Italy

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet Publications, 2012 - Travel - 957 pages

Lonely Planet's #1 selling European country guide!
Visitors to Italy are bombarded by sights, scenes and flavors – palaces and museums overflowing with art, Renaissance gardens, gourmet food markets. Come enjoy the vita bella (beautiful life).

This full-color guide with 3D illustrations of major highlights and insightful features on seasonal and regional food and outdoor activities is essential for those wanting to see the best Italy has to offer!

• 15 authors, 13 volcanoes, 7600km of coastline and hundreds of Renaissance masterpieces
• Inspirational photos, pull-out city map, 3D plans of iconic sights, comprehensive planning tools, special Eat & Drink Like a Local feature and in-depth background

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Review: Italy Travel Guide (Lonely Planet)

User Review  - Meg Allison - Goodreads

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Review: Italy Travel Guide (Lonely Planet)

User Review  - Jason Golomb - Goodreads

If the city-focused travel guide books are considered novels, one should view Lonely Planet's "Italy" book as a collection of short stories. Over 900 pages of short stories. The book, like all of the ...

About the author

Paula has spent the last five years living in and writing her way around the fringes of the Mediterranean, from a cultural history of Libya to Lonely Planet projects in Italy, Morocco and Spain. This has given her a deep appreciation of the composite oriental and occidental culture that makes southern Italy and Sicily endlessly fascinating, while repeated visits over the years have allowed her to savour the changing colours and contexts of Mediterranean life. When not climbing mountains and volcanoes to work off the worst excesses of Italian restaurants, Paula lives in London and contributes travel articles to the Telegraph, Independent, Daily Express and Wanderlust Travel Magazine.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Italy; Country Guide Series; LONELY PLANET ITALY; Lonely Planet
• Author: Lonely Planet
• Contributor: Paula Hardy
• Edition: 10, illustrated
• Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications, 2012
• ISBN: 1741798515, 9781741798517
• Length: 957 pages
• Subjects: Travel / Europe / Italy; Travel / Reference