The Rough Guide Venice Map (Rough Guide City Maps) [Folded Map] [Map]

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Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2002

Designed to be tough and immensely practical the Rough Guide Maps provide travel information, and the city's sights, monuments and attractions. The maps show every shop, restaurant, bar and hotel in the Rough Guide travel guide to the city together with their opening times and, in many cases, phone numbers. Each map covers the main area of the city on one side and an enlarged city centre map on the reverse.

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Rough Guides maps are cut from the same cloth as the Rough Guides themselves. Relevant, accurate, and easy-to-read, these rip-proof, waterproof maps are practically indestructible. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Map: 1 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides; Map edition (June 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843530007
• ISBN-13: 978-1843530008
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 4.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,619,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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156 of 157 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Venice Map, January 5, 2005

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Stephen Swartz (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide Venice Map (Rough Guide City Maps) (Map)

I'm just back from three weeks in Venice. Because I'm obsessive, I ended up taking along four maps: Street Smart, Lonely Planet, National Geographic, and the Rough Guide map. I thought I'd share my experiences.

Many people who go to Venice stick to the main walkways between the most important tourist spots: the Accademia, the Rialto Bridge, and San Marco square. I am not that sort of person. I walked all over the city: along the waterfronts of Dorsoduro and Cannaregio, through the parks of Castello and Sant'Elena, and to all the churches I could find. I also found that taking non-standard routes between well-known places avoided the street merchants and pedestrian crush. You can see what I was putting my maps through.

The Rough Guide map was the most useful map I took to Venice. It's printed on waterproof plastic, which is useful in the drizzle. I'm rough on things: it never tore. It was easy enough to fold the map in such a way that it was convenient to carry and still showed the area I was walking through. Most importantly, time and again when using one of the other maps I'd find myself in some twistly little spot where the map and reality were not in sync: a missing bridge, roads not shaped this way, etc. Each time, I'd turn to the Rough Guide and find that it was correct where the others weren't.

The Rough Guide map is larger than the other maps, which makes it harder to use if you want a "big-picture" view of the city while walking. On the other hand, the Rough Guide map is larger than the other maps, which means you can read it without a spotlight and a magnifying glass ;). Its size is part of its utility: because it's easy enough to fold, its size was no problem.

If you are going to be hunting down specific addresses or leaving the beaten path, I believe the Rough Guide is a must-have. If you can afford two maps, take the National Geographic map for strategy and the Rough Guide for tactics, and you'll be delighted.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Rough Guide maps and the Venice map is no exception, May 12, 2006

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Ian Kaplan (Livermore, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rough Guide Venice Map (Rough Guide City Maps) (Map)

I spent six days in Venice in April of 2006. After using the
excellent Rough Guide map of Barcelona, I purchase Rough Guide
maps when ever they are published for my destination. What I love
about these maps is that they are complete, accurate and very
tough. You can carry them around in your pocket, bend them and
sweat on them and they still remain as usable as ever.

You cannot get lost in Venice in the sense that you don't know
how to get back to somewhere familiar because there is always
a waterbus stop nearby that you can take to some place you know.
But the twisty pedestrian streets can be very confusing, ending
in canals, so it can be difficult to get from place to place
or to find a place you want to go to. For this you want the
Rough Guide map. I walked all over Venice, including some off
the beaten track areas where I saw very few tourists.

In summary: for Venice my advice is get a wasterbus pass for the
days you are in Venice and get the Rough Guide map. Oh, and
unless you like crowds and higher costs, don't stay in San Marco.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Map, August 14, 2007

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David M. Bott (Sacramento, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waterproof Venice Map by Rough Guide Maps (Rough Guide Country/Region Map) (Map)

I went to Venice for the first time in May 2007 and found this map indispensable. It was better than many other maps I had researched and better than maps that I saw for sale in Venice! Would definitely recommend to anyone going to Venice, particularly if it is your first visit to this beautiful yet very easy to get lost in city.