Florence & Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Anna Streiffert
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 387946
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
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Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0789494280
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.550493
UPC: 635517094282
EAN: 9780789494283
ASIN: 0789494280
Publication Date: January 31, 2003
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Book Description
Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Guides series each year. In 2003, to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK is re-launching the entire series, fully updated, and with a brand-new look.
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 Florence and Tuscany April 24, 2008
We used this guide and found it to be excellent. We had several guides but this was the most complete and easy to use.
 Only wish I'd had more time March 23, 2008
Yeah, doesn't everyone? There is so much in this book outside of Florence and I really wanted to make the trek into the Tuscan hills around the city, especially to Pisa and Siena. But alas, I was trapped in Florence...and what a prison it was! Everyone should find themselves thus abused at some point in their life, I believe.
This DK guide made the punishment a lot easier to endure, saving me time and headache by thoroughly breaking down specific areas of the city in detailed maps. From Palazzo and Ponte Vecchio, to the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (il Duomo), and on to Brancacci Chapel and Santa Croce and everything in between. This guide gave me detailed information on each of the sites and helped enrich the experience. The exploded diagrams cover the finer points, giving the reader recognizable visual elements to look for along the way. This is so much better than words alone.
Overall, I highly recommend this book...and the city itself. Florence is a place like no other!
Nice guidebook February 16, 2008
We enjoyed this guidebook on our recent trip to Florence. It was comprehensive, easy to use, and fun to read. This publisher also offers a companion map and mini-guide book to use on the go.
 Too much Tuscany? February 11, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
The travel sections of most bookstores, particularly the larger ones, are awash in books about Italy, and in particular, the region of Tuscany. This is clearly too much of a good thing; take 10 of these books----and there must be closer to 20 of them----and you will find much duplication. How is a traveler, particularly the first-time traveler to central Italy, to know which guides are helpful and which merely rehash information that has been available for many years? One of the problems is that many of the guides issue a new edition each year in an apparent attempt to render last year's guide obsolete. Nonsense! I have some travel guides that are 15 years old and are still valuable. Keep in mind that the Etruscans were in Tuscany well over 2,000 years ago; their monuments and culture is not going to change much between 2007 and 2008.
In short, this book serves a purpose but so do many others with similar titles.
Great book for self-guided travelers December 14, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband and I are free spirit travelers that like to keep the planning somewhat spontaneous, yet still have enough planning to get the most from the experience. We enjoyed this book for providing enough history and background to provide context for the experiene. Plus this book (along with the help of a great GPS system) was great for mapping and planning the day. I actually used a friend's books for our trip and thought they were so great that I bought a copy for myself as a keepsake for when we returned.
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