Loire Valley Eyewitness travel guide from Dorling Kindersley is a lavishly illustrated book concerned with providing the visitor with detailed background information to sightseeing in the country & a broad cultural introduction. Popular historical buildings & museums are often described with cutaway diagrams allowing you to view ...

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see & do, plus detailed itineraries & comprehensive maps for exploring this tranquil & picturesque region. Visit the magnificent Chateau de Chambord, take a wine & cheese tour around Sancerre, enjoy the lively atmosphere of medieval Tours or be amazed at the giant mechanical creatures at Les Machines de l` Ile in Nantes: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of the Loire Valley with this indispensable travel guide. Inside DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Loire Valley:- Over 20 colour maps help you navigate with ease- Simple layout makes it easy to find the information you need- Comprehensive tours & itineraries of the Loire Valley, designed for every interest & budget- Illustrations detail famous sights such as the impressive Cathedrale de Notre-Dame in Chartres, the extraordinary Abbaye de Fontevraud in Anjou, the beautiful Chateau de Chenonceau & more- Colour photographs of the region`s bustling cities, picturesque towns & pretty rural villages, elegant chateaux & their landscaped gardens, lush vineyards & more- Detailed chapters, with area maps, cover Anjou; Touraine; Blesois & Orleanais; Berry; North of the Loire; Loire-Atlantique & the Vendee; & more- Historical & cultural context gives you a richer travel experience: beautiful chateaux, historic churches & abbeys, famous writers & artists, winemaking & vineyards, pleasant river, traditional festivals including unique son et lumiere, local cuisine & more
- Essential travel tips: our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop & sightsee, plus how to get around, useful phrases, & visa & health information.
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Loire Valley Eyewitness travel guide from Dorling Kindersley is a lavishly illustrated book concerned with providing the visitor with detailed background information to sightseeing in the country & a broad cultural introduction. Popular historical buildings & museums are often described with cutaway diagrams allowing you to view ...

French region of Pays de la Loire including most of the Loire Valley at 1:200, 000 in a series of double-sided touring maps from Michelin. The map

Includes:: a city centre street plan of Nantes indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest, with selected streets named & listed in the accompanying index. Maps in the Michelin’s REGIONAL series are designed to cover a large area in each title & offer a more convenient touring alternative to the publishers’ LOCAL coverage of France at 1:150, 000. The maps present the road network in great detail, indicating width & the number of lanes, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see the list of all the regional titles in this series please click on the series link.



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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the Loire Valley. Rick Steves covers the essentials of the Loire Valley, including Amboise & Chinon. Visit grandiose chateaus, such as Chenonceau, Blois, & Chateau d' Azay-le-Rideau. Tour the Leonardo da Vinci Park & go wine-tasting in Vouvray. 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). ...

Loire-Atlantique & Vendée départments on the Atlantic coast of central France at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of central La Roche-sur-Yon & Nantes. The map is double-sided, with a good overlap between the sides, & extends from Châteaubriant to La Rochelle, & inland to Cholet & Niort. Coverage

Includes:: La Baule, St-Nazaire, Les Sables-d’ Olonne, Ile de Noirmoutier, Ile de Ré, the Poitevin Marches, etc. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.





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Loiret & Loir-et-Cher départments in the central part of the Loire Valley at 1:150, 000 in Michelin’s Local Series, with highlighting for scenic routes, an index, a special panel with best sights & recommended driving tours, & street plans of central Orléans & Blois. The map extends along the Loire from Tours to Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, with Bourges in the centre of the southern edge. Coverage

Includes:: Chenonceau, Cheverny & Chambord châteaux, Vendôme, etc. PLEASE NOTE: our coverage image, provided by the publishers, does not take into account which areas along the edge of the map are blocked by the index & the additional features – in its south-eastern & south-western corners the map does not go beyond Tours & Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire. Maps in Michelin’s Local Series of France have the same cartography (road network & place names shown on the maps) as the publishers’ Regional Series at 1;200, 000 but enlarged here to 1:150, 000 to provide greater clarity & larger, easier to read print size. Road network is presented in great detail, indicating width, motorway services & rest areas, dangerous or restricted entry roads, steep gradients, height & weight restrictions, etc. Scenic sections are highlighted. The maps also show selected cycle paths & nature trails. Railway lines are shown with stations & local airports are marked. Symbols indicate various places of interest, with additional star rating for best sights, based on the publishers’ Green Guides for French regions. Satellite-derived base with colouring for the forested areas & boundaries of national or regional parks shows the topography. In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, & other topographic features. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals & are indexed. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each title in addition

Includes:: a panel showing the area’s principal roads & places of interest, plus recommendations for sightseeing tours. Also provided are town centre maps of main cities, indicating principal traffic arteries, one way streets & places of interest. Only selected streets are named & listed in the accompanying index. Please click on the series link to see all the titles in this series.





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- Porto San Paolo area at 1:25, 000 in a series of contoured, GPS compatible maps from Ed. Abies. Overprint highlights
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Young & beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride her motorcycle on her own from the northernmost tip of Alaska to the southernmost tip of South America. Alone. Armed only with the Spanish words for `caution` & `cheese`, Lois was rather under-prepared for multiple bear sightings, bribing her way through borders, spending a night in a Mexican brothel & crashing her bike in the wilds of Patagonia. She most certainly got the adventure she craved, & her pulse-pounding, soul-searching adventure has already attracted fans worldwide
- a weblog that she kept whilst on her travels was receiving more than two-thousand hits a day. Her hilarious, brilliantly written travelog will appeal to anyone who`s ever dreamt of jacking-it-all-in & running away to see the world.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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