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Italy '98: The Complete Guide with the Cities, Lakes, Tuscan Hills and Baroque and Renaissa nce Treasures (Fodor's Gold Guides)

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I've searched high and low for a great comprehensive travel guide for Italy in preparation for a summer abroad. I found the Fodor's Gold Guide to be the easiest to use, the most informative, and the most comprehensive. It details each region of Italy, great festivals and exhibitions opening or reopening in 1998, hotels and restaurants of varied cost, and all the travel quirks that one may run into. I think it's a great book and a great buy if you've got time to spend wisely in Italy...and if you don't it even includes potential itineraries for those working on a short clock. It's practically and encyclopedia...a full sized map and useful phrase dictionary are included at the back! THE BOOK TO BUY, I can't say enough about it!!

I used this book in October 1998 and found it to be really good. In fact, as we were driving we'd get ideas from it when we'd see the name of a town coming up we'd check the book and often decide to stop at that town based on the information from the book. It contains copious amounts of information, even on smaller sized towns and regions. The maps are also useful. Twelve years later and I'm planning another trip to Italy and I'm going to bring the book along with me again. I will be bringing along another Fodor's Italy too. Happy traveling.