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Whether you’re an art buff, culture vulture, foodie or intrepid explorer of the great outdoors, this fully updated guidebook provides all the information you need for multiple trips around Tuscany and Umbria across 500+ informative, inspiring pages.
The extensive introduction includes an excellent section on food and drink, with a great wine guide that almost serves as a fast track to becoming a sommelier! The Florence and Pisa chapters are wonderful, with detailed information covering all the unmissable museums and galleries along with recommendations that will enrich your trips by guiding you to eat and shop like a local. This contains all the maps you’ll need too, from detailed plans of must-see churches and gardens, to comprehensible overviews of wider areas around this stunning part of Italy, while hikers and walkers will love the suggested routes for off-the-beaten track treks.
Further Fiction Recommendations;
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria Synopsis
Synonymous with practical travel tips, quality writing, and a trustworthy “tell it like it is” ethos, Rough Guides have been inspiring travellers on all budgets for 35 years. This fully updated edition of The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria will inform, inspire and help you make the most of your trip.
Written by expert authors with real flair, this is both indispensably practical and thoroughly entertaining. It provides unparalleled area-by-area information for Florence and environs, Lucca and northern Tuscany, Pisa, the central coast and Elba, The Maremma, Siena, the Sienese hill-towns, Southern Tuscany, Arezzo Province, Perugia and northern Umbria, Assisi and the Vale of Spoleto, Spoleto and the Valnerina, Orvieto and southern Umbria, with exhaustively researched accommodation, eating, shopping and leisure recommendations for each. The meticulous mapping is a market leader in terms of quality and user-friendliness—always full colour, with clear numbered and colour-coded keys—and all Rough Guides feature full-colour photography throughout. The comprehensive practical content is set within fascinating cultural contexts, and delivered with Rough Guides’ hallmark honesty, flair and spirit of independence.
About Rough Guides – MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME OF EARTH
Rough Guides is a leading travel publisher known for its “tell it like it is” attitude, accurate, up-to-date content and authoritative contemporary writing. Rough Guides publishes books covering more than 120 destinations around the globe, produces an ever-growing series of eBooks and a range of reference titles, and has an award-winning website. As of November 2017, Rough Guides became part of APA Publications, publisher of Insight Guides and Berlitz.
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9780241306444 |
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16th April 2018 |
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Rough Guides an imprint of APA Publications |
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