-33, etc. (open 8-8). — The letter-
boxes for city-letters are painted dark green, the others being red.
Telegraph Office (comp. p. xxvi), open day and night, in the
General Post Office, Piazza di San Silvestro (Pl. I, 18; p. 229).
Branch Offices: Via Venti Settembre 123, Piazza Rusticucci 35-36.
and at the railway-station (open 8-8).
Tourist Agencies (with ticket-offices). Thomas Cook & Son,
Piazza di Spagna 1 b and Piazza delle Terme 54; Associazione
Nazionale Italiana per il Movimento dei Forestieri (strangers'
enquiry office), Corso Umberto Primo 372-373, on the groundfloor
of the Credito Italiano (p. 229); Agenzia Chiari-Sommariva, in
the palace of the Assicurazioni Generali Venezia (p. 232); Ad.
Roesler-Franz & Figli, Via Condotti 20; International Sleeping
Car Co.,Piazza di San Silvestro 93. - Steamboat Agencies.
Cunard Co., Piazza di Spagna 49; Orient-Royal,Piazza di
Spagna 49 (French, Lemon & Co.); Peninsular and Oriental Co.,
Thomas Cook & Son (see above); North German Lloyd, Corso Um-
berto Primo 395-396; Hamburg- America Line,Corso Umberto
Primo 399; Navigazione Generale Italiana, Corso Umberto
Primo 419-421, corner of Via Tomacelli.
Ladies' International Bureau (for hiring servants, etc.), Piazza
di Spagna 59.
Omnibuses, Tramways and Cabs, see Appendix.
Carriage Hirers. Belli, Via della Stolletta 5; Ciocca, Piazza San
Claudio 95; Riot, Piazza Barberini 25; Palombi, Via Bocca di Leone 42;
Jacchini, Via Belsiana 8. Charges vary according to the season, but the
average may be placed at 30 fr. a day. The best carriages are obtained
at the larger hotels, where, however, the charge is sometimes as high
as 50 fr. a day. Gratuity to the coachman extra. — Saddle Horses.
Vine. d'Angelo & Co., Viale Castro Pretorio 98-100; Jarrett, Piazza del