Berlitz Pocket Guide Milan is a concise, full-colour travel guide that gives you reliable, user-friendly information, alongside vivid photography, on Italy's fashion capital. Milan has been Italy's leading fashion centre for years, not to mention its economic powerhouse, but today it's much more
- for style & contemporary buzz, no other city comes close. From the sumptuous Gothic cathedral, a magnificent architectural wedding cake in the main piazza, to the chic shops & regenerated canal quarter with its hip bars & cafes, we guide you to the best places to visit & things to do in the city. Green initiatives have enhanced the city's parks, & on experimental 'no-traffic' days, the city centre is awash with bicycles, & birdsong can be heard coming from palatial secret gardens. To inspire you, we start with a rundown of Milan's Top 10 Attractions, followed by an itinerary for a Perfect Day. The What to Do chapter offers a selection of ways to spend your spare time, from the buzzing nightlife & inimitable shopping to where to get the best coffee. All the essential background information is here, including an overview of the city's history, & how to book the opera or visit Leonardo's Last Supper. There are carefully chosen listings of the best hotels & restaurants in Milan & an A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.
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Milan in the Luxe city guides series, which are slim & small enough to fit easily in a pocket or handbag. Information is distilled from elite suggestions by city residents, specially selected for their style, knowledge & expertise. Luxe guides aim at the upper end of the market & subjectively edit to choose the very best recommendations for shopping, restaurants, leisure options & nightlife. Half day shopping & activity itineraries are suggested for you to mix & match your visit to suit your timetable. When folded close the cardboard guide slots into its own protective plastic frame. Vanity Fair magazine calls them ...

In recent years, Milan has become a metropolis involved in transformations that are well worthy of interest for the architectural & urbanistic experiments that have been carried out. The complex dialectics between innovation & respect for the existing urban form is the distinctive characteristic of the city: recovery of downgraded neighbourhoods, redevelopment of decommissioned industrial zones, technological experimentation, & vertical development are the aspects that mark Milan as a strongly contemporary city. This guide is being launched in answer to a moment of great focus on Milan. As it guides the reader through the wide range of contemporary architectural projects, it emphasises the unique nature of its complex character. The transformations are still underway & for this reason, it is difficult to foresee how a city of such size will manage to redefine its personal equilibrium: but this too is part of the contemporary nature of Milan. ...

Milan & The Italian Lakes in New Holland’s Globetrotter Travel Guide series, comprising a range of practical & accessible guides to a number of cities, regions & countries worldwide. Globetrotter guides incorporate essential information in an easy-to-carry & easy-to-reference format. They provide visitors with an introduction highlighting the country’s ‘must see’ areas, allowing readers to make the most of their time away. Presented in a paperback PVC format, each guide in the series provides vital tips for visitors &

Includes:: information on the best places to stay, eat & shop, star-rated top attractions, detailed regional profiles & recommendations of the best tours & excursions. Individual titles also have a separate, pull-out overview map in the rear pocket of the guide that serves as a companion to the book itself. An introductory section profiles the destination with details of the l&, a brief history, government & economy & the people. Every chapter is summarised in the ‘ At-a-Glance’ sections at the end of each chapter. There is also a Travel Tips section at the back of each guide providing practical guidance & information on tourist information services, entry requirements, customs, health requirements, getting there, what to pack, money matters, accommodation, transport, business hours, time difference, electricity, health precautions, useful phrases, personal safety, emergencies, etiquette & tipping.

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Milan & the Lakes in the Frommer's Day By Day series is a pocket-sized guide ideal for short trips, covering a variety of budgets. The best sights of each destination are listed in convenient full-day tours for one, two or three days such as: thematic tours for interests including art, architecture & history are described, allowing you to get the most out of your time; walking tours take you around each destination ...

Milan 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. ...

Milan & its environs on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant, double-sided map with excellent clear cartography, plus street plans of town centres of Milan, Como, Bergamo, Monza, Lecco, Varese, Stresa & Vimercate. On one side is a map at 1:52, 500 of the city’s immediate environs, showing detail down to many isolated individual farmhouses. Road junctions are very clearly drawn &, where appropriate, named. The map is accompanied by a street plan of central Milan & a diagram of the city’s metro network. On the reverse a map at 1:100, 000 covering the area mainly north of Milan, including the southern part of the lakes Como, Maggiore & Lecco. Relief shading shows the topography & regional parks are clearly marked. The map is accompanied by street plans of local towns: Bergamo with a separate enlargement of the Old Town, plus Como, Monza, Lecco, Varese, Stresa & Vimercate. Unusually for street plans, where appropriate, e.g. for Bergamo’s Old Town, the plans have contour lines. Neither of the two road maps has geographical coordinates or an index. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Milan & Italian Lakes in Michelin’s ‘ Must Sees’ series is a lightweight guide containing must see information, must see sights, must do activities & must know practicalities graded using Michelin’s time-honoured star rating system. The guide opens with a section of useful ‘ Must Know’ information that

Includes:: a calendar of events, practical tips on getting by & a summary of Michelin selected star attractions. The ‘ Must See’ section of the guide look at shopping, nightlife & theatre, hotels & dining, parks & gardens, neighbourhoods, landmarks, museums, historic sites, practical information, events, tips & excursions. The ‘ Must Do’ chapter

Includes:: a focus on activities for children, whereas places to eat & places to stay are reviewed in the ‘ Must Eat’ & ‘ Must Stay’ chapters.



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Milan & the Lakes 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 ...

The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Milan & the Lakes will lead you straight to the best attractions Milan & the Lakes has to offer. The guide

Includes:: unique cutaways, floorplans & reconstructions of the city`s stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You`ll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars & shops for all budgets in this fully updated & expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best markets & nightspots to great attractions for children. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide also

Includes:: in-depth coverage of all the unforgettable sights & comes complete with a free pull-out city map, clearly marked with sights from the guidebook & an easy-to-use street index. The map has detailed street views of all the key areas, plus there are transport maps & information on how to get around the city, & there`s even a chart showing the distances between major sights for walkers. The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Milan & the Lakes shows you what others only tell you.



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