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." Amazon Reader review. Tuscany was the birthplace of the Renaissance, and this guide directs you to its finest artistic treasures. For travellers who appreciate the visual arts, no other guide can compete with DK's hundreds of colour photographs and its unique 3-D aerial view illustrations, which accompany an extremely informative text. In this new expanded edition you’ll find four specially devised walking tours and four suggestions for great days out in Florence as well as a comprehensive selection of hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment venues. With four chapters dedicated to Florence alone, five chapters on the surrounding regions of Tuscany, and colour maps of all the regions, this guide has earned a place as one of the highlights of this award-winning series. Winner of the Guardian & Observer ‘Best Guide Books' Award and Wanderlust Magazine Silver Award for 'Top Guidebook'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #236942 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

Review
"A pleasurable read with ravishing photography plus maps and plans of supreme quality.' The Observer The book was spot on each time' Amazon Reader review'

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
This is the best guide of Tuscany we have found so far to prepare our holiday, we have read other DK guides before and always been happy with the information they provide.

The chapter on accommodation is particularly useful.

The book consists of 336 beautifully illustrated pages with superb maps and street by street city plans with guide walks, it also has a road map in the back cover.

With a third of the guide is dedicated to Florence there is plenty of information on the main buildings, palaces and churches and features a large number of little villages in the countryside.

Another great publication from DK
I am a fan of these publications - they make it very easy to plan a journey, as well as providing a great starting point to find out more about the history of a city/area. This book proved very useful in preparing for a visit to February in February 07, and I would not have been without it. Of particular use are the aerial maps, which make locating oneself much easier when lost! The articles, although necessarily short, offer a glimpse into the glories that can be found - rather than reading the book, get your tickets out there, and let the book be your guide rather than your only source of knowledge.

Lots on Florence, some on Siena, less on other places..
Fair enough - the title lets you know what you're getting, but those of us who only spent a day in Florence and the rest of the two weeks elsewhere might feel a bit short-changed. The street maps of Florence and Siena are excellent for getting a general idea of where you are, but not so good for actually finding a particular restaurant which the guide lists.

The ideal combination is this and the Lonely Planet guide to Tuscany, which is lighter on the pictures but much more detailed.