Michelin Green Guide Provence (Michelin Green Guide: Provence English Edition) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Michelin Green Guide: Provence English Edition | Publication Date: January 15, 2008

The long-standing Michelin Travel Guides are an ideal travel companion for travelers who really want to connect with the world. Get to know the local way of life through detailed background information on the country, people, and culture. Quickly identify the best places to visit using Michelin's star rating system. The best sites are highlighted on the sites map or you can follow a pre-planned driving tour. With the Michelin Travel Guide to Provence, bring Dumas' Edmond Dantes to life at the Chateau d'If or envision the popes wandering the maze of corridors at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. Play boules in the neighborhoods of Marseille or visit ancient Rome at the Maison Carrée of Nîmes.

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One Team: A Devotion to Quality There’s just one reason our team is dedicated to producing quality travel publications—you, our reader. We want you to get the maximum benefit from your trip—and from your money. In today’s multiple-choice world of travel, the options are many, perhaps overwhelming. In our guidebooks, we try to minimize the guesswork involved with travel. We scout out the attractions, prioritize them with star ratings, and describe what you’ll discover when you visit them. To help you orient yourself, we provide colorful and detailed, but easy-to-follow maps. Floor plans of some of the major museums help you plan your tour. Throughout the guides, we offer practical information, touring tips and suggestions for finding the best views of the city, a good place for a break or where to make that special purchase. Lodging and dining are always a big part of travel, so we compile a selection of hotels and restaurants that we think convey the feel of the city, and organize them by geographic area and price. We also highlight shopping, recreational and entertainment venues, especially the hot spots. If you’re short on time, two- and four-day itineraries are included so you can hit the highlights and quickly absorb the best of the destination. For those of you who love to experience a destination on foot, we add walking tours, complete with a map. And we list other companies who offer boat, bus or guided walking tours of the city, some with culinary, historical or other themes. In short, we test and retest, check and recheck to make sure that our guidebooks are truly just that: a personalized guide to help you make the most of your visit. After all, we want you to enjoy traveling as much as we do.

The Michelin Green Guide Team --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Pubns; 6 edition (January 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906261296
• ISBN-13: 978-1906261290
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #18 in Books > Travel > Europe > France > Provence

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Michelin created its first travel guide over 100 years ago to promote road travel and inspire driving confidence. Today, Michelin Travel & Lifestyle offers travelers an extensive range of travel guides, maps and online travel resources. These products deliver the same Michelin promise of quality and consistency consumers expect from one of the world's most trusted brands.

Publisher of travel guides, maps and atlases, Michelin Travel & Lifestyle offers a complete travel portfolio. Where to go, how to get there, where to eat & stay, and what to see & do ... all in one collection with extensive international & domestic coverage, especially for Europe. Our series includes Michelin (Red) Guides, Green Guides, Must Sees and Michelin maps and atlases.

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72 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars some like it plain, March 26, 2001

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marzipan "panchild" (Greenwich, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Provence, 4e (THE GREEN GUIDE) (Paperback)

Having just returned form a brief sojourn outside of Avignon(one of numerous visits over the years to the South of France) I found the Green Guide as indispensable as ever.

These oddly shaped, distinctive volumes dispel whatever remains of Peter Mayle's cute and condescending presentation of the region. Here instead is an ancient and noble land of sunlight and wind, which has created strangely shaped stones and mountains surrounding ancient olive groves,endless vineyards, wide rivers, and more Roman remains than can be found in Rome. The magical Middle Ages are here, too, as well as the quintessential visions of Cezanne, the native son, and Van Gogh, the wandering Dutchman. As your eyes do the looking, this highly useful green book will filll you in with all the information you will need on plants, stones (manbuilt and otherwise) weather,rivers, geology, and above all history.

What you see around you is explicated with an appropriate Gallic resserve, accuracy and precision, so that you can meditate on the land without any editorial interference. The format of the Green Guides is unique, reflecting their self-confidence that, like Popeye, and all unique creations, they are what they are.

And the small maps included in the descriptions of many of the most important sites are, as befitting a maker of tires and maps, perfect. If you love France, you will love this book and all the others defining that land for travelers from near and far.

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LIVE IN FRANC E- GREEN GUIDES ALWAYS RELIABLE, May 19, 2005

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SuperSchtroumpf (Lyon, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Provence, 4e (THE GREEN GUIDE) (Paperback)

I have lived in France for over two years, and have traveled to over 50 places all over the country.

I have chosen the Provence Green Guide to review because it's my favorite region; though all of the guides are similar. I might also mention that I have not actually seen the English version of the Green Guide - I only use the French ones.

That being said, I have tried and looked at MANY guides of France. The Green Guide (or Guide Vert) is the best for FRANCE. For other countries this is not the case.

The maps are useful; the rating system is very, very useful (and pretty close in my opinion); and the sites they recommend are very good. There is also a recommended walking path for each city map - a sort of top place to walk around if you are rushed, during a train layover for example. The many photos of sites, buildings, and cities is nice; they are often a critical deciding factor in my travel choices. Though more often than not the photos dont do justice to the quality of the fantastic places in France.

There are a few things of course i don't like (in terms of selections of sites et al) but nothing is perfect.

Since the Green Guide is from a French company (Michelin) obviously they can get a lot of good information and insight into the guides. Best of all, they have a regional focus. Since I live in France, my need for a national book is minimal; I only go to more or less one region at a time over a long weekend or week.

The Green Guides let me take my time, give me travel ideas that a France-wide guide would not give, and is pretty reliable.

On a separate note, i do not use any of the times for the sites; in France, opening times are unreliable. You are best off using the net or just taking your chances.

In the end, whatever your guide, France is a fantastic country for tourism and it's also wonderful to live in.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not What They Used to Be, October 30, 2010

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kclark - See all my reviews

This review is from: Michelin Green Guide Provence, 7e (Green Guide/Michelin) (Paperback)

Though still filled with good information, if this book is any indication the Green Guides have been "dumbed down" and reorganized to the point of near un-usability. The older Green Guides were always my go-to guides for planning the itinerary of a trip. Sure I had to look elsewhere for hotels & restaurants, but I could always find readable maps and a well organized guide to the places I wanted to visit. This book is organized into what look like randomly created "zones" which make it nearly impossible to plan a coherent route or to quickly find a particular town or sight - instead of simply looking places up alphabetically, now you have to know which zone it's in and then try to find it, or to use the (not very good) index to find places. It remains to be seen whether this book will be useful once I'm on the ground in Provence, but I've given up trying to use it for planning. Thanks be to online used bookstores - I just ordered a used copy of the 1991 edition for $1 from Abebooks.