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

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

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.31

  Whether you're planning a short break or a longer stay, Cadogan's guide to Italy's dazzling cities will add spice to your visit. The famous, the infamous, the classic and the quirky sights are covered in entertaining detail, ensuring that you discover each city's individual version of la dolce vita, the delight and art Italians bring to the everyday things in life.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $13.36

  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'