On the Road Around Northern Italy

by Christopher Catling

Book Overview

Includes 80+ detailed maps, sightseeing information, hotel and restaurant recommendations, and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844299944
• ISBN13: 9780844299945
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Best book I have found for driving around Northern Italy

In planning a 16 day driving tour of Northern Italy, I found this book to be enormously useful. I have driven around Portugal, Norway, Switzerland, etc. but had never been to Italy. Maps in the front show specific stretches of road and areas of particular interest, and give the page number of the chapter that describes each route. The introduction to each chapter gives a succinct overview of the route that gives one a good sense of what to expect, and then describes the route in greater detail--direct route vs. scenic route, sights and towns along the route, accommodations and food, sightseeing, etc. For my purposes, I was especially pleased with the descriptions of the scenery and with the "side tracks" feature, which describes worthwhile sidetrips. I was able to note the routes that I preferred and plot out a practical itinerary. Then I turned to other books (Rick Steves and the Rough Guide to Italy) to get more detail about some of the places we were going to visit.In summary, I think this is a great book for planning driving tours of Italy--vastly better than any other I have found, including Frommer's "Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours".