Cadogan City Guides
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This guide has been uniformly praised for its coverage of the inner life of Paris that so many other guides seem to miss out on. This guide caters to the first-time tourist as well as those who know the city or are living there. There are carefully planned walks, day trips out of the city, a guide to weekend Paris and children's Paris, places to stay, and the latest information for bargain hunters and night owls.
This title explores the home of pizza, seeking out the pleasures of chic Positano and the Amalfi Coast, where Mount Vesuvius towers over the fantasy garden frescoes of Pompeii. It visits the ravishing landscape of Capri and takes a trip round vibrant Naples, with its world-famous restaurants and nightlife. 'For most of us today, the biggest attraction of all in the Mezzogiorno, (Italy's 'Noonday') is obvious enough. Even in Roman times, the land around the Bay of Naples was Campania Felix - fortunate Campania, the richest and most beautiful province of Italy, its seaside villas the chosen abodes of the Roman elite. History (not to mention the earthquakes and volcanoes) has given it plenty of hard knocks in all the centuries since, but the hints and fragments of paradise are still present.'
At last, a Cadogan guide to Barcelona! Tourism figures show this is a city not to be missed. Colorful, festive and intense, the 'New York of Europe' has attracted unprecedented levels of interest and admiration since playing host to the Olympics in 1992. Site of the world's most beautiful street, Las Ramblas, the greatest concentration of medieval architecture in Europe, the fantastic creations of Gaudi, stunning modern art and the Museu Picasso, it is also famed for its for its nightlife, youth culture and sheer sense of style.