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Italy (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
by: Damien Simonis, et al

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9781741043112
ISBN: 1741043115
Label: Lonely Planet Publications
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 926
Publication Date: February 01, 2008
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Studio: Lonely Planet Publications
Sales Rank: 493

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Good - but not exceptional
This is a good guide book, as all the guide books in the series, but I did expect a bit more from it. I travelled around Italy together with my husband the summer of 2005, and we used this guide book a lot. But it is a guide book, nothing more. There are quite a bit of things that have changed since the book was last edited, but this is expected. We are planning to send the findings we did to the editor, so that it can be added or changed in the next edition, perhaps.
We felt that the book focused too much on churches, castles etc, and a lot of really interesting things were missed - like the local food markets, which we love to visit. There wasn't much of "different" or "special" recommendations, it was just focusing on the "What to see ... Read More:

Rating:

- Dissapointing from Lonely Planet
I have bought Lonely Planet books many times before and found them really good, but this book was not very helpful. There is two much information on the cities and hardly anything about the beach areas or areas out of the cities. When I am on holiday I would rather have fun than read 35 pages about monks in the 13th century.

Rating:

- FAB!!!
I really enjoyed this book and found it very helpfull and with great tips and info to my TRIP to Italy/

Rating:

- Indispensable...
If you're heading off on a tour of Italy, I thoroughly recommend purchasing this book.The book proved invaluable to me, offering useful accomodation information as well as detailed maps of the places I visited.

My journey consisted of a tour of Italy's more famous cities- from Pisa to Florence, on to Rome and Napoli, down to Pompeii and Sorrento, eventually heading north to Venice. For this journey, the book was superb, although I have heared criticisms of the book if you are considering heading further off the beaten track.

All in all, I found this book indispensable while I was in Italy, and thoroughly recommend it to anyone embarking on a city tour of Italy.

Rating:

- Good General Overview
I found this book to be quite insightful especially when describing the history of a particular place or region. Italy is a varied a vast country which is hard to some up in one book...but this certainly makes a good attempt.

I found it very useful when visiting cities and sourcing food and accommodation. The recommendations were excellent!

V.good with details pertaining to travel ie. trains, buses, planes etc.

Just lacking a little when getting into the ares which are off the beaten track but will give a very good indication of what is on offer when visiting Italy.

I would reccommend to tuck this into your backpack.

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