Product Description

Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide..."The best guide available. Packed to the brim with colour photos, maps and essential information" - Reader review. Capture the essence of Italy, from viewing Renaissance masterpieces and visiting picturesque hilltowns to bathing on some of Europe's best beaches. Photos, illustrations, unique 3D models and birds-eye-view maps of all the major sites ensure you don't miss a thing. Clue up on the basics, from the most comfortable places to stay (whatever your budget) to the best bars and restaurants. You can discover where the locals go, enjoy relaxing entertainment, amazing sites and retail therapy, exciting sports, scenic walks or drives, thematic tours and colourful festivals. This guide offers all you need for an unforgettable trip. It is the winner of the "Guardian & Observer" 'Best Guide Books' and "Wanderlust Magazine" Silver Award for 'Top Guidebook'.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95009 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

Red Magazine, May 1, 2006
"The best grown-up guidebooks that children will actually read"

Customer Reviews

Planning a holiday?
This book proved most useful when planning our 2 week holiday to Italy.

In fact most of the Eyewitness books are good for this. They're packed with diagrams and colour photos that are not only pretty to look at but also very useful.

We didn't take this book with us on our trip as it's very heavy, but as a starting point for planning a trip it's perfect. We sifted through the book and said "I wanna go to that place/that looks nice" and made up our itinerary from there.

It doesn't have too much detail on smaller town as you'd expect, but the thing I really like about this book, is that after our holiday we still look through it. "Been there" we say like sad individuals!

And unlike other books like Rough Guide & Lonely Planet (which we took with us), these books are still interesting to look through. I've since given my LP away as it's only really useful when yer on the road. This book however still makes for a great coffee-table book, packed with fab photos & info. Perfect for the armchair traveller, or holiday planner in us all!

great guide
This guide is really great. It is much easier to digest than the lonely planet guide and has all the information you need for planning a trip as well as using while you are there. The maps are ok as a starting point but you can get better ones from tourist offices for free anyway. If you know exactly where you are going then get the specific guide but if not this one is really useful. Its only problem is its weight which does get annoying to carry around all day.

Dorling Kindersley
I really love DK's Eyewitness travel guides and always buy them when planning a trip - they ensure that I don't book myself into a one-horse town! They use incredible photography and their guides to landmarks and sites mean that you don't have to buy guidebooks when you arrive - so they are really good value for money. Love them!!