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Da Vinci Code spawns tourist trade
Rome
December 28, 2004
The next time the Pope addresses crowds in St Peter’s Square, he may see tourists with paperbacks by the blockbuster conspiracy novelist Dan Brown, rather than Catholic pilgrims with Bibles or guidebooks.
The first “official Angels and Demons tour”, organised by a group of thirtysomething Romans specialising in the “darker side of Rome”, will show visitors the Roman sites used by the author of The Da Vinci Code.
Since The Da Vinci Code became a global success, the author’s previous novels have become bestsellers too. Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, and Deception Point were all in the top five British paperback fiction list in the run-up to Christmas.
“We have noticed . . . that lots of tourists, mainly American and British, have started coming to Rome just to see the sites in Angels and Demons,” said Simone Gozzi, head of the Dark Heart of Rome association.
“Dan Brown certainly moves the masses.”
theage.com.au/news/World/Da-Vinci-Code-spawns-tourist-trade/2004/12/27/1103996494431.html?oneclick=true
Rome
December 28, 2004
The next time the Pope addresses crowds in St Peter’s Square, he may see tourists with paperbacks by the blockbuster conspiracy novelist Dan Brown, rather than Catholic pilgrims with Bibles or guidebooks.
The first “official Angels and Demons tour”, organised by a group of thirtysomething Romans specialising in the “darker side of Rome”, will show visitors the Roman sites used by the author of The Da Vinci Code.
Since The Da Vinci Code became a global success, the author’s previous novels have become bestsellers too. Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress, and Deception Point were all in the top five British paperback fiction list in the run-up to Christmas.
“We have noticed . . . that lots of tourists, mainly American and British, have started coming to Rome just to see the sites in Angels and Demons,” said Simone Gozzi, head of the Dark Heart of Rome association.
“Dan Brown certainly moves the masses.”
theage.com.au/news/World/Da-Vinci-Code-spawns-tourist-trade/2004/12/27/1103996494431.html?oneclick=true