Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours [Paperback]

Marina Tagliaferri (Author), Barbara Fisher (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 26, 2002 | Series: Best Loved Driving Tours

Frommer's Driving Tours are packed with detailed, color-coded maps and stunning full-color photographs. Each guide outlines dozens of driving tour options and then helps you plan your route with exact directions, distances, and driving times. You'll see all the top sights and then have the flexibility to discover the hidden pleasures of each destination -- our suggested routes include scenic detours and stops for spectacular views, easy walks, shopping, dining, and fun breaks for travelers with children. We'll show you how to enjoy some of the world's most spectacular drives!

This first edition of Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours guides you and your car through several different regions -- including the areas along and around Lake Maggiore; the Lakes of Varese and Lake Lugano; Lake Como; Bergamo, Brescia, and Lake Iseo; Lake Garda, and The Veneto. It features:

• 25 distinctive, easy-to-use itineraries
• More than 100 beautiful full-color maps and photos
• Recommendations on the best hotels and the restaurants along each route
• Exact directions, distances, and driving times for each route
• All the sights along the way -- with highlights for history buffs, nature lovers, and families traveling with kids
• Sceneic side trips, special moments, and recommended walks
• Detailed, accurate full-color route-planning maps

Whether you're seeking the vineyards of Franciacorta, the paintings of the Convent of the Annunziata, or simply want to explore this beautiful region, Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours is the only guide you'll need to see the best of Northern Italy by car.

Editorial Reviews

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Frommer's Driving Tours are packed with detailed, color-coded maps and stunning full-color photographs. Each guide outlines dozens of driving tour options and then helps you plan your route with exact directions, distances, and driving times. You'll see all the top sights and then have the flexibility to discover the hidden pleasures of each destination -- our suggested routes include scenic detours and stops for spectacular views, easy walks, shopping, dining, and fun breaks for travelers with children. We'll show you how to enjoy some of the world's most spectacular drives!

This first edition of Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours guides you and your car through several different regions -- including the areas along and around Lake Maggiore; the Lakes of Varese and Lake Lugano; Lake Como; Bergamo, Brescia, and Lake Iseo; Lake Garda, and The Veneto. It features:

• 25 distinctive, easy-to-use itineraries
• More than 100 beautiful full-color maps and photos
• Recommendations on the best hotels and the restaurants along each route
• Exact directions, distances, and driving times for each route
• All the sights along the way -- with highlights for history buffs, nature lovers, and families traveling with kids
• Sceneic side trips, special moments, and recommended walks
• Detailed, accurate full-color route-planning maps

Whether you're seeking the vineyards of Franciacorta, the paintings of the Convent of the Annunziata, or simply want to explore this beautiful region, Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours is the only guide you'll need to see the best of Northern Italy by car.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Frommer's; 1 edition (April 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764565885
• ISBN-13: 978-0764565885
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Breathtaking Drives on Earth, April 22, 2004

By 

Barbara Rose (BornToInspire.com) - See all my reviews
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If you want to take a drive, and soak in some of Earth's most breathtaking sites while making interesting and fun stops along the way, this book is a fantastic resource.

I used to live in this region, and my favorite routes and lakes are Lake Maggiore, Lake Como, and Lake Lugano.

In this book you are given great suggestions as to where to stay, eat, which castles you can visit, as well as useful info if you are traveling with children. This is a most breathtaking place, and the summer months (July and August) are the best times to travel in this region.
Highly recommended if you really want to see the area, and experience a peaceful, exciting, and wondrous adventure.

4.0 out of 5 stars A great starting point for driving Northern Italy, October 4, 2011

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M. Reynolds (SF, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frommer's Northern Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Paperback)

We wanted to spend 2 weeks in Northern Italy, seeing and doing as much as possible without feeling like it was a forced march - and this book is a great place to start IF you want to do and discover things on your own. This is NOT a Rick Steves' "what to see, where to stay and where to eat" book. From a starting point (moving West to East across N. Italy), it gives a series of drives and lists towns and "sights" on those routes. For us this was great - we drove many of the routes, adding to and leaving out based on the weather and what we wanted to do and see - and we had a great time. For us, this book was a super helpful starting point.

So why not 5 stars?! - well, even with a GPS (and you will want a GPS in Italy - and it is cheaper to purchase one or buy a chip for Italy rather than rent one if you are there for 2 weeks!) let's just say that it is a fairly thin book and you have to have a bit of a sense of adventure as some of the descriptions/directions are also a bit "thin". But for us, it just added to the adventure!