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The lifestyle, food, wine and tranquil rolling countryside make Southwest France an attractive destination. This guide describes its art, history and architecture in detail. Full-colour throughout with detailed maps and diagrams. Includes Blue Guides Recommended dining and accommodation suggestions.
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Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is an excellent general guide to south west France. It is comprehensive in its coverage, highly readable, with plenty of detailed anecdotes to enliven the narrative, and well illustrated with abundant maps and photographs. It also offers a continuous text which can be read as a book, in contrast to some travel guides which adopt a scrapbook approach.
It is not a guide for back-packers, however: it is too heavy for that, and like most of the regional (as opposed to the city) books in the Blue Guide series, you really need to have a car (or a bicycle) to get around on if you are going to get the best out of the account.
It is very firmly a guide for people who enjoy looking at architecture, paintings and sculpture, wandering around towns and villages, and appreciating the landscape and history of France.
It is not a guide for back-packers, however: it is too heavy for that, and like most of the regional (as opposed to the city) books in the Blue Guide series, you really need to have a car (or a bicycle) to get around on if you are going to get the best out of the account.
It is very firmly a guide for people who enjoy looking at architecture, paintings and sculpture, wandering around towns and villages, and appreciating the landscape and history of France.
Format:Paperback
A good book, very detailed with pictures and maps. However, it does not cover the Languedoc, and one of the place we are visiting, Carcassonne, so it was a bit disappointing.
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12 Mar 2006
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You can't beat a Blue Guide when it comes to accurate, useful, and detailed information, and Southwest France is no exception. 576 densely printed pages, this book thoroughly covers the Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine, including Dordogne, Lot, Landes, Tarn, Gers, Gironde, and the Pyrenees. Elegant towns, superb museums (many little known), chateaux, churches, valleys, vineyards, city maps - this is a total cultural and historical guide to the region, which encompasses a vast amount of territory. And it fits in your pocket, always a plus. If you just want an overview of the most popular sites, this would not be your best choice. If you are an off-the-beaten-track kind of traveller who likes to delve and find hidden gems, by all means, take BGSF along for the fun. You may want to supplement it with another guide containing photos, as Blue Guides typically include line drawings in black and white.
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