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Esteban Ess
VINE VOICE on July 4, 2014
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This guidebook to Italy is enjoyable to use for planning your next journey and makes good reading material as well. The photographs are excellent. The maps include country overview, regional overviews and a number of detailed street maps for walking and orienting yourself in the major cities. The book highlights six regions of Italy and presents them in a color coded theme with colored page edges that make it easy to thumb to the region of interest. The book's size makes it a great take-along and it will fill some time and whet your appetite for Italy and its food and attractions while you are in transit to Italy by air or by sea or rail. It is a must read before making travel plans and reservations. The book can help you to carve out a trip of however many weeks you plan to devote to Italy. But, the cautious traveler knows that all of Italy and its variegated neighborhoods, out of the way attractions, unique museums and more cannot possibly be stuffed into a 400 page guidebook except by abbreviating information and leaving some things out.
Still, this guidebook provides me with just about every piece of tourist information that I like to carry with me when I travel to new places. There are ample orientation maps, capsule information on major sites to see, museums, places of special interest, neighborhoods, and so forth. The Survival Guide in the back of the book provides a lot of know-how in such areas as: public holidays, business hours, tours, customs regulations, medical services, discount cards, tourist offices, and more. These are not detailed instructions, but they are enough to get the seasoned traveler quickly on track. There is a capsule history of Italy with a time scale. Also some day trips.Read more ›
Still, this guidebook provides me with just about every piece of tourist information that I like to carry with me when I travel to new places. There are ample orientation maps, capsule information on major sites to see, museums, places of special interest, neighborhoods, and so forth. The Survival Guide in the back of the book provides a lot of know-how in such areas as: public holidays, business hours, tours, customs regulations, medical services, discount cards, tourist offices, and more. These are not detailed instructions, but they are enough to get the seasoned traveler quickly on track. There is a capsule history of Italy with a time scale. Also some day trips.Read more ›
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I'll update this once I have a chance to actually travel with this guide, but for now Lonely Planet's survival guide could be instrumental in helping you plan and make the most your Eye'tie dream vacation. It's neatly color coded to help you discover Italy from Switzerland to Sicily in six subsections: 1) The Colosseum, Rome & the Vatican, 2) Veneto, Venice & Bologna, 3) Tuscany, Umbria & Florence, 4) Milan, the Lakes & Piedmont, 5) Napals, Pompeii & the Amalfi Coast 6) Finally Sicily and Southern Italy. Within each section you get maps, related websites, highlights, local info and bullets for must-see locations, Art and experiences not to be missed (including open hours and prices). You also get itineraries and trip planning ideas, they've even included advice from locals (like authors, tour guides and landmark administrators). You'll find thumbnail history on many locations and specific book and film suggestions to find more info and prepare for you trip(s). I found Seasonal Food and Festival recommendations very useful, for example we may synchronize our trip with NOLA's Mardi Gras holiday with Italy's Carnevale period. A couple if drawbacks on this edition is the foldout map included with this book is of Rome only (a possible redundancy if you have gotten Lone Planet's Guide to Rome separately), also at over 400 pages this edition is more chunky and broad than many other travel books (Frommer's and Fodor's are favs with us) possibly making it inconvenient once you're out of the planning stage and into the actual traveling.
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The problem with a small guidebook and a country with such vast and diverse sights to see like Italy is that it will inevitably leave you wanting more. If you had always wanted to visit Italy and plan a trip and had nowhere to start, this is a marvelous book to get you going.
The book itself is broken down into 6 geographical areas, all covered fairly well with places of interest, well-labeled maps and restaurants and bars. The book has a good balance between helpful, informative photos and text, not making you overwhelmed like some of the other LP books in the Discover series. There are helpful itineraries for each geographic location as well as most of the country, covering everything from a few days to a few weeks. Transit information between the two is a bit limited (look up seat61 on the web - you'll thank me for it). I found the maps and information for Rome and Venice quite nice and helpful and useful, albeit limited since it's a small book. From memory of my experiences there, I felt good with what was presented.
The LP Discover Italy isn't a great travel guide - however, if I were planning a trip to Italy for the first time and didn't know where to start, this book would give me lots of ideas. I'd feel confident that I could use this book and sketch out rough outline to a 2 week trip in Italy without any issues. Granted, the more research you do before you go the better your trip will be - but this is a fine book to get started with.
The book itself is broken down into 6 geographical areas, all covered fairly well with places of interest, well-labeled maps and restaurants and bars. The book has a good balance between helpful, informative photos and text, not making you overwhelmed like some of the other LP books in the Discover series. There are helpful itineraries for each geographic location as well as most of the country, covering everything from a few days to a few weeks. Transit information between the two is a bit limited (look up seat61 on the web - you'll thank me for it). I found the maps and information for Rome and Venice quite nice and helpful and useful, albeit limited since it's a small book. From memory of my experiences there, I felt good with what was presented.
The LP Discover Italy isn't a great travel guide - however, if I were planning a trip to Italy for the first time and didn't know where to start, this book would give me lots of ideas. I'd feel confident that I could use this book and sketch out rough outline to a 2 week trip in Italy without any issues. Granted, the more research you do before you go the better your trip will be - but this is a fine book to get started with.
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Note: I would start with "How To Use This Book" on page 414 for important symbols (very small), that you'll need throughout the book.
Back to the beginning, this timely, up-to-date published volume (April 2014), is divided into 6 color-coded sections of the country, and then lists "Highlights," " The Best Of," "Walking Tours/ Itineraries," and other sections pertinent to each of those color-coded countries. There is also an "In Focus" guide on Italy today, and a VERY well-indexed "Survival Guide" for a variety of subjects such as customs, climate, accommodations, health insurance, money, opening hours, gay and lesbian travelers, women travelers, tourist information, visas and much more.
Many of this book's suggestions on tourist areas listed as "Don't Miss," are right on target, but as I have stated with all of these books, find out where you would like to travel and the places you would like to see the most, and then get in touch with their Department of Tourism to supplement the information in this travel guide. The more knowledge you have, the better.
Between this very well-written book and my stunning aerial view DVD's on "Visions of Italy" - (Northern and Southern Style), and "Visions of Sicily," a trip to Italy is definitely upcoming SOON!
Back to the beginning, this timely, up-to-date published volume (April 2014), is divided into 6 color-coded sections of the country, and then lists "Highlights," " The Best Of," "Walking Tours/ Itineraries," and other sections pertinent to each of those color-coded countries. There is also an "In Focus" guide on Italy today, and a VERY well-indexed "Survival Guide" for a variety of subjects such as customs, climate, accommodations, health insurance, money, opening hours, gay and lesbian travelers, women travelers, tourist information, visas and much more.
Many of this book's suggestions on tourist areas listed as "Don't Miss," are right on target, but as I have stated with all of these books, find out where you would like to travel and the places you would like to see the most, and then get in touch with their Department of Tourism to supplement the information in this travel guide. The more knowledge you have, the better.
Between this very well-written book and my stunning aerial view DVD's on "Visions of Italy" - (Northern and Southern Style), and "Visions of Sicily," a trip to Italy is definitely upcoming SOON!
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