Product Description
The best guide to Italy, updated everyyear
- The great sights -- the historic cities and Tuscan and Umbrian hill towns, plus the lakes, coasts, and islands
- Walking tours to piazzas and palaces, churches and museums
- Wine roads, mountain drives, canal cruises, southern sojourns
- Seaside hiking, country biking, golf, skiing, boating
- Where to buy leather goods, antiques, jewelry, ceramics
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
- Rooms with a view -- Renaissance villas, pensions and farm stays, stylish city finds, resorts and monastery retreats
- Chic city restaurants, rustic osterie, family-run trattorie, seaside fish eateries, piazza cafés, pizzerias, and gelaterie
Fresh, thorough, practical -- off and on the beaten path
- Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
- All reviews based on visits by savvy writer-residents
65 map pages, 43 vacation itineraries, 33 city tours
- Smart Travel Tips
- Fodor's Choice
- What's Where
- Pleasures & Pastimes
- New & Noteworthy
- Festivals
- Background essays
- Italian Vocabulary
From the Publisher
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- Exploring Italy (3rd Edition): An information-rich cultural guide in full color; the perfect companion to the Gold Guide.
- Exploring Rome (3rd Edition): An information-rich cultural guide in full color; the perfect companion to a Gold Guide.
- Exploring Venice (2nd Edition): An information-rich cultural guide in full color; the perfect companion to a Gold Guide.
- Citypack Florence (1st Edition): A pocket-size, full-color guidebook and a full-size map, all in one sturdy, plastic sleeve.
- Citypack Rome (2nd Edition): A pocket-size, full-color guidebook and a full-size map, all in one sturdy, plastiv sleeve.
- Citypack Venice (1st Edition): A pocket-size, full-color guidebook and a full-size map, all in one sturdy, plastic sleeve.
- Pocket Rome (3rd Edition): Compact guide to the best of the city -- perfect for short visits.
- Rivages: Hotels and Country Inns of Character and Charm in Italy (3rd Edition): Insider guides to Europe's unique places to stay -- color photos throughout.
- Languages for Travelers: Fodor's Italian for Travelers (Audio Set) (1st Edition): Information-packed, easy-to-use audiocassettes.
- Languages for Travelers: Fodor's Italian for Travelers (Phrase Book) (1st Edition): An information-packed, easy-to-use phrase book.
