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Blue Guide Tuscany by: Alta Macadam List Price: CDN$ 35.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 23.73 You Save: CDN$12.22 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9780393323450 ISBN: 0393323455 Label: WW Norton Manufacturer: WW Norton Number Of Pages: 575 Publication Date: May 30, 2002 Publisher: WW Norton Release Date: May 30, 2002 Studio: WW Norton Sales Rank: 278348 Related Items: Related Items:  see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - If You Really Want to See Tuscany...If you really want to see Tuscany, this it: this book will take you to places you wouldn't find any other way, from charming villages that are way off the beaten track, down colorful streets and staircases to hidden piazzi that you would have walked right past, into courtyards, and out to ancient country churches with masterpieces on the altar. The Blue Guide to Tuscany is 510 pages long, plus two indexes: the author, Alta Macadam, has apparently combed every city, town and hamlet in Tuscany, traveled every road and lane, wangled her way into every locked church and described its treasures, and surveyed every provincial museum. She includes practically everything of any interest at all in the entire province of Tuscany, including the ... Read More: Rating: - Great guidebook for exploring TuscanyI just returned from a trip to Italy which included 4 days in Umbria and 8 days in Tuscany. I found the Blue Guides for both regions outstanding. Not surprisingly, both are quite worn (the best sign of a useful guidebook). What makes this guidebook stand out is the incredible breadth of coverage of all tourist sites in Tuscany, making it quite thick, but not particularly heavy. (The only guide that I have seen that even comes close in terms of coverage is the Michelin Green Guide for Tuscany.) Each chapter represents a tour which covers either a town and its vicinity or a driving circuit. Within each tour, every conceivable tourist destination is identified, including small towns, churches, squares, public buildings, ... Read More: Rating: - The best series of books available for art lovers.The Blue Guide series focuses on art. If you are looking for hotels, shopping, restaurants, or for entertaining reading, rely on something else. If you're looking for a serious guide to history, art, and architecture, both the well-known and the quietly tucked away, a list of hours and days open for musuems, holidays (often to be avoided!), as well as addresses of libraries and research insitutions, the Blue Guides are for you. They cover almost every artwork in the various regions, and do so accurately. The books guide the reader systematically through churches and museums and include accurate floor plans. Towns are grouped into touring areas, as are neighborhoods in the large cities. Town maps, even for little places, are plentiful ... Read More: |
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