Customer Reviews

Michelin Green Guide: Italy (Michelin Green Tourist Guides (English))

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Michelin's Green Guides are essential if traveling in Europe. The Italy Green Guide is colorful, detailed, and very informative. There are numerous maps that are easy to follow and the practical information at the back of the book is extremely helpful. Michelin's 3-star rating system is unmatched and makes it easy to prioritize your trip. I particularly enjoyed the background and historical info. for Milano and Firenze. I highly recommend it.

One of the reasons we love Italy so much is that the land is so intimately settled: tiny complex towns hug the terrain, cities are assembled of ten thousand tiny jigsaw pieces, and roads meander according to long-forgotten whims. The only perfect map is coterminous with the land, but whereas a useful map of the American midwest can be very small indeed, a useful map of gem-like Italy really needs to be very, very big. Many of the features that make Italy so appealing are too small to show up on most maps. Unfortuantely for me, I depended on this map to navigate the country lanes of Tuscany last week, and it failed totally. It is far too small. It's even too small for finding Autostrada exits with any certainty. It's almost useless, actually, except for the longest trips between big cities. I highly recommend the Michelin spiral-bound book map for navigating in Italy. Its format is more convenient for car travel, it is just as accurate and legible, and it has the level of detail you'll need to avoid spending your whole trip lost and frustrated. I also recommend supplemental detailed city maps. Better yet, don't drive in Italy at all. It's insane. Especially plan to walk or take cabs in towns and cities. Cazzo!

Nicely laid out map, however I did not realize it would be in Italian, so that made it a little trickier to read. I also was hoping for detailed maps of the cities, but the back was blank.

Basically verey good but I would have preferred mor detail of Sicily and Aolean islands

This map, while being very colorful, left off a major road to Chianti, which got us totally lost. Also, the paper began to separate in the folds after just a few openings.
Look elsewhere.

This map is good as an overview or if you're driving on the major roads. If you need specific locations or secondary routes, look for one with more detail. Its light weight and small size made it easy to tote with us and did help when we decided to visit some locations not originally on our itinerary. Happy traveling.

The map is great and incredibly detailed. Instead of printing the whole county on one side, it might have been better to divide it into North and South, one on each side, just for ease of viewing.

We used this map without incident to travel widely in the north. While it is accurate and contains lots of useful information, a larger type face would have made it easier to use on the fly.

Disappointing as it was advertised as an English version and, in fact, it was in Italian. The map was simply not as advertised. Otherwise, a quality map.