Palladio’s Rome is a combined edition, English translation of Andrea Palladio’s (1508-1580) enormously successful guidebooks to the city, allowing visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their cultural tourist predecessors did four & a half centuries ago. Palladio published two enormously successful guides to the churches & antiquities of Rome in 1554, striving to be both scholarly & popular. He invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of the eternal city’s ancient & medieval wonders, & to follow the pilgrimage routes from one church to the next. The guide is contains location maps of the church pilgrimages & is illustrated with drawings, building plans & modern day colour photographs. ...

Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:50, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, with vivid presentation of the terrain & an overprint for long-distance GR hiking trails. The series provides an excellent alternative to the much smaller sheets in the civilian or military surveys produced for the whole of Spain. The Catalan 50K series has not only a much larger area per sheet (each map covers one comarca, an administrative division of a province) than the maps from the national surveys, but also has more colourful, elegant & clear cartography with contours at 20m intervals, hill shading & fine graphics to portray the relief, vegetation types & landmarks. Most maps also have more tourist-related information, with an overprint highlighting long-distance GR trails & the Via Verde routes. Mountain refuges are marked & a range symbols indicate various places of interest including historical monuments, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Four different types of interesting locations are highlighted: picturesque towns or villages, individual isolated building or monuments, natural sites, & hydrographic features such as waterfalls. The maps have a 5km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Map legend is in Catalan only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Catalonia at 1:50, 000 from the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, with vivid presentation of the terrain & an overprint for long-distance GR hiking trails. The series provides an excellent alternative to the much smaller sheets in the civilian or military surveys produced for the whole of Spain. The Catalan 50K series has not only a much larger area per sheet (each map covers one comarca, an administrative division of a province) than the maps from the national surveys, but also has more colourful, elegant & clear cartography with contours at 20m intervals, hill shading & fine graphics to portray the relief, vegetation types & landmarks. Most maps also have more tourist-related information, with an overprint highlighting long-distance GR trails & the Via Verde routes. Mountain refuges are marked & a range symbols indicate various places of interest including historical monuments, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Four different types of interesting locations are highlighted: picturesque towns or villages, individual isolated building or monuments, natural sites, & hydrographic features such as waterfalls. The maps have a 5km UTM grid, with latitude & longitude values shown for the map corners. Map legend is in Catalan only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

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- Yllästunturi area of Finland at 1:50, 000 in a series of beautiful & informative maps of popular outdoor leisure areas
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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

Palm Springs & the Desert Cities in California on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. An inset provides a road map of Palm Springs & vicinity. Communities covered by this map include Coachella, Cathedral City, Desert hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Twentynine Palms & Yucca Valley. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. ...

Palm Springs in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Topographic coverage of the Balearic Islands at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional – 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). The MTN50 series was begun in late 1990s. Each map covers 28.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the 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. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Palma de Mallorca on an indexed street plan at 1:10, 500 from Telstar Distrimapas, Spain’s leading publisher of city maps, with an enlargement showing the city centre in greater detail, plus an indexed road map of Mallorca on the reverse. On one side is an indexed street plan of the city indicating locations of car parks, taxi ranks, petrol stations, etc., with main public buildings & places interest clearly named. The city’s historic heart is shown in greater detail at 1:7, 000 with 16 main sights prominently highlighted & listed in the index with their opening hours. Also indicated on the plans is the restricted parking zone operating on weekdays, with English language notes how the ORA system works. On the reverse is an indexed road map of Majorca at 1:150, 000 with altitude colouring to show the topography & symbols highlighting various places of interest. (Please note: road network may not necessarily be up to date). Also provided is a list of useful contact numbers for tourist information, consulates, etc. ...

Palma de Mallorca on a handy-size street plan at 1:15, 000 from Mair Dumont, printed on sturdy, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper, with & enlargement of the town’s historic centre, on the reverse a road map of Mallorca at 1:200, 000, plus a diagram of the island’s metro/rail network. On one side is a plan of Palma de Mallorca with coverage extending beyond the city’s motorway ring, along the coast Sant Agustí in the west & the island’s Son Sant Joan Airport in the east. Metro stations are clearly marked. The plan also shows pedestrianized streets, tourist information centres, etc. Map legend

Includes:: English. The plan is accompanied by an enlargement presenting Palma’s historic centre in greater detail at 1:7, 500, a small road map of the city’s environs, plus a diagram of Mallorca’s metro & railway network. Street index is on the reverse, together with a list of useful addresses & contact details for various facilities. The reverse side also

Includes:: an indexed road map of Mallorca at 1:200, 000, with the island’s mountainous areas including Serra de Tramuntana well presented by relief shading. Scenic routes are highlighted, as are various places of interest including best natural sites.



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