Excellent coverage of Piedmont, but more importantly, Val Chisone and Germansca, our home base.

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Product Description

A coastline of mountains plunging into turquoise sea, brightly painted fishing ports and beach resorts decked in flowers, and an inland region of gentle poplar rows and imposing alpine ranges: what more could you look for in a Mediterranean holiday?

This guide explores an area of Italy that’s drenched in warm southern charm. The Italian Riviera is one of nature’s most perfect suntraps, dotted with fascinating cities like glamorous Portofino and medieval Genoa. Piedmont offers brilliant walking country and Turin, with its excellent museums, baroque art and rich cuisine. The guide features 180 hand-picked bar, café and restaurant listings, alongside over 200 carefully chosen accommodation listings for every taste and budget. Detailed maps and plans make finding your way around a breeze, while practical travel advice is designed to make planning an itinerary simple. A beautiful photo essay brings the region to life in glorious technicolour, making you fall in love with it before you’ve even got there.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140559 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Simon Calder, Independent
'Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls, guidebook writers par excellence'

BBC Radio 4
'Overall the top marks go to Cadogan'

The Sunday Times
'Humorous, informed... irresistible'

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Customer Reviews

best of a small bunch
There seems to be only 2 or 3 books around which cover this region of Italy in any detail. This one is clearly written with the most passion and genuine local knowledge.

The historical background to the region is very detailed and, for a travel guide, not too dry. The suggestions the writers make e.g. places to eat, historical buildings, markets, I have always found to be accurate and trustworthy. The book is laid out intuitively too, starting in the west and working east through the region making places easy to locate.

I think the key to really enjoying this region is exploring. This guide makes good suggestions but I've usually found there's quite a lot more to discover than this book lets on. Perhaps that's a good thing.

One complaint about this book (and other guides to this region do a far worse job of this...) would be related to the quality and usefulness of the maps.

Many places simply aren't deemed worthy of a town centre map, a shame, especially with bigger places, such as San Remo. The maps that are supplied, Genoa for example, are detailed but practically unusable because there's no grid or key. The guide may mention a fine restaurant on a certain street but how are you going to find that street? (And Italy has lots of small, hard to find streets!)