Florence on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant street plan from Touring Club Italiano, with the city’s historic heart shown at 1:6, 500, plus a road map of the environs. Clear, elegant cartography & subtle colouring make TCI plans particularly easy to read. The main plan at 1:12, 500 covers Florence with its outer suburbs, from Fiesole in the north-east to Sandicci & Galluzzo in the south-west. Main traffic arteries across the city are highlighted. Churches & other important historic or municipal buildings are prominently coloured & named. Unusually for street plans, outside the main built-up areas the map has contour lines at 10m intervals, highlighting the topography of surrounding hills south & north-east of the city. Florence’s historic centre, including the left bank of the Arno with the Boboli Gardens, is shown on a large inset at 1:6, 500. Pedestrianized streets & square are clearly marked. Map legend

Includes:: English. Street index in on the reverse of the map & has a list of useful addresses Another large inset covers the environs of the city at 1:90, 000, showing access from the two motorways, Autostrada del Sole (A1-E35) & Autostrada Firenze-Mare (A11-E76).

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Florence & the best of Tuscany in the City & Regions series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of cities & their surrounding regions & including some of the most detailed listings & directories of places to eat & drink & things to do & see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment & nightlife, in addition to principal sights & attractions, with expert local writers providing an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city. This unique quality has ensured that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. The surrounding region is also incorporated in some guides, with information on the principal attractions, sites, landscapes & the best way of exploring them. Each of the Time Out city & region guides has a similar layout, allowing visitors to explore their destination easily. An ...

Florence in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Florence in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Florence with Pisa, Siena & San Gimignano in a series of street plans from Rough Guides published on very light waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, indexed, with recommendations for shops, restaurants, cafes & cars, & venues. The plan is folded to only 9x 19cm when detached from its protective cover, & can be easily rolled or folded into smaller size without any damage or creases. On one side is a plan of central districts of Florence at 1:9, 200, plus an enlargement of the city ...

Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had the strongest English accent: the Goncourt brothers in 1855 called it `ville tout anglaise`. Though that accent is diminished now, Florence remains for the English-speaking traveller what it always has been
- one of the best loved, & most visited, of cities. In this Traveller`s Reader, Florence`s rich & glorious past is brought vividly to life for the tourist of today through the medium of letters, diaries & memoirs of travellers to Florence from past centuries & of the Florentines themselves. The extracts chosen include: Boccaccio on the Black Death; Vasari on the building of Giotto`s Campanile; an eye-witness account of the installation of Michaelangelo`s ` David`; the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Casa Guidi; & D. H. Lawrence & Dylan Thomas on twentieth-century Florentine society. Sir Harold Acton provides a concise history of the city from its origins, through its zenith as a prosperous city state which, under the Medici, gave birth to the Renaissance, & up to the Arno`s devastating flood in 1966. Sir Harold Acton, man of letters, historian, aesthete, novelist & poet, has spent most of his life in Florence. Among his best-known books is The Last Medici, Memoirs of an Aesthete.
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This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert`s gift is weaving political, social & art history into an elegantly readable & marvelously lively whole. The author`s book on Florence will also be at once a history & a guide book & will be enhanced by splendid photographs & illustrations & line drawings which will describe all the buildings & treasures of the city. ...

A detailed street plan of central Florence showing the city as it was between 1865 & 1871, the period during which it served as capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Drawn by Edizioni Multigraphic using information from various historical sources including the city’s official archives, the map presents the famous landmarks as government buildings, e.g. Palazzo Pitti as the Royal Palace & Palazzo Vecchio as the Parliament. It is interesting to notice the central railway station “ Santa Maria Novella”, which here appears in its original shape before the enlargement of the 1930s; the Art secondary school of Porta Romana is still used as Royal Stables, etc. The map also shows the new tree-lined avenues: this was the most visible change to the city structure, since the old city walls were knocked down & replaced with the avenues. Over 80 locations are cross-referenced to the accompanying list of public buildings, & the map also provides historical notes which include a list of ministerial office holders during the city’s tenure as the capital of Italy. Map legend & all the text are in English. ...

Bring Florence to life with this beautiful three-dimensional Panorama Pop, featuring the city`s most famous sites. Remember Florence for ever with this exquisite three-dimensional expanding pocket guide. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, the guide unfolds to a length of 1.5 metres & features 12 of Florence`s most famous sites, including the Duomo, Baptistery, Square of Signoria, Ponte Vecchio, Uffizi Gallery, Basilica of Santa Croce, Bargello`s Yard, Via Tornabuoni, Pitti Palace & Gardens of Boboli & San Miniato Al Monte. A perfect gift or souvenir for anyone wishing to remember a visit to the city. ...

A map commemorating the tragic flood on 4th November 1966, showing the extent of the inundation within the city itself & in the surrounding province. A street plan of the historic city centre & the adjoining districts on both banks of the Arno shows the height reached by the flood waters, up to six metres in places. A map of the Florence province at 1:100, 000, with cartography based on the Italian topographic survey, shows the areas flooded by the Arno & its tributaries. Map legend & the accompanying text are in Italian only. The map also has black & white photos of the city centre during the flood. ...