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The best of Venice in your pocket. From the Grand Canal to Doge's Palace - the guide covers up to 200 sights and recommendations and slips easily into your pocket or bag. Perfect for on-the-go navigation, discover Venice's best restaurants, bars and shops, opening times and transport information. Use the guide to decide your itinerary then plot your route using the fold-out map. Everything you need to make the most of your city break or stopover.

The Fourth Edition of the Rome Guide has been exhaustively revised and updated by resident writers. It provides accurate, straightforward insight into the city, including a complete critical round-up of the sights -- ancient and modern -- a history of the city, reviews of the finest in Roman restaurants, shops, nightlife, and festivals, and information on country escapes to Ostia Antica, the Castelli Romani, and Lazian lakes.

A little over 100 years after Alpine pioneers George Yeld and Rev. W. A. B. Coolidge compiled their celebrated guide "The Mountains of Cogne", this detailed book retraces some of their itineraries. It opens up a wonderful world of rugged mountains and desolate valleys that are densely populated with an extraordinary variety of wildlife. First and foremost of these is the magnificent ibex, saved from extinction strangely enough by the establishment of a Royal Game Reserve last century. The Gran P...

Insight Guides Pocket PugliaTravel made easy. Ask local experts.The definitive pocket-sized travel guide, now with free eBook and handy pull-out map.Compact, concise and packed full of essential information about where to go and what to do, this is an ideal on-the-move guide for exploring Puglia. From top tourist attractions like the Tremiti islands, the Gargano peninsula and Otranto, to cultural gems, including Alberobello - the centre of Puglia's famous trulli, the quaint, conical-shaped house...

Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Rome. Explore ancient ruins and view Renaissance masterpieces in this truly modern Eternal City. Inside Rick Steves Rome you'll find:* Fully updated, comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Rome* Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites* Top sights and hidden gems, from the Colosseum and the Sist...

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories contained within its delicate wooden body, she sets out for Cremona, birthplace of the Italian violin. T...

Written in an entertaining style, Living and Working in Italy is designed to provide newcomers with the practical information necessary for a relatively trouble-free life. It contents include finding a job, permits & visas, health, accommodation, finance, insurance, education, shopping, post office and telephone services, public transport, motoring, TV and radio, leisure, sports and much, much more. It is packed with essential information and insider tips to help minimize culture shock and reduc...

Take the trouble out of travel with the AA's easiest to use travel guides...ever. This new series covers 12 popular destinations, for independent travellers wishing to select the best for their holiday. Helping you make the right choice, the guides contain special 'locator' maps for sights, shops and restaurants, hundreds of colour photographs throughout and information that you really need. A practical thorough guide packed with expert information; Hundreds of colour photographs, floor plans, d...

What is it like for a foreigner to live and work in a village in Northern Italy, and become part of the community? How tough is it to leave your home country and settle in a new one? What do you have to do to be accepted by the people who live in a village by Lake Como, which has existed for over five hundred years? Award-winning artist and stage designer Paul Wright and his partner Nicola found out the hard way, struggling through nightmarish and obstructive Italian bureaucracy, but relishing t...

After four centuries of almost complete neglect, Piero della Francesca is now one of the best known and best loved of all Renaissance painters - to such an extent that the route from one work to another has become the tourists' "Piero della Francesca Trail". Sir John Pope-Hennessy takes a fresh look at the facts of Piero's career and the significance of his paintings. A clear chronology establishes the probable sequence of his activities in Arezzo, Borgo San Sepolcro, Monterchi and Urbino. In as...

Walk the streets of Rome, and you'll experience thousands of years of history come alive. But as you marvel at the beauty of the Sistine Chapel and the majesty of the Colosseum, you will also pass elegantly chic shops and restaurants serving the best spaghetti carbonara you've ever tasted. The present and the past mingle easily in Rome--and in this amazing book! Greetings from Rome details the history, architecture, people, and culture of this awe-inspiring city. With full-color images of sites...