Italy Road Atlas 2018 edition at 1:200, 000 with Touring Club Italiano’s superb cartography & presentation, including 18 ...

Italy in the Countries series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of destinations, exploring the best places to stay, eat & explore. Based on their successful ‘ City Guides’ series, Time Out country guides have a similar format & cover an extensive range of activities, entertainment & sightseeing opportunities. Each guide is written by a team of experts who specialize in their locality, giving readers a detailed & thorough understanding of each region. An ‘ Editor’s Pick’ opening chapter summarizes some of the country’s ‘star destinations’ in categories including art & architecture, eating & drinking, historic sites, hotels, nightlife, outdoor activities, scenery, shopping, art & famous buildings. Each guide has a similar layout, allowing readers to plan their trip accordingly. Sections are thematically grouped & include categories such as rural idylls, cities, coast, small gems, mountains, rivers & wetlands & dramatic landscapes. Using Time Out’s extensive knowledge & experience of cities, this section is usually the most in-depth, including comprehensive listings for the best places to eat & drink, accommodation & local entertainment & nightlife. Individual features exploring specific facets of a local region or city are interlaced with the text & are compiled by knowledgeable local experts.A ‘ Need to Know’ chapter gives useful practical guidance on a range of matters including accommodation, age restrictions, airlines, customs, disabled travelers, driving, drugs, electricity, embassies & consulates, emergencies, health, language, money, opening hours, smoking, tax, telephones, time & seasons, tipping, trains, visas & weights & measures. There is also a calendar of local & national festivals & events that are held throughout the year, with website details where relevant. ...

In this edition of NG Traveler Italy, veteran writer & Italy expert, Tim Jepson makes this vibrant & fascinating country
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Wherever you visit--Rome, Florence, Venice, Tuscany, Naples, Sicily, etc.--you are in good hands with renowned Italy expert Tim Jepson. He ably guides readers through the storied capital of Rome, Northwest Italy, Lombardy & the Lakes, Venice, Northeast Italy, Emilia-Romagna & the Marche, Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, the South, & Sicily & Sardinia. The opening chapters offer practical advice on planning your trip & explain the country in the context of its rich history & culture, its arts, &, of course, its cuisine. Throughout the guide, contemporary editorial features & experiential sidebars highlight every aspect of Italian life & offer a wide range of activities for the traveler to seek out: Learn the history of the Grand Tour; watch the Palio, one of the world`s oldest horseraces; explore the Trulli houses of Puglia; & learn the true history of the Mafia in Sicily. Take a walk through Medieval Rome; hunt for truffles; explore Chianti or Umbria by car; or enjoy a drive along the Valle d` Aosta, around Lago Maggiore, or Lago di Garda. Take a walk from Santissima Annunziata to Santa Trinita in Florence & learn about the city`s flooding challenges. ...

About this series Based upon the idea that the best advice is the advice of fellow travellers this series of books collects together writings from various authors. Some are well known, others are just ordinary travellers, but all connected with travel in a certain place. ...

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Italy's Cinque Terre. In this compact guide, Rick Steves covers the essentials of the Cinque Terre, including Corniglia, Vernazza, & the nearby towns of Santa Margherita Ligure & Portofino. Marvel at colorful murals in Riomaggiore, rent a boat in Sestri Levante, or explore the Church of the Cappuccin Monks in Monterosso al Mare. You'll get Rick's firsthand advice on the best sights, eating, sleeping, & nightlife, & the maps & self-guided tours will ensure you make the most of your experience. More than just reviews & directions, a Rick Steves Snapshot guide is a tour guide in your pocket. Rick Steves' Snapshot guides consist of excerpted chapters from Rick Steves' European country guidebooks. Snapshot guides are a great choice for travelers visiting a specific city or region, rather than multiple European destinations. These slim guides offer all of Rick's up-to-date advice on what sights are worth your time & money. They include good-value hotel & restaurant recommendations, with no introductory information (such as overall trip planning, when to go, & travel practicalities). ...

Long-distance hiking tours in the high Alps in a series of contoured, GPS compatible maps at 1:25, 000 or 1:50, 000, published jointly by L’ Escursionista Editore & Editrek & printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant paper. Each title also contains a multilingual guide with stage-by-stage descriptions & other useful information. Each map is contoured (for interval please see individual descriptions), plus has bold relief shading & colouring for forested areas. Plenty of spot heights & names of various topographic features (peaks, valleys, etc) are also provided. The route is highlighted & annotated with its official letters or numbers. Also marked, although less prominently highlighted, are local trails, plus campsites & different types of mountain accommodation, locations with services such as cash machines or grocery stores, bus stops, etc. Road network indicates routes closed to motorized traffic. The maps have both UTM & latitude/longitude grids. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title also

Includes:: a multilingual pocket guide with a description of the tour, a table showing availability of accommodation & other services, contact details for tourist offices & mountain shelters, etc. For more information please see description of the individual titles.



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Central Italy at 1:200, 000 in a series of three excellent road atlases from the Touring Club Italiano, each with enlargements of the environs of main cities, numerous superb indexed street plans, plus a very comprehensive distance table. The atlases, which have always been very popular with Stanford ...

This new addition to the ” Directory of World Cinema” series focuses on Italy & Italian cinema. While attractive to English speaking audiences, Italian cinema is not as culturally familiar as French or German cinema so this volume aims to provide an understanding of some of its better-known aspects as part of a wider filmic & cultural study. Covering a range of genres including silent spectacle, neo-realism, the spaghetti western & the giallo, this volume provides a comprehensive historical sweep of Italian cinema that encompasses prestige & popular cinema & provides different standpoints from which to consider the recurrent themes of realism, politics, spectacle, & the operatic that are found across Italian film culture. ...

Sardinia’s Trenino Verde tourist railway lines, crossing some of the island’s wildest terrain & run with vintage diesel & steam locomotives, with the surrounding area on detailed, contoured & GPS compatible maps at 1:40, 000 from Edizioni Abies. Each title is available either separately or as part of a set of three or four maps. Topography is shown by contours at 20m intervals, with additional colouring for woodlands & maquis (macchia) shrubl&. The route of the Trenino Verde is prominently marked & shown with stations, optional stops, bridges or viaducts, tunnels & other interesting engineering features. The maps also highlight local hiking trails, viewpoints, interesting natural sites, nuraghe, churches, museums, etc, as well as locations with hotels, agriturismo accommodation on farms, & B& Bs. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. On the reverse each title has lists of local accommodation options with contact details, plus notes about interesting localities & their traditional festivities, etc. The text is in Italian, German & English.

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