|
|
|
|
Home > Blue Guide Tuscany (Fifth Edition) (Blue Guides)
|
|
Blue Guide Tuscany (Fifth Edition) (Blue Guides)
|
|
By Alta Macadam
|
 (2 Reviews)
|
|
List Price: $24.95
|
|
Our Price: $18.96 Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25.00. Details
|
|
You Save: $5.99 (24%)
|
|
From our affiliated sellers:
|
|
|
|
|
Availability:
|
Usually ships in 24 hours
|
|
Publisher:
|
Blue Guides Ltd of London
|
|
Edition:
|
Fifth Edition
|
|
Published:
|
December 31, 1969 |
|
Binding:
|
Paperback
|
|
Pages:
|
400
|
|
|
|
| |
| Product Description: |
|
| |
|
With its capital city of Florence and a host of gorgeous medieval cities set in rolling hills, Tuscany is considered by many to be the cultural heart of Italy. In classic Blue Guide style, this new edition covers Florence and other major cities?among them Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Cortona, and Arezzo. Ideal for the Florence-based visitor making day trips to the surroundings or a tour of the whole of Tuscany. Full color with maps, photographs, architectural details, and floor plans
|
|
|
| |
Customer Reviews:
Add Your Own Review |
 The best guide in English for the thinking traveler, October 3, 2011
By Goldman
|
|
... and for the educated traveler. The history, the art, and the architecture are described in no comprehensive guidebook in English any better.
This is NOT the guide for people who want gaudy photos, who want sun and fun, who want to know where they can exercise, and wish to know where Whitney Houston ate. This is the guide for the serious and motivated traveler who wishes to following in the footsteps of Ruskin, Goethe, Bernard Berenson, and Henry James -- those who want to see not just Michelangelo and Botticelli, but also Giotto, Cimabue, Donatello, Simone Martini, Duccio, Gherlandio, Filippo Lippi and his son, and the great pulpits of Pisano. Not that the reader is offered literary essays, mind you; just thorough descriptions of sights and sites. The opening times of museums are clearly given; of churches also, when available. The pragmatic information -- how to get there, how to get around -- is good. The information on where to stay and where to eat -- is reasonably good, but not the emphasis of this guide. This is the guide for people who, when at the sublime baptistry in Florence, enraptured by the ceiling mosaic, could care less that it's lunch time. In short, not for The Last Man.
Those going just to Florence will want to purchase the Blue Guide for that city.
2 of 2 people found the above review helpful.
Was this review helpful to you?
|
|
|
|
 Big Disappointment, June 7, 2011
By abuyer
|
|
Found this to be a waste of money. Might be useful to someone whose only interest is art. Didn't even bother to bring it on my trip.
Was this review helpful to you?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Home
View Cart
Bookmark This Page
Contact Us
