Discover the best places to visit in Italy with the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy 2017, your indispensable companion to this diverse country. The best things to do in Italy
- from taking a gondola ride down Venice`s Grand Canal, to exploring the porticoed medieval streets of Bologna or marvelling at the treasures displayed at Florence`s Uffi zi gallery
- are showcased with fantastic photography, illustrations & detailed descriptions. In-depth reviews of shops, restaurants & hotels, plus detailed information from expert insiders, including food & wine guides for each area, will help you plan the perfect trip.

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DK Eyewitness Back Roads Italy is the ultimate driving travel guide which will take you via scenic routes to discover charming villages, local restaurants & intimate places to stay. Alongside all the practical information you could need, from road conditions & length of drive to parking information & opening hours, DK Eyewitness Back Roads Italy will help you unearth the real soul of Italy. Pick from twenty-five themed drives, each lasting one to seven days, which reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems & authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge & loaded with ideas for varied activities from walks to days on the beach & children`s attractions, to wine & cycling trips. Meanwhile, the most friendly, best-value hotels & guesthouses & charming restaurants specialising in regional produce have been selected by expert authors. DK Eyewitness Back Roads Italy has gorgeous photographs throughout, with a pull-out map for easy navigation between tours & even postcode information for use with your Sat Nav. Discover the unexpected on your driving holiday with DK Eyewitness Back Roads Italy. ...

Italy in the Eyewitness Family Guides Series has been designed to help families get the most from their visit. It offers sightseeing itineraries & a balanced choice of culture & activities that are focused around major sights to keep parents & kids entertained. Practical information along with the maps ensures a fun & relaxed family holiday. The book is fully illustrated & arranged in geographical order. It first offers an overview of Italy, which is then organised into 5 different areas providing more specific information for each region in the sightseeing section. The guide opens with an introduction & presents the highlights, a yearly calendar of holidays & festivals, & a historical outline. It then provides information to help plan your family holiday, including advice on how to get there, getting around, health, money & communications, shopping, where to stay etc. The sightseeing pages offer a general context of each area showing the must-see attractions & a locator map illustrating the regions it covers. A ...

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- Italy in the Eyewitness Family Guides Series has been designed to help families get the most from their visit.
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Italy in the Eyewitness guide series from Dorling Kindersley; lavishly illustrated & particularly concerned with providing the visitor with detailed background information to sightseeing in the chosen destination & a broad cultural introduction. Popular historical buildings & museums are often described with cutaway diagrams allowing you to view ...

Freytag & Berndt’s large, double-sided road map of Italy at 1:600, 000, with a separate booklet attached to the map cover providing street plans of the country’s 12 main cities plus an extensive index listing all localities with their postcodes. Bold relief shading with plenty of names of geographical features provides a good presentation of the country’s topography, both in the northern part where the coverage extends to include most of southern Switzerland & the Austrian Alps south of Innsbruck, & along the spine of the Apennines. Road network

Includes:: many small local roads, most with driving distances. Gradients are marked on steep roads. The railway network & ferry connections are included. Symbols highlight some places of interest, including national parks, but the map is basically designed to show the road network rather than the country’s great artistic & historical heritage. The map has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 30’. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English.A separate booklet attached to the map cover contains an index, listing all localities with their postcodes & providing street plans of Ancona, Bari, Cagliari, Bolzano, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin & Venice.



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Freytag & Berndt’s road map of Italy at 1:1, 000, 000, designed to present the country’s motorway network & connecting primary & secondary roads, rather than show local roads in detail. Coverage

Includes:: most of Slovenia & extends along the eastern Adriatic to Dubrovnik. The map also shows ferry connections between the mainland & the islands, including Corsica & the Croatian coast. Main mountain & hill ranges are names & UNESCO heritage sites are highlighted. The map has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 1°. Multilingual map legend

Includes:: English. The index, showing all localities with their postcodes, is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover.



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Road Atlas of Italy at 1:200, 000 from Freytag & Berndt in an A4 spiral-bound format, with good presentation of the country’s topography & highlighting of interesting locations, indexed street plans of 24 towns, & mapping of the whole country at 1:1, 000, 000 of easy route planning. Road network is annotated with information showing motorway services & junction names, toll routes, seasonal closures, permanent entry restrictions, routes not recommended for caravans, steep gradients, tourist routes & scenic roads, etc. Driving distances are marked on most local roads. Railway lines are shown with stations; ferry connections & local airports are also marked. Towns, villages & other interesting locations are highlighted. Symbols also indicate campsites, mountain refuges, etc. Topography is shown by relief shading with spot heights, colouring for forested areas, & plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks, valleys, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals. Extensive index lists locations with their postcodes. Map legend

Includes:: English. The atlas also provides indexed street plans of 24 cities indicating main traffic arteries & important buildings & mapping of Italy at 1:1, 000, 000 for easy route planning,

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Italy at a scale of 1:1, 000, 000 on a laminated, tear-resistant, indexed Insight Flexi Map which favours cultural touring in the country, has over 90 significant points of visitor interest enumerated on the legend, & comes with enlarged city street plans of Rome, Milan & Venice at a scale of 1:16, 000. The map

Includes:: coverage of Sicily & Sardinia. Road network shown covers motorways, dual carriageways, trunk roads, main & secondary roads. Motorway junctions are marked, along with petrol stations & road side service stations. Airports, rail lines & ferry lines are marked. The map is indexed by both important place name & the country

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Italy at a scale of 1:1, 000, 000 on a laminated, tear-resistant, indexed Insight Flexi Map which favours cultural touring in the country, has over 90 significant points of visitor interest enumerated on the legend, & comes with enlarged city street plans of Rome, Milan & Venice at a scale of 1:16, 000. The map

Includes:: coverage of Sicily & Sardinia. Road network shown covers motorways, dual carriageways, trunk roads, main & secondary roads. Motorway junctions are marked, along with petrol stations & road side service stations. Airports, rail lines & ferry lines are marked. The map is indexed by both important place name & the country

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