Customer Reviews

Walking in Tuscany (Cicerone International Walking S.)

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A group of us (seasoned travelers) used this book as a guide. We only used it for a short time as it had very poor directions and wasted a lot of our time. I would recommend avoiding this product. It made for a frustrating time, albeit in a beautiful place.

I did both the no.29 "Sovana's Sunken Roadways and Necropolises" and no.30 "Sovana to Pitigliano the Old Way" walks and loved every minute of them. Italy is full of museums and archeological sites but this is ancient history out in the countryside! The sunken roads are fascinating gorges formed by the wheels of horse-driven vehicles that have worn ruts over the centuries in the soft rock called tufo. Sometimes these are up to 20 metres deep. We would never have discovered places so interesting and 'off the beaten track' without this book.

this is a traval book with a difference! It takes you for short walks through Tuscany or you can take on the challenge of walking from Florence to Siena. Its well researched and most of the walks can be done using public transport

Don't give this guide a second thought....it's complete trash. We are seasoned travelers and wanted to try something new in Tuscany. Place names and sign indications were mis-spelled, natural markers were not identified; it is clear that the author has not even stepped foot on the path that was described. Total waste of time.

I appreciated the depth and detail of this book...but then I do admire the Etruscan civilisation...unlike TW of Hobart who obviously has a limited horizon,does not read anything but a title before buying and whose opinion is frankly dull.
I am Australian, live in Italy 4 months of the year in the La Tuscia region north of Rome and this is one of the few books that covers this region ..the core of Etruria. A delightful area of lakes, sea and wonderful towns all off the bog standard tourist trail taken by the ilk of TW...and I hope it stays that way.

This book has poor directions and does not take you to the most interesting sites in Tuscany. A waste of money really...

A group of us (seasoned travelers) used this book as a guide. We only used it for a short time as it had very poor directions and wasted a lot of our time. I would recommend avoiding this product. It made for a frustrating time, albeit in a beautiful place.

Tuscany is famous for being the cradle of the Renaissance, its wonderful medieval villages and churches, glorious wine, fabulous food and countryside. Just why this book focuses almost exclusively on etruscan ruins - probably the least interesting thing about Tuscany to the average traveller - is bewildering. Short shrift is generally paid to otherwise interesting villages in order to concentrate on this obscure and frankly dull topic. A terrible read with pretty ordinary photos to boot - and now I read that the directions are inaccurate. A thoroughly pointless endeavour.