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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Venice and the Veneto. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts--even the most scenic canal routes.
Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone.
We'll show you the best of Rome, Florence, and Venice, then set off to explore the rest of Italy. You'll admire Milan's flamboyant Duomo, shop for glass and colorful pottery, wander through the medieval alleyways of Siena, stroll through the astonishing remnants of Pompeii, explore Sicily's ancient Greek temples, bike through the vineyards and hill towns of Tuscany, and dine memorably everywhere you go.
Readers will especially love the hundreds of color photos of everything from Rome's famous piazzas, Navona and di Spagna, to the red-roofed villages of Tuscany to room-by-room descriptions of the Uffizi Gallery and the Vatican museums (where you'll find the newly restored Sistine Chapel).
Detailed city and regional mapsCultural Connections: Sample the best in Italian cuisine, from carciofi to cavallo.Hidden Scoops & Hidden Deals: Watch craftsmen breathe life into molten glass.
Explore the riches of Italy with Lonely Planet's essential guide. Featuring a special color feature on Italian art and architecture, this book also contains insider's advice on the best pasta and gelati; skiing and trekking information, notes on history, culture and current politics; as well as practical food and accommodation suggestions for every budget.
Cinque Terre; Florence; Pisa, San Gimignano, and Siena; Orvieto and Civita; Rome; Naples, Sorrento, the Amalfi Coast, and Paestum; Venice and Verona; Bolzano and the Dolomites; Varenna, Lake Como, and Milan.
Rick Steves' Rome 2003 includes the best sights like St. Peter's, the Sistine Chape, and the Colisum,as well as activities, friendly places to eat and sleep -- heavy on character, light on the budget, suggested day plans and itineraries mixing famous sights with little-known discoveries, shopping and entertainment secrets, and special tips for exploring with kids.
In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her.
