This updated 2nd edition of this delightful walking guide whose unique sellingpoint is walking routes on `bird`s eye view` (isometric) mapping. Not just this, but the walks are informative & fun. Exploring Venice with this guide is likebeing taken by a friend who knows all the best restaurants, shops andattractions. It will introduce not only the famous sights but the atmosphere ofthe city as a whole. The new & contemporary cover emphasises these benefits, making it clear that the beautiful mapping is uniquely easy to use because itshows the street plan as well as the look of your surroundings. The routes are inall the most interesting areas of Venice, plus a few on the outskirts. Most areabout an hour long or can be joined together easily for long expeditions. ...

Venice 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. ...

Wallpaper City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, & drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up & coming areas, landmark buildings in an ' Architour', design centres, & the best shops to buy items unique to that city. Wallpaper City Guides present travellers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, most exciting, & the most beautiful of that particular city. As well as looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority, & have tabbed sections so that the tourist can easily find what they are looking for. There are maps, rate & currency cards, colour-coded parts of the city, & an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form & function. ...

Venice 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. ...

Henry James wrote of Venice: ` You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it... ` whereas Mark Twain found St Mark`s `so ugly... propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk`. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different. John Julius Norwich has put together a dazzling anthology, drawing on the writings of Byron, Goethe, Wagner, Casanova, Jan Morris, Robert Browning & Horace Walpole, among many others. The pieces range from the sixth century, when the early lagoon-dwellers lived `like sea-birds in huts, built on heaps of osiers` to the exquisite city of eighteenth-century revellers & nineteenth-century art lovers. The city`s many diferent guises are shown as both its citizens & visitors saw them. This wonderful volume from the Traveller`s Reader series also contains maps, engravings & notes on history, art, architecture & everyday city life. ...

Venice, Verona & Treviso in the City & Regions series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of cities & their surrounding regions & including some of the most detailed listings & directories of places to eat & drink & things to do & see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment & nightlife, in addition to principal sights & attractions, with expert local writers providing an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city. This unique quality has ensured that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. The surrounding region is also incorporated in some guides, with information on the principal attractions, sites, landscapes & the best way of exploring them. Each of the Time Out city & region guides has a similar layout, allowing visitors to explore their destination easily. An ...

The Venice Biennale is one of the world`s biggest cultural attractions, growing every year with the `art tourist` market. This book captures the spirit of the Biennale & all that creatively inspiring about Venice, including many hidden gems. The Venice Book will help the art lover plan their perfect trip in & around Venice, Biennale year or not. ...

The latest cookbook from the award-winning author of POLPORussell Norman returns to Venice
- the city that inspired POLPO
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There`s an old Venetian saying
- magna e bevi che a vita xe un lampo
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Elusive & fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city`s foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international & native: here we meet Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro, Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele D` Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope & Elio Zorzi. Variously a City of the Soul, The Watery City, The Merchant City, City Afloat, City at Play, The Cruel City, City of Courtesans, City of Arts, City of Flavours, The Haunted City & City of the Future, Venice is captured here in all her moods. ...