Florence in the Shortlist Guide series from Time Out; exploring a range of international destinations in a handy, pocket-sized format designed to introduce visitors to the best nightlife, entertainment & local attractions in the city. Expert local writers provide an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city, ensuring that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. Each guide opens with a ...

Florence in the AA Spiral Guides series; comprising a selection of titles exploring a wide range of cities, regions & countries in a handy, spiral loose-leaf format. Fold-out flaps at the front & back of each title give an overview of the main regions covered, with page numbers so visitors can locate their destination easily. Each guide explores the destination geographically by region or area & provides the essential information for the main sites & attractions in addition to a recommended tour of each area by car. An introductory section - ...

Florence in the Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around the city. The guide features fifteen route recommendations that link up better known sights & take you off of the more beaten track; they are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & who offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guide has an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the background & descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An overview chapter opens the guide & reviews geography, customs & culture, history, food & drink, shopping, culture & entertainment. Next feature the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours, each of which have a good amount of accompanying information & come with a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do with day to day basics & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher ...

Florence in the Step by Step series by Insight Guides focuses on providing tailor made walks & tours around the city. The guide features fifteen route recommendations that link up better known sights & take you off of the more beaten track; they are written by local experts who have personally selected places to eat & drink en-route & who offer insider tips on culture, shopping & nightlife. The guide has an array of colour photographs which help bring to life the background & descriptive information provided for destinations & attractions. An overview chapter opens the guide & reviews geography, customs & culture, history, food & drink, shopping, culture & entertainment. Next feature the selected itineraries for walks and/or tours, each of which have a good amount of accompanying information & come with a simple route plan. A user friendly alphabetical directory lists practical information to do with day to day basics & listings of h&-picked hotels & restaurants are provided to suit different budgets & tastes. The publisher ...

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 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 ...

Why has Florence always drawn so many English & American visitors? Why have men & women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so repellent--to artists & writers over the years? Moving fleetly between present & past & exploring characters both real & fictional, Leavitt`s narrative limns the history of the foreign colony from its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century until its demise under Mussolini, & considers the appeal of Florence to figures as diverse as Tchaikovsky, E.M. Forster, Ronald Firbank, & Mary Mc Carthy. Lesser-known episodes in Florentine history--the moving of Michelangelo`s David, & the construction of temporary bridges by black American soldiers in the wake of the Second World War--are contrasted with images of Florence today (its vast pizza parlors & tourist culture). Leavitt also examines the city`s portrayal in such novels & films as A Room with a View, The Portrait of a Lady & Tea with Mussolini. ...

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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