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Title: Eyewitness Travel Guide to Florence and Tuscany by Christopher Catling ISBN: 1-56458-502-6 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: AWESOME!
Comment: I am so happy that I had this book in my hand during out week visit in Florence. I read this book before going and was able to get an idea of what Florence was about, but when I arrived, this book did not leave my hands! This guide divides Florence into sections. We set out agenda according to sections in the book. The street-by-street map was invaluable and we were never lost. I am the worst with directions, but I knew extactly where I was during each day. With the maps, I navigated instead of my husband! The cut aways and guides to the various museums and attractions were also invaluable. We were able to walk into any attraction and know what the star features were and not have to miss a thing. We did not have to buy the extra tour books in each museum because our Eyewitness Guide gave us all the information we need and then some. Not only was I the navigator, but I was our personal tour guide. With the book, I was able to read out loud to my husband and tell him about everything we saw in Florence. There were many other tourists with the Eyewitnes Guides in their hands and I was pleasantly surprised to see the book in so many different languages. This book was able to tell us the customs of the region. When we were surprised about having to pay for a cover charge in a restaurant, I checked the restaurant section and it explained about cover charges in restaurants. We used the train from Florence to Rome and the guide told us about stamping our ticket at the yellow boxes before boarding. This guide covered it all.
You can forget the credit cards, but DO NOT LEAVE HOME WITH THIS ONE!
Rating: 5
Summary: Most carried travel guide by tourists in Florence
Comment: My wife and I recently returned from a two week visit to Rome, Florence and Venice. We used the corresponding Eyewitness Travel Guide for each of the three cities. What I liked about all three guidebooks are its 3-D maps, good overviews of the museums and excellent descriptions of all the sites in the three cities, both major and minor ones. What was very helpful was to read a paragraph or two about a sight when we came upon it, whether deliberately or by just exploring. For the Florence book, the 3D cutaway of the Duomo is great. Also, excellently presented are the overviews of the Uffizi, the Bargello, Piazza della Signoria and Pallazzo Vecchio. The book begins with an excellent short history of the region and the Medici family. I found this description far superior to the one in the Knopf series. The book's weakness is its short and insufficient list of hotels. For hotel listings I suggest the Frommer series. Finally, an unofficial survey by observation, it seemed that more tourists were carrying the Eyewitness Travel Guides (in many different languages) than any other tour guide.
Rating: 5
Summary: Equal Best
Comment: These DK guides are fantastic - we buy them for all of our destinations and pack them along with our other favourite books - the Michelan Green Guides. The DK books present glorious potted histories along with brilliant illustrations which bring the locations to life. Equal best because the book that goes in my back pocket is always the Michelan Green Guide - they fold in half and slip into the hip pocket whereas the DK book is too thick for that.
Totally sold on these great books. Like the Michelans, they don't go out of date - history is just that.
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Title: Rome (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing ISBN: 0789494213 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Italy (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Publishing ISBN: 0789493861 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Streetwise Florence by Streetwise Maps, Michael Brown ISBN: 0935039651 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Venice & The Veneto (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by Susie Boulton, Christopher Catling, Dorling-Kindersley ISBN: 0789495740 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide to Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Top 10) by Reid Bramblett ISBN: 0789483521 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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