The National Geographic map of Florence city centre at 1:6, 00 is a durable waterproof city map & transport guide designed for tourism. Clear & easy-to-read street mapping has main attractions highlighted & 3D illustrations of top sights. Hotels, churches, theatres & information points are among the tourist features marked on the map. One-way streets & pedestrian areas are indicated. The area covered extends to Fortezza da Basso in the north, Le Cascine in the west & San Miniate al Monte to the south-east. in addition, an enlargement on the reverse shows the very heart of the city at a very high scale (1:4, 500), including Santa Croce, Ponte Vecchio, the Duomo, Santa Maria Novella & San Lorenzo. The reverse of the map features background information, top sights & activities, & basic essential tourist info, as well as a small map of Amerigo Vespucci Airport & its road connections. The map is indexed for streets, points of interest & hotels, &

Includes:: regional & national overview maps. This map is printed on a surprisingly strong rip-proof, waterproof paper.

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H&-drawn style street plan, highlighting not only traditional places of interest, but also showing hotels, restaurants, caf Ts, shops
- all colour coded for easy reference. The main map shows the central part of the city from the railway station to the Boboli Gardens on the other side of the Arno. On the reverse, a more detailed map covers the historic centre around the Duomo & the Uffizi Gallery. Two small maps show the environs of the city & central Tuscany indicating places of interest.
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Detailed, clear street plan of Florence combining road & tourist information & extending to Fiesole to the north & Sorgane & Scandicci to the south. Road names, car parks & one-way streets are marked alongside pedestrian zones, restricted traffic zones & administrative boundaries. A series of symbols indicates museums & places of interest, tourist information points, various religious buildings, hostels, campings, police stations & post offices. Also railways lines & stations are clearly marked. Three insets show a plan of the bus system, an enlargement of the city center (Centro) at 1:10, 000, & an overview of the areas around the city including Bologna & Siena which highlights motorway exits & regional boundaries. The plan also

Includes:: an extensive index, some general tourist listings & emergency numbers. Map legend

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Indexed street map of Florence at 1:9, 000, with an enlargement of the city centre at 1:5, 500, & a smaller map showing the environs of Florence at 1:100, 000. The cartography is clear with bold colouring & places of interest such as the Duomo & the Uffizi clearly indicated. The map showing the environs of Florence shows the major road network from Carrara Massa in the north down to Siena in the South. The map is comprehensively indexed on the reverse of the map, with museums & galleries, churches, palaces & other places of interest included with the street names. Map index & legend

Includes:: English.

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Central Florence on a tourist street plan from Red Maps presented in a handy concertina format & printed on thick high quality paper, with thematic indexes for sights including museums & churches, hotels, shopping, etc. The plan presents central Florence at 1:7, 900 approx, extending from the city ...

Florence Baedeker is divided into four main categories
- background, practicalities, tours & A-Z of sites. The guide is introduced
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Florence in the Luxe city guides series, which are slim & small enough to fit easily in a pocket or handbag. Information is distilled from elite suggestions by city residents, specially selected for their style, knowledge & expertise. Luxe guides aim at the upper end of the market & subjectively edit to choose the very best recommendations for shopping, restaurants, leisure options & nightlife. Half day shopping & activity itineraries are suggested for you to mix & match your visit to suit your timetable. When folded close the cardboard guide slots into its own protective plastic frame. Vanity Fair magazine calls them ...

` This is a book to read before you go, to carry with you & to re-read on your return.` SPECTATOR `A sure & illuminating guide.` SUNDAY TIMES The city state of Florence led the rest of the western world in art, science & political idealism in the middle ages. This early richness, the importance of the achievements of its famous sons, including Dante, Giotto, Leonardo & Michelangelo, the great quantity of visible remains, make Florence as a city to visit both alluring & challenging. In true ` Companion Guide` manner, this book describes, with the knowledge & insight distilled from long residence in Florence, & with an art historian`s eye, what is to be seen & its place in history. In discussing the Florentine monuments & their origins in the city`s life, EVE BORSOOK presents a study of the ideas, events & personalities of Florence yesterday & today; she communicates to the visitor her delight in her chosen city, including those districts usually neglected by the tourist but particularly rich in Florentine life. EVE BORSOOK is a research associate at Harvard`s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. ...

Florence at 1: 9, 000 on indexed street plans from Litografia Artistica Cartografica in their Globalmap imprint, with a large, detailed enlargement of the city’s historic centre at 1:5, 500. 112 monuments including historic buildings & churches, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are listed in the index, with most of them marked on the main plan. Car parks are prominently marked in & around the city’s historic centre. Coverage of the main plan

Includes:: Fiesole, & on the reverse a road map of the city’s environs at 1:150, 000 is provided. Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) are Italy’s leading publishers of street plans with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, one way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse.

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Florence is aimed at showing how one of the Italian cities most strongly linked with its past, the quintessential symbol of the Renaissance period, conceals a myriad of innovative architecture. Florence is not a static city. It has often been guilty of long delays & a certain lack of courage in assimilating new approaches, but its way of introducing contemporary architecture into a consolidated context, is unique. Changes with great impact began in Florence at the end of the 19th century with the urban planning transformations designed by Giuseppe Poggi. The strongly defined limits of the historic centre became blurred with the demolition of the fortifications & the city was opened up to permit expansion. In the 1930s, the Rationalist design of the Santa Maria Novella Station introduced a new form of architectural expression into the historic centre & outskirts of the city. This is the building that begins the itinerary proposed in this guide; a chronological, but also a physical beginning: a starting point for visitors to begin their architectural excursion. ...