This is the savvy city breakers' pocket guide to seeing & doing more in the historical yet lively heart of the Emilia-Romagna region
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Bologna in the Pocket Guide series from Insight provides detailed commentary on a collection of itinerary based trips in a handy pocket format. Each guide has an historical & cultural introduction, profiling the growth of the region or city. There is also a large selection of localised & pedestrian friendly tour itineraries designed to take in the major sites, as well as a chapter on excursions to other destinations within easy reach. Further sections detail leisure activities including shopping, eating out, nightlife, festivals & local events with accompanying addresses & contact details where relevant. There is also practical guidance on transport, local services, language & accommodation. Each guide also has a large selection of colour photographs & a pull-out pocket map giving an overview of the region. ...

Ideal itineraries & top travel tips in a pocket-sized package. Now with free e Book, & a pull-out map. Plan your trip, plan perfect days & discover how to get around
- this Insight Guides pocket-sized book is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do & see in Bologna from top attractions like Neptune`s Fountain, to hidden gems, including Santo Stefano.· Compact, concise, & packed with essential information about Where to Go & What Do, this is an ideal on-the-move companion when you`re exploring Bologna· Covers Top Ten Attractions, including San Luca & Basilica di San Petronio & Perfect Day itinerary suggestions· Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history & culture· Contains an invaluable pull-out map, & essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around·

Includes:: an innovative extra that`s unique in the market
- all Pocket Guides come with a free e Book· Inspirational colour photography throughout· Sharp design & colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience



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Capital of Emilia Romagna, arguably the most civilised region of Italy, Bologna is renowned for its university, its cuisine & its traditional left-wing stance. The ultimate foodie destination, Bologna is also famous for its beautifully preserved historic centre, rich with exquisite palaces & mighty towers. Berlitz Pocket Guide Bologna is a br&-new, concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that the city has to offer. Inside Bologna Pocket Guide: Where To Go details all the key sights in the city, while handy maps on the cover flaps help you find your way around, & are cross-referenced to the text. Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip. Perfect Day provides an itinerary of the city. What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from browsing the innumerable pasta & fine food shops to catching a music recital in the most splendid venues. Essential information on Bologna`s culture, including a brief history of the city. Eating Out covers the city`s world-famous cuisine. Curated listings of the best hotels & restaurants.A-Z of all the practical information you`ll need. ...

Bologna Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is now published with digital cartography. ...

Bologna 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. ...

Bolshaya Laba area at 1:100, 000 in a series of detailed topographic survey maps of the Western Caucasus from the Russian Army Cartographic Units in Rostov-na-Donu, with all place names in the Cyrillic alphabet. All the maps are contoured, with peak heights & colouring/graphics for rocky outcrops, snow covered or exposed ice fields, glaciers, forested areas, etc. The maps show local roads, cart tracks & footpaths, as well as other information usually found on topographic survey maps at this scale: settlements & individual buildings, bridges, electricity transmission lines, etc. Most titles have geographical coordinates, as indicated in the individual descriptions. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet. Some titles also include additional street plans and/or other information for climbers: a table showing the chill factor for various combinations of temperature & wind speed, international codes for conveying information to mountain rescue services, & drawings with advice on basic first aid.* Map legend & all the text are in Russian only.** In this title:* contours are at 40m intervals. No geographical coordinates are shown. On the reverse is a table of the chill factor for various combinations of temperature & wind speed, plus first aid instructions.* *IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: deliveries from Russia are highly irregular & we are unable to guarantee delivery dates for maps or atlases which are not currently in stock.*
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On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia`s most illustrious institutions into scandal. Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on to preserve Russia`s lengthy artistic legacy & to mirror its neo-imperial ambitions. As renowned musicologist Simon Morrison shows in his tour-de-force account, the attack, & its torrid aftermath, underscored the importance of the Bolshoi to the art of ballet, to Russia, & to the world. With exclusive access to state archives & private sources, Morrison sweeps us through the history of the ballet, tracing the political ties that bind the institution to the varying Russian regimes, & detailing the birth of some of the best-loved ballets in the repertoire. From its disreputable beginnings in 1776, the Bolshoi became a point of pride for the tsarist empire after the defeat of Napoleon in 1812. After the revolution, Moscow was transformed into a global capital; meetings of the Communist Party were hosted at the Bolshoi, & the Soviet Union was signed into existence on its stage. Recently, a GBP450 million restoration has returned the Bolshoi to its former glory, even as prized talent has departed. The Theatre has been bombed, rigged with explosives & reinforced with cement. Its dancers have suffered unimaginable physical torment to climb the ranks. But, as Morrison reveals, the Bolshoi has transcended its own fraught history, surviving 250 years of artistic & political upheaval to define not only Russian culture but also ballet itself. ...

On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia`s most illustrious institutions into scandal. In Bolshoi Confidential, renowned musicologist Simon Morrison shows how the attack, & its torrid aftermath, underscored the importance of the Bolshoi to the art of ballet, to Russia, & to the world. With exclusive access to state archives & private sources, Morrison sweeps us through the history of the ballet, from its disreputable beginnings in 1776 to the recent GBP450 million restoration that has returned the Bolshoi to its former glory, even as its prized talent has departed. As Morrison reveals, the Bolshoi has transcended its own fraught history, surviving 250 years of artistic & political upheaval to define not only Russian culture, but also ballet itself. ...

Bolsover in 1897 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: two maps have been published for Bolsover to give good coverage of the town. Sheet 26.06, Bolsover, is the principal map & covers the town itself, including the Castle, St Mary's church, Market Place etc. Coverage extends north to Limekiln Field & Over Woodhouse, & westward to New Bolsover, including the tramway to the houses. An 1891 directory is on the reverse. Sheet 26.05, Bolsover West, extends coverage westward to Bolsover Colliery & a complicated railway system that

Includes:: the Midland Railway Bolsover station & Markham Junction. Coverage also

Includes:: Longcourse Farm & Long Duckmanton as well as extracts from Bulmer's History & Topography of Derbyshire 1895. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25



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