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Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide to Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Top 10)

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Buongiorno!
I recommend all the Eyewitness Travel guide books to anyone who is planning a trip to Italy. I give this book as a freebie to all my clients who sign up for the tours of Tuscany that I lead each year. They can take it with them to all the day trips - it's light, without compromising the quality of images and useful information on the most beautiful stops in Tuscany.

Being from Italy (Florence to be exact), I was surprised to see how accurate and easy to find the information was, while at the same time, keeping it concise and essential.

If you'd like a more thorough book on all of Italy, I recommend the "Italy" guidebook, which is also by DK Eyewitness travel. However this last one is not light, and you may have to leave it home before going on your trip. Full of useful information.

My wife and I love the Top 10 series. We always buy a Frommers or Rick Steves book for the trip's planning, but the Top 10 is a must for the trip itself. It'll fit in a pocket (a long one), and will provide quick and easy references to the most important sights, as well as maps and public transportation routes.

The guide is a good compliment to Eyewitness: Italy, more so than the individual book on Florence.

If you actually plan to visit Tuscany, don't buy this guidebook. It is a joke. If this is what the Top 10 guidebooks are about, I wonder that they have any audience at all. Information is sparse, descriptions are incomplete, cover blurbs can't be located in the text.