Product Description

Florence has the greatest collection of Renaissance art in the world, and a character list that reads like a Who's Who of the period's greatest artists and thinkers - Dante, Leonardo, Michaelangelo - not to mention the powerful families who financed their work - the Medici and the Strozzi. Evidence of their lasting influence abounds today, including the discovery of a Leonardo fresco beneath a painting by Vasari, and the unearthing of Michaelangelo's plans for a church facade. The city's challenge today is to manage the resultant tourist hordes; a new entrance to an enlarged Uffizi should double tourist numbers to the gallery, while a tramline is intended to reduce the city's traffic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79188 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"A great guide" --Irish Times

Review
"colourful, easy to use and bang up to date...Quite superb."

About the Author
Daniel Smith lives in London, where he studied Renaissance literature. He has written for and edited a number of Time Out guides, including London, Milan and Havana, while his literary criticism has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and Time Out's 1000 Books to Change Your Life. He is also editor of the Time Out Florence Shortlist.

Customer Reviews

Best Florence guidebook
Having spent a day in Florence with my mother using Lonely Planet and my dad using Rick Steeves - it was a nightmare! Restaurant recommendations were touristy or rubbish and it was hard to get around. I went and bought Time Out Florence from a bookshop near our hotel because of previous good experiences with Time Out Rome. The recommendations were spot on, and were equally good for a side trip to Pisa (botanical gardens were lovely and the chocolate shop and gelateria recommended on the river were fantastic). I highly recommend this book and encourage you to try as many recommended gelateria as possible - the three we tried were amazing.

florence overview
excellent supplement to Lonely Planet guide - either would do but this has more interesting nuggets of info and better at placing it in context

Time Out Books
I have now purchased two Time Out Books - Florence and Venice and found them very easy to read and informative