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Summary: Easy to use, and helpful!!
Review: My sister and I took 3 DK eyewitness travel guides on our trip through Europe. Paris was very helpful with the confusing streets. Germany was helpful with the little areas we went to that other travel books did not even mention. But the Italy book was the best. Not only was the venice, and tuscany sections helpful, but in Rome this book got us where we needed, even when lost on the mopeds. It was also great because you would run into some out of the way place, and look it up in the book and it would be there. It was also very helpful, because when we changed our itinerary in the middle of our stay in Italy, we were able to use the book to find new places to stay, and things to do while there. These books are the BEST travel books. The pictures and maps are very helpful, and it gives you a little bit of historical stories to go with everything. A must take when visititing anyplace new, heck I plan on taking them back with me when I go again next year!!
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Summary: Great travel companion!
Review: I can't say enough good things about this travel guide. I think I may have read it cover to cover. It has wonderful pictures to identify what you're looking at or looking for. The diagrams of the different museums and tourist sites were better then what some of places handed out or sold (Sistine Chapel was excellent). The detail and history are wonderful. I didn't really use it for restaurant or hotel recommendations. The front and back covers have flaps so that you can bookmark your spot in the guide. It also color codes the different regions in Italy so that you can easily flip to the proper section. The pages on Italian customs and history were also helpful in order to understand how to get around, eat, the different types of police, etc. The only place for improvement would be an update to put prices in Euros instead of Lira.
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Summary: Review For Students!!!
Review: As a student traveling to Italy, this book is hands down the only thing next to your money belt you need to bring out with you each day! [Forget] the hotel guide, it's planned out for you anyway. Don't know what a building looks like that you are going to today? Look it up. Don't know the building your looking at? Look it up. You're in Italy to enjoy it, and take it all in. Don't rush it, remember the small things, like what it smells like in St. Peters. You'll have more time to cherish your trip with this book. Better Clif Notes than you could ever take, with pictures!
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Summary: The Best Travel Companion!
Review: Eyewitness Travel Guides are encyclopedias for the country, regions and cities. Anything AND everything you must know about the area is covered with gorgeous pictures and historical background on churches, towns, people and food in Italy. I NEVER travel without a DK Eyewitness Guide. Please note that the hotel and restaurant information in the back has been little useful because nowadays, the internet,
word-of-mouth and frankly, travel guru Rick Steves' are more reliable in the hotel area. And as far as the restaurants are concerned, that's not something you can plan ahead of time. Recommendations upon arrival in Italy are best. The natives know where to enjoy olive oil & four cheese pizza near Santa Maria Maggiore or lasagna you'd die for at a cafe in Piazza Navona. Don't leave home without Eyewitness. Ciao!
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Summary: Good introduction but can be better
Review: I traveled to Italy from Jan 3 to Jan 13 2002.
This book does bring me a lot of information about the history of Italy and the famous article in each museum.
With this book, I enjoy my travel a lot.
To travel alone, the book gives me less information.
I have no idea about how to take how to buy the metro ticket in Milan and also the require regulation about it.
Also the information about buying the train ticket is a bit old.
If you wish to travel with this book.
You can enjoy your culture journey but must pay more attention about how to use public transportation.
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Summary: Eyewitness Travel Guide to Italy (revised)
Review: Eyewitness guide books are ideal for the traveller who just want's an overview and wants to explore the rest himself. Everythin is in full color and beautifully layed out to make it easy to use while on the road. We used these guides all thru Italy.
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Summary: One of the best travel books I've ever seen
Review: This book gives a comprehensive look at Italia, covering every region, and spot lighting a few of the most popular cities. It even includes a Survival Guide with key phrases and explanations on how to travel. Also included are tips on where to eat, sleep, and party.
From the detailed artists drawings of the cathedrals of Florence and Rome, to the suggested sites, with inclusive street by street maps, this book will help you to see Italy in all its glory.
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Summary: Best guide on the market
Review: I used this guide on my recent trip to Italy. Several people in the tour group wanted to use it also (sometimes I had trouble getting it back). I have researched other books on the market...this one is the best. It also saved me time getting through the museums by pointing out locations of the most significant artworks. This is an important feature when you have limited time and have lost a good portion of that time standing in line to enter the museums.
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Summary: The perfect trip planner
Review: This beautiful and graphic guide has been invaluable to me in planning my upcoming trip. The pictures are infinitely more useful than so many words in other guides in arranging my itinerary. Fodor's, Frommer's and Steves may do a more complete job of recommending hotels and restaurants. However, this book excels in presenting a realistic view of what is really worth seeing, and helping you plan your days. And unlike most other guides, this one is really fun to read. The pictorial descriptions of regional cuisine are absolutely mouth-watering! It will surely not be the last Eyewitness Guide I buy.
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Summary: Good for Rome; not very good for Amalfi Coast.
Review: I thought the book was excellent until I went to the Amalfi Coast. All the info. that I was expecting was not there. I was disappointed and would recommend that future editions become as in depth as the more popular cities/towns in Italy.
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