The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

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Product Description

The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto is the definitive handbook to Europe''s most beautiful city and its hinterland. The guide includes detailed accounts of all Venice''s monuments and museums, from San Marco to the far-flung islands. There is vivid background on the city''s history and culture, with the lowdown on the Biennale, Carnevale and other special events. For every area, there are comprehensive reviews of restaurants, bars and accommodation in every price range. Finally, there is detailed coverage of Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso and a host of other Veneto towns and sights.

About the Author

Written and researched by Jonathan Buckley with additional research by Charles Hebbert and Kate Hughes. Jonathan Buckley is the co-author of the Rough Guides to Tuscany and Umbria and Florence, and has published three novels: The Biography of Thomas Lang, Xerxes and Ghost MacIndoe.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Rough Guides; 6th edition (August 9, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843533022
• ISBN-13: 978-1843533023
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,605,359 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! ...Move over, Lonely Planet!, December 28, 2001

By	Renee Thorpe (Karangasem, Bali) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

Wow! Just got back from Venice, where we used this guide to find our pensione, restaurants (NO tourist ones), gelato, churches, the best tartuffi (chocolate truffles) in the world, and of course museums, attractions, and scuolas.

We never found anything to disagree with on their reviews, although they called our pensione "cheerless" despite the sunny south exposures that were a delight.

Best of all, the maps are cross-referenced to the text, so when reader looks up a restaurant review, the map location is noted and easily found (other guide books are infuriatingly lax in this simple and useful method).

Absolutely perfect!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A mixed bag... wait for the new edition?, June 13, 2004

By	David Loftesness (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

Just got back from a trip to Venice, and between us and our travelling companions we must have had 6 different books. This Rough Guide ended up being the book I carried with me when touring historical sites, as it had the most detailed descriptions and the best background information. The section at the end on Venice's history was fascinating. But the book is definitely getting dated -- many prices are still listed in Lire, and many of the hours of the various sights around town were incorrect. We also found the restaurant reviews a bit off from reality. Rick Steves' book was a much better reference for these things, particularly on restaurants which were all wonderful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really 4.5, May 4, 2002

By	John Andrew Deskins "Professional listener" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto 5 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)

Rough Guide definitely gets 5 stars for thoroughness. From cover to cover there is more information about Venice than I would have thought possible, or maybe even desirable!

Especially when it comes to information on neighborhoods, museums, scuole and the like, this is the best book of it's kind. I kept it in hand walking through the Accademia; I think they actually gave background information on every single painting in the place. The sections on the Doge's Palace and the Basilica are just staggering. Every tiny little campo, every plaque, every statue is covered with a thoroughness bordering on [tedium].

Unfortunately, this is also the Rough Guide's biggest drawback. The guide covers everything from the sublime to the mundane, and sorting through it all (and with no pictures!!?!?!) sometimes takes some effort. With a prose style more reminiscent of Henry James than Rolling Stone, I thought it seemed tedious at times.

Having said all that, the restaurant recommendations were dead-on, and they were forward-looking enough to attempt lira to Euro price estimations.

Recommended, but you may want to pick up something more entertaining for the flight over.