SS Lazio Official Lazio website - http://www.sslazio.it/cms/view Tickets - Buy directly from the Stadio Olimpico box office, the Lazio shop near Termini station in Via Farini, or from one of the many other sales points throughout the city displaying the Lottomatica logo. Tickets are also available online through http://www.listicket.it/ . And remember, due to new Italian anti-hooligan laws, on the day of the match you'll need some form of ID matching the name on the ticket in order to gain entry to the stadium. Stadium - The iconic 82,000 seat Stadio Olimpico is located 2-3 miles north of the city centre and a nightmare to get to and from on matchdays. Take metro line A to Flaminio station, then hop on the 'tram per lo Stadio Olimpico', by which time you should have thousands of others doing likewise for company. Traffic snarls up badly, so getting a taxi from central Rome on a matchday can be counter-productive. Ultra Culture - Lazio's support is traditionally right-wing and drawn from Rome's wealthy Parioli and Prati districts and the surrounding countryside. Their end of the Olimpico is the Curva Nord, and their extreme right-wing ultras - the Irriducibili - are amongst the most feared in Italy.
ROME
Overview - Rome's vast selection of ancient monuments are astonishing and world-renowned, but it's the city's football clubs who are the modern day gladiators, slugging it out at the Stadio Olimpico in one of the fiercest cross-city rivalries in Europe. For weekenders, fantastic nightlife and shopping add to the mix, in one of the great cities of the world in which to spend a few days. Airports & Transfers - Fiumicino Airport - 20 miles south of the city, linked by trains taking 30 minutes every half an hour. Tickets cost 10 Euros. Taxis are approx. 40 Euros. Ciampino Airport - 12 miles south-east of the centre, linked by Terravision buses, taking 30 minutes at a cost of 8 Euros. Taxis approx. 30 Euros. Nightlife - For flat-out bars and clubs head to the Testaccio district, the gritty former home of AS Roma and now the centre of Rome's most fervent nightlife. On the other side of the River Tiber you'll find the atmospheric streets and alleyways of Trastevere teeming with busy but friendly watering holes, whilst back in the centro storico, Campo de' Fiori is a lively bar-lined piazza perfect popular with foreign students. If you're staying close to Termini station head north to the nearby San Lorenzo university district for a lively, unpretentious night out that won't cost the earth. Shopping - All the big name designers can be found in the streets at the bottom of the Spanish Steps. The Stone Island and CP Company store is on Via del Babuino. Alternatively, head over to Trastevere on a Sunday morning for the huge Porta Portese flea market, where you can rummage about for authentic early 80's Adidas football shirts and vintage Lacoste polos.
Further reading -
"Time Out" Rome (Time Out Rome)
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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