Cadogan Country Guides
9 total works
This title explores vibrant Avignon and tranquil St Remy-de-Provence; discovers the Roman ruins of Arles and the graceful culture of Aix-en-Provence; tries bouillabaisse in Marseille; and tours vineyards and fragrant lavender fields.It features dynamic new two-colour layout for easy navigation; new magazine style, combining stunning photography, tailored itineraries and a personal take on the country; and clear, newly-designed two-colour maps throughout for increased ease of use.The only guides with full-colour touring maps of the whole region. The title offers extensive listings of hotels and restaurants - all personally recommended for a really local flavour. It features Top Don't Miss sights for each regional chapter, plus Author Choices of personal favourite places to stay and eat.
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.'
This title presents dynamic new two-color layout for easy navigation. It features new magazine style, combining stunning photography, tailored itineraries and a personal take on the country; and, clear, newly designed two-color maps throughout for increased ease of use. This is the only guides with full-color touring maps of the whole region. This title includes extensive listings of hotels and restaurants - all personally recommended for a really local flavor. It also includes Top Don't Miss sights for each regional chapter, plus Author Choices of personal favorite places to stay and eat. The author swans around Brigitte Bardot's former haunts in St-Tropez; explores Monaco's glittering nightlife and smells the money in Monte-Carlo's glamorous casinos; takes in the fragrant plains that produce flowers for the perfumers of Grasse; visits tranquil villages perches just behind the coastal strip; lets you learn to cook with a top chef; explores flower markets and turtle sanctuaries, and takes a boat trip to the golden Iles d'Hyeres; and, follows an art trail in the colorful footsteps of Cocteau, Matisse, Dufy and Cezanne.
This title features: dynamic two-colour layout for easy navigation; brand new colour section that gives a photographic overview of the region, together with special features of the region, tailored itineraries and lists of the best things to do; full-colour touring maps of the whole region; extensive listings of hotels and restaurants - all personally recommended for a really local flavour; and, Top Don't Miss sights for each regional chapter, plus Author Choices of personal favourite places to stay and eat. It explores this green haven with unspoilt coastline, soaring mountains and lush valleys of pine and beech forest. It uncovers architectural treasures from the Visigothic, via florid Baroque to modernista master Antoni Gaudi - and visible cultural history stretching back to Paleolithic times. You can discover some of Spain's most interesting cities including Vitoria with its six-day Fiestas de la Virgen Bianca, or genteel Burgos, with its unlikely combination of frogs and Gothic art. It details over 300 restaurants, bars and cafes for sampling the tantalising local cuisine.
This book explores renowned biblical sites, from the Harran of Abraham to the Ephesus of St Paul. It examines exquisitely refined tilework in the Imperial mosques of Istanbul. It covers skis in Alpine-style winter resorts and bathes in the Mediterranean in November. It goes on a gourmet tour, sampling ingenious dishes first prepared for the Ottoman sultans. It uncovers the rich and fascinating history of this most ancient of lands.It features: a dynamic new two-colour layout for easy navigation; new magazine style, combining stunning photography, tailored itineraries and a personal take on the country; and, clear, newly designed two-colour maps throughout for increased ease of use. These are the only guides with full-colour touring maps of the whole region. It provides extensive listings of hotels and restaurants - all personally recommended for a really local flavour. It offers Top Don't Miss sights for each regional chapter, plus Author Choices of personal favourite places to stay and eat.
