Florence & Tuscany in the Eyewitness Top 10 series from Dorling Kindersley is a condensed format guide book featuring dozens of illustrated, top ten lists for the traveller regardless of their disposable budget. To save you time & money a Top 10 Things to Avoid is also included. Top 10 lists are given for things to see & do both in Florence & across the region of Tuscany, as well as the top ten features of particular locations or events. Practicalities are not forgotten as Top 10s are also provided for topics such as planning your trip, getting around & shopping. Accommodation lists provide the ten most recommended places to stay for a range of budgets, whilst restaurant top tens feature as the guide works its way through the location in question. Simple, small street plans illustrate the location of the top ten recommends within their neighbourhoods & basic, fold out maps form the inside covers. An additional pull out feature of the guide suggests ideas on how to spend your day & a phrase section is included which will help the traveller to acclimatise. ...

Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything in Florence & Tuscany. Discover the best of everything the region has to offer with this essential, pocket-sized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Florence & Tuscany with pull-out map. Top 10 lists showcase the best things to do in Florence, from the Uffizi, Duomo & Pitti Palace to Tuscan highlights including Lucca, Siena & the vineyards of Chianti. Ten easy-to-follow itineraries explore the region`s most interesting areas
- from Pisa to San Gimignano
- while reviews of Tuscany`s best restaurants, hotels & shops will help you plan your perfect trip.

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Florence & Tuscany in the Easy Guide Series by Frommer’s captures the unique spirit of the place offering expert advice in all price ranges for a variety of establishments & attractions. Arranged in a clear layout, put together in a light & compact format (256 pages), the guides is easy to read & light to carry. The guide introduces Florence & Tuscany with ‘ The Best of’, ‘ In Context’ & ‘ Suggested Itineraries’ chapters, offering information on the local history, culture, geography as well as selecting recommended road trips in & around this location & including Umbria. This section is followed by individual chapters dedicated to Florence, Around Florence, Siena & Western Tuscany, Central & Eastern Tuscany, The Best of Umbria; with advice on where to stay, where to eat, strolls, exploring, shopping, entertainment etc. The guide concludes with a final section on planning your trip. Frommer’s is an American publisher specialising in guidebooks emphasising the culture, lifestyle & history of the destination & stressing the insights travels offer. In their effort to contribute to making travel more accessible they are a cost-conscious company & offer, not only reasonable priced guides, but they also always include sensible priced lodgings & establishments in their guides. They are openly & highly critical when it comes to judging value for your money, & if something or somewhere is not worth your money & time, you will read it. ...

The magical landscapes & rich culture of Tuscany have fostered the inspiration & settings for literature since the works of the great Florentine poets Dante, Petrarch & Boccaccio in the 14th century & has been a magnet for expatriate writers since the arrival in Florence of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer in 1372. With its historic cities & villages; its verdant countryside & crepuscular coastline; its treasury of art covering five millennia &, above all, its long heritage of authorship, Tuscany one of the most celebrated & well-travelled regions in the world. As the source of the Italian language & birthplace of the Renaissance, Tuscany lies at the historic & cultural heart of Italy, & has remained an irresistible attraction to writers for six centuries. This book is a journey that follows in their footsteps; from John Milton & Thomas Gray to the Brownings, the Shelleys, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, Mark Twain, Muriel Spark & many others. Florence & Tuscany: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded traveller (either in person or in an armchair) on a vivid & illuminating journey, retracing the footsteps of writers who have lived & worked in, or been inspired by, the history & landscape of Tuscany from John Milton & Thomas Gray to the Brownings, the Shelleys, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, Mark Twain Muriel Spark & many others. For anyone who has fallen under a Tuscan spell, as so many have before, this book
- the first of its kind
- will prove enthralling reading.

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Florence: Art & Architecture combines interesting & clearly written texts with an abundance of pictures. Prominent Florentine scholars & museum directors accompany the reader on a journey to the unique artistic treasures of the city on the Arno. They introduce historical buildings & sculptures in their historical contexts, & lead you through world famous painting galleries such as the Accademia & the Palazzo Pitti. ...

About this series: The Art/ Shop/ Eat guides, from the makers of the popular Blue Guides, are compact city guides with a focus on museums, art galleries & cultural activities, as well as food, drink & entertainment. Each guide is divided into several district sections, & three city-wide sections covering entertainment, trip-planning & an art glossary. District sections each begin with high-scale street maps of the district. Museum & Gallery descriptions form the bulk of each district section, with very detailed entries for the area ...

Florence in the Blue Guides series focuses primarily on cultural tourism for the visitor who wishes to understand more of what they might see &, as such, the title provides thorough & objective reference information covering art, history & architecture. The guide features illustrations aimed to inform rather than just decorate, such as maps, diagrams, floor plans, architectural details & photographs. Cross referenced indexing means information is accessible & layout navigable. Selective listings of restaurants & accommodation are chosen in the belief that good, practical recommendations will contribute to the enjoyment of good art & culture. ...

Laminated & waterproof map for visitors to Florence, combining a plan of the city with street plans of Fiésole & central Pisa, a map of the city & its environs, & a road map of most of northern Tuscany. The street plan of Florence at 1:7, 000 extends west to Ponte dellla Vittoria, north to beyond the Firenze EXPO, east to Ponte G. da Verranzzano, & south to the Bobolino district to include the Boboli Gardens. The plan shows one way streets & highlights places of interest, selected accommodation, etc. An inset shows Fiésole at 1:12, 000. On the reverse is a street plan of central Pisa also at 1:7, 000, from the railway station north to the Leaning Tower. A road map at 1:80, 000 covers Florence & its environs, showing access from the A1 motorway & the airport. A wider part of Tuscany is presented at 1:450, 000, extending over to Lucca, Pisa & the coast, & south to Siena. All the plans & maps are indexed with lists of streets/localities plus main sights & places of interest. Also included are lists of the top 24 sights in Florence & 12 in Pisa, a ground plan of the Duomo, a small map of Italy showing its administrative regions, & information on the city’s climate. ...

Central Florence at 1:9, 000 from Litografia Artistica Cartografica on a clear, easy to read indexed street plan in its Gliobal Map imprint. 101 important buildings & institutions are highlighted & cross-referenced to a list next to the plan. Coverage extends from well north of the central railway station to south of the Boboli Gardens. The main index is on the reverse, accompanied by contact details of museums, tourist offices & various useful services, plus brief multilingual notes about the city’s history. ...

Waterproof, durable, indexed street plan of Florence at 1:15, 000, presented in a handy concertina fold, with an enlargement of the city centre at 1:9, 000, a map of the environs of Florence, & a diagram of the metro network. The main street plan is spread over both sides of the map, with one way streets indicated clearly, as are metro stations. Similar cartography is present in the city centre enlargement, whilst the map showing the environs of Florence shows only the major road network for the area from Modena in the north down to Siena. The map index only

Includes:: a selection of streets, & places of interest.A small inset box provides a selection of dialing codes for Florence, currency conversion information, & also emergency phone numbers.

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