Rome discovers a new breed of tourist

And many of those are likely to be readers of Dan Brown's books "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons".

The first "official Angels and Demons tour", organised by a group of 30-something Romans specialising in the "darker side of Rome", will tomorrow show visitors the Roman sites used by the author of The Da Vinci Code.

Archbishop John Foley, head of the Vatican's pontifical council for social communications, told the Guardian recently that he had read The Da Vinci Code and found aspects of it blasphemous. He attributed the book's success to its "overall attitude of attack and undermining religion by saying it's a sort of conspiracy". But, he said, the Vatican had "done away with the edicts of forbidden books".

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