Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Greece, 3e (THE GREEN GUIDE) [Paperback]

Michelin Travel Publications (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Michelin Green Guide: Greece English Edition | Publication Date: August 1, 1997

This addition to the acclaimed Michelin Green Guide series provides travellers with a comprehensive guide to the cultural and natural highlights of Greece'

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you're planning a trip to Greece and want to know your Ionic from your Doric, Hephaistos from Hermes, and Minoan from Mycenaean, try this little green guide for highly detailed accounts of fine art, historic monuments, and scenic routes. If you expect to be driving, you'll want to purchase the companion Michelin map (number 980), which has corresponding numbers to many of the sites listed in the guide.

Written in a no-nonsense style that leans toward the dry side, Michelin squeezes an impressive amount of information into an easy-to-pack-along booklet of just under 400 pages. Here's an example from a section on Paleokastrítsa on the island of Corfu:

The road runs to the end of the promontory where the monastery of Paleokastrítsa was founded in the 13C; the present building dates from the 18C; the church contains some precious icons. This may be the site of Scheria, the city of Alcinoüs, king of the Phaeacians, who gave hospitality to Odysseus. The Ermónes creek may be the spot where Nausicaa was approached by Odysseus.

The book includes an overview map of principal sites and itineraries, information on landscape, antiquity, art in antiquity, the Byzantine Empire to the 19th century, Greece since independence, local arts and traditions, modern language and literature, cinema, and food and wine. Michelin's star ratings help you determine how to prioritize your trip with "worth a journey," "worth a detour," and "interesting" listings. This guide does not list specific accommodations. --Kathryn True

Product Details

• Paperback: 375 pages
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Pubns; 3rd edition (August 1, 1997)
• Language: Japanese
• ISBN-10: 2061520030
• ISBN-13: 978-2061520031
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 4.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,792,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars michelin green guide greece, April 24, 2000

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This review is from: Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Greece, 3e (THE GREEN GUIDE) (Paperback)

Laconic and small, a perfect book to actually carry in your bag while walking around a city. The Green Guides direct you toward the most interesting sites and then the most interesting features of that site.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Indeed one of the best, July 9, 2006

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This review is from: Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Greece, 3e (THE GREEN GUIDE) (Paperback)

I would like to recommend this guide to people that would like to visit Greece. Originally I am from Greece and several times I've been asked to make some suggestion to friends about what travel guides to use. I've done some research on bookstores and I think this guide is well written very concise and covers the most important places. I think the writers must have really travelled around Greece because they recommend places, like my hometown, that are not very well known but they offer some very important sights of interest. I have also learned things I didn't know before. In the past I had bought a similar guide for New England and I was very satisfied.