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Product Description
Your holiday starts here! From artistic masterpieces to picturesque hill towns, explore Italy's finest with this essential guide. Using the unique cutaway maps and 3D models explore Roman ruins and the splendour of Renaissance art. With recommendations on which wine goes best with the risi e bisi or the maccheroni con le sarde, you will be living la dolce vita just like the locals!
Amazon.com Review
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy. 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, and even popular Rome bus routes. Broken into several parts--"Introducing Italy," "Region by Region" (with northern, central, and southern chapters as well as impressive sections covering Rome and Florence), "Traveler's Needs," and "Survival Guide"--the guide provides the reader with a complete picture of the country. 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). There are also listings for the best pasta restaurants, wine bars, chic shopping streets, and some of the world's most romantic hotels. --Jill Fergus
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great Travel Book!, 2008-06-19
I bought this more for my grandparents and they LOVED it! When they were done with it, they gave it back and I am even more excited to visit Italy now thanks to this book. It is so detailed as far as region and food and wine and points of interest. I realize that I will have to plan to visit Italy more than once to see everything. The pictures and charts and maps are WONDERFUL!!!! I would recommend this book for any one planning on visiting Italy. I will buy other books about other countries from this book line before I travel.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Beats all the other travel guides, 2007-11-17
This is the greatest for snapshots of where to go and what to see. Not terribly good on eating places and lodging, but on sightseeing, it beats all the rest---hands down!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Forget the rest, this is the best, 2007-06-27
The only bad thing I can say about this book is that they must think the people who buy it have money, because most of their restaurant/hotel offerings are for those who have it.
That said, it is just an incredible book. Don't even bother with the others. When I lead pilgrimages, this is the book I recommend.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Great Guidebook, 2007-05-01
Because we were going to Florence, Venice, Rome and Lake Como, this was the general guidebook I chose as one of the key references for our trip. I read the sections that pertained to the trip beforehand. Soon, what I found myself doing was filling it with small post-it notes on which were notations like "must see" and "yes" and "wow".
It was not that other guidebooks might not have held information about these places but this one had such fine photos and so many pithy details that it was just about all I needed to plan the trip.
The 3-D drawings of the Uffizi and similar buildings, the Street-by-Street birds-eye perspective maps, and the small sidebars about painters such as Giotto were all so very helpful. I would recommend this book to all who are planning to go to Italy, and while I have not seen the new and updated version, this one worked fine in the summer of 2006 for our family.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Beautifully presentation, lacks specific recommendations, 2006-09-21
This makes a good coffee table book for pre and post-travel. The photos and drawings are wonderful. However, the lack of specific reccomendations for restaurants, tips on how and when to see things, and local customs is obvious If you have to carry just one book with you, this one wouldn't be the one. If you want to impress your friends with what you'll see or have seen, by all means buy it.
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