Northern Tuscany is filled with artistic treasures. From Florence, the jewel in Tuscany's crown, to the immaculately preserved historical city of Lucca, Northern Tuscany is wonderfully varied. Footprint Focus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating & entertainment to ensure that your trip

Includes:: the best of this beautiful region of Italy. Essentials section with useful advice on getting to & around Northern Tuscany. Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep & play.

Includes:: information on tour operators & activities, from admiring Renaissance classics to finding the finest regional food produce. Detailed maps for Florence, Pisa & Lucca. Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, Footprint Focus Northern Tuscany (
Includes: Florence, Pisa & Lucca) provides concise & comprehensive coverage of one of Italy's most beautiful regions. The content of the Footprintfocus Northern Tuscany (
Includes: Florence, Pisa & Lucca) guide has been extracted from Footprint's Tuscany Full-Colour Guide.





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The western part of the Oberpfälzer Wald Regional Park & the Steinwald Regional Park, map no. 50-14, in a series of special contoured & GP-compatible recreational maps from the Bavarian state survey organization, with cartography of the German topographic survey at 1:50, 000 & extensive additional tourist overprint highlighting waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Maps in this series have cartography identical to the standard topographic survey of Germany. Topography is vividly presented by contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by bold shading & graphic relief, plus colouring and/or graphics to show forests & other types of vegetation. Extensive tourist overprint highlights local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes
- including King Ludwig Way, different variants of the Way of St James, etc
- indicating, where appropriate, their waymarking designation. Symbols show various types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, places of interest, ski & cable car lift, etc. The maps have UTM grid lines at 1-km UTM intervals. Map legend &, where included, additional text, are in German only. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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The southern part of Sweden in a series of 30 double-sided cycling maps from Norstedts printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Mainland is covered at 1:90, 000 with Gotland at 1:100, 000. The maps, prepared in association with Cykelfrämjandet
- Sweden’s largest national cycling organization, highlight all the national & other major cycle routes, plus a selection of local routes. The overprint indicates sections which are on gravel roads and/or not singposted. Also marked are selected hiking trails. A range of symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest, including campsites & youth hostels, wind shelters, cultural & historical sites, interesting nature & geological spots, etc. The maps provide a very detailed picture of the road network, including privately maintained roads open to the general public. Railway lines are shown with stations & ferry connections are marked. Topography is indicated by light relief shading with spot heights, plus colouring and/or graphics for forests & marshl&. The maps have a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each map also provides phone numbers & web addresses of local tourist offices.


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Northern Virginia urban conurbation on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Coverage extends from the western districts of Washington DC in the north-eastern corner of the map southwards beyond Alexandria, & westwards beyond Herndon & Clifton. Other Communities covered by this map include Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church & Vienna, plus in Maryland: Chevy Chase Village, Glen Echo & Somerset. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. ...

Northern Vulcan Eifel: Daun
- Koblenz area in a series of cycling maps from Sportoena covering Belgium & the adjoining regions
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The northern part of the Westerwald hills along the border of Rhinel&-Palatinate & North Rhine-Westphalia on a set of three maps in a series of contoured & GPS-compatible maps at 1:25, 000 with cartography of the German topographic survey & extensive overprint highlighting waymarked hiking trails and/or cycling routes, plus numerous recreational facilities including campsites, youth hostels, huts, Houses of Nature & other types of accommodation, sites for various outdoor pursuits, historic buildings & other cultural heritage, etc. The maps have a 1km UTM grid. Map legend & additional notes about the area are in German only. The northern part of the Westerwald is covered at 1:25, 000 by three maps, available either separately or as a set. Cartography in this recreational series from the state survey organization of Rheinl&-Pfalz is identical to the Germany’s official topographic survey & the maps provide all the information expected of survey mapping at this scale including landmarks, forest cover, etc. Contours are at 5m intervals, with additional relief shading. Many titles are double-sided to provide wider coverage on one map and/or include on the reverse additional tourist information. The maps have a UTM grid for GPS navigation. Most map legends now include English; additional tourist information such as route descriptions, notes about the region & its heritage, etc, vary – some are in German only. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

In Northern Wilderness, Ray Mears celebrates one of the earth’s great wildernesses. In a journey through the mountains, forests, tundra & ice of the Canadian arctic, in a land where roads are still a scarcity, Mears reveals the techniques of the Native Canadians & the Inuit; discovering how they used their skills to survive in a landscape that is both frighteningly beautiful & desolately awesome. ...

Northern Yucatan on a waterproof & tear-resistant, GPS compatible Adventure Map from the NGS, with street plans of central Cancún & Mérida, plus ground plans, photos & descriptions of its main Maya remains. Topography is shown by contours at 25m intervals, enhanced by subtle relief shading, spot heights & graphics for marshlands to provide a very clear presentation of the terrain. Additional colouring shows forested areas. National parks & other protected areas are prominently marked. Graded presentation of the road network distinguishes between gravel & dirt roads. Locations of fuel supplies are shown; no driving distances are indicated. Railway lines are shown & local airports & ferry routes to Cozumel are marked. Symbols highlight various places of interest, prominently indicating the area’s many UNESCO World Heritage sites. Along the coast beaches, diving & snorkeling sites, & other sport & recreational places are also marked. The map has both a UTM grid & latitude/longitude margin ticks at intervals of 15’. A short index lists only protected areas. Map legend is in English & Spanish. Street plans cover central areas of Cancún (1:25, 000) & Mérida (1:30, 000), highlighting various facilities & places of interest. The whole of the reverse side of the map is devoted to the presentation of the region’s main Maya remains: Chichén Itzá, Cobá, Uxmal, El Rey, Ek’ Balam, Tulum, & San Gervasio. Each site is presented with a ground plan, a photograph of some of the remains & a description. Also provided are brief notes on various periods of Maya history. ...

The Danish island of Zealand at 1:100, 000 on a sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant, double-sided cycling map from the Copenhagen-based Nordisk Korthandel, showing the country’s national, regional & local cycling routes with numbers, plus locations of campsites & youth hostels, etc. The map, with a generous overlap between the sides, covers most of Zealand apart from its southernmost tip south of the Dysbø & Præstø Fjords. Maps in this series show Denmark’s network of roads, railways & ferry connections on a contoured base (interval not specified), with additional colouring for woodlands. National, regional & local cycling routes are prominently highlighted & shown with their official numbers. Symbols indicate locations of campsites, youth hostels, selected hotels, & rest areas. The maps have no geographical coordinates for GPS. Map legend & explanatory text (with website addresses of useful organizations) include English. To see the currently available titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The Danish island of Zealand at 1:100, 000 on a sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant, double-sided cycling map from the Copenhagen-based Nordisk Korthandel, showing the country’s national, regional & local cycling routes with numbers, plus locations of campsites & youth hostels, etc. The map, with a generous overlap between the sides, covers most of Zealand apart from its southernmost tip south of the Dysbø & Præstø Fjords. Maps in this series show Denmark’s network of roads, railways & ferry connections on a contoured base (interval not specified), with additional colouring for woodlands. National, regional & local cycling routes are prominently highlighted & shown with their official numbers. Symbols indicate locations of campsites, youth hostels, selected hotels, & rest areas. The maps have no geographical coordinates for GPS. Map legend & explanatory text (with website addresses of useful organizations) include English. To see the currently available titles in this series please click on the series link. ...