Italy: Three Cities - Rome, Florence, Venice (Cadogan City Guides)

by Dana Facaros (Author), Michael Pauls (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $6.72

  Amazingly well up-dated and researched. -- The Times (London) Cadogan's specialty is uncovering delightful secrets in some of the earth's most traveled spots . -- The Independent Entertaining companions with sharp insights ... The series has received plaudits worldwide for intelligence, orginality and a slightly irreverent sense of fun. -- Daily Telegraph (London) Cadogan Guides have a reputation as the outstanding series for the independent traveler who doesn't want to follow the crowd . -- Daily Telegraph (London) ... evocatively charming and chatty as they are informed . -- New York Daily News Understated humorous writing . -- New York Daily

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $12.60

  A sublime introduction to the country, or a perfect multi-centre trip for travellers with limited time - stately Rome, with its Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel - dreamy Venice, and the eternal romance of a gondola ride along its canals - Florence, bursting with more paintings, sculptures and monuments than anywhere in Italy 'Italy dangles from the centre of western Europe like a Christmas stocking, stuffed to the brim with marvels, some as grand as Brunelleschi's dome over Florence cathedral, some as weird and unexpected as the pagan tombs buried underneath St Peter's in Rome, or Galileo's erect middle finger, carefully, significantly preserved in a reliquary in Florence's science museum'