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'"The best all-round coverage of attractions and places to sleep and eat" ' - Sunday Times, London
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The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria is the most complete guide with detailed coverage of all the best attractions Tuscany and Umbria have to offer. Discover the vibrant regions of Tuscany and Umbria; with full accounts of Tuscany and Umbria's major centres of Florence, Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Assisi and Orvieto, complete with coverage of the many smaller towns and villages of Tuscany and Umbria. Fully updated and expanded, guide features detailed coverage of the regions' many sublime landscapes, from the wooded hills and vineyards of Chianti, to the mountains of the Alpi Apuane and lucid accounts of the regions' artistic and cultural attractions. Find detailed practical advice on what to see and do in Tuscany and Umbria, whilst relying on up-to-the-minute recommendations of the best hotels in Tuscany and Umbria, authentic restaurants and bars in Tuscany and Umbria, plus all the insider tips for the best shopping and entertainment options in Tuscany and Umbria, whatever your budget. Explore all corners of Tuscany and Umbria with the clearest maps of any guide.
Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The rough guide has all the bits that you'd like to see in a tourist books and only touches briefly (rightly so in my opinion) the main tourist attractions. It therefore covers a lot more information about the things we would miss normally. Lots of odds and ends to whet ones appetite.
Has eating places and accommodation with honest comments !
About 3/4 is Tuscany and 1/4 Umbria. Perhaps hadly surprising but does cover a fair amount of the cities including Perugia and about. A whole section on Florence. A 'must have' if you like to find the real Italy.
Well worth the money but get it well before you go, or you will want to have a second (or more) visit if you only read it when you arrive.
Has eating places and accommodation with honest comments !
About 3/4 is Tuscany and 1/4 Umbria. Perhaps hadly surprising but does cover a fair amount of the cities including Perugia and about. A whole section on Florence. A 'must have' if you like to find the real Italy.
Well worth the money but get it well before you go, or you will want to have a second (or more) visit if you only read it when you arrive.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I find Rough Guides invaluble for independent travel in Europe and the Tuscany and Umbria guide has been very useful this year. It gives not only all the cultural information most will need but also recommends restaurants, hotels and other accommodation. Additionally it gives information about travel within the region. There are useful street maaps of major towns and cities, pinpointing recommended hotels and restaurants etc.
Rough guides years ago catered for the pretty hard up traveller. They have gradually moved upmarket but still give recommendations of establishments over a range of prices.
Rough guides years ago catered for the pretty hard up traveller. They have gradually moved upmarket but still give recommendations of establishments over a range of prices.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From experience on our trip to Tuscany:
Pluses:
- almost every significant museum and church is described on a room-by-room (or chapel-by-chapel) basis, which makes a huge difference given the information provided by most museums is scanty at best. For that alone, the book gets 4 stars.
- the practical information on public transport, opening times is very detailed and seemed to be pretty much all still correct.
- the language section at the back was considerably more helpful than the Berlitz phrase book I took along.
Minuses:
- although there is a colour section of 27 'highlights' at the front, there is very little attempt to give even a subjective list of highlights for each of the major towns. Maybe Rough Guides try to leave that kind of thing to the more didactic guide books, but in Tuscany plenty of towns have more to see than some small countries. And given the text consists mainly of picture-less descriptions of the inside of museums (see above), it isn't easy work deciding what to see without wading through the whole lot.
- we found that the restaurant reviews picked out places that were adequate at best, we did much better (and much worse) when we went off-book
Pluses:
- almost every significant museum and church is described on a room-by-room (or chapel-by-chapel) basis, which makes a huge difference given the information provided by most museums is scanty at best. For that alone, the book gets 4 stars.
- the practical information on public transport, opening times is very detailed and seemed to be pretty much all still correct.
- the language section at the back was considerably more helpful than the Berlitz phrase book I took along.
Minuses:
- although there is a colour section of 27 'highlights' at the front, there is very little attempt to give even a subjective list of highlights for each of the major towns. Maybe Rough Guides try to leave that kind of thing to the more didactic guide books, but in Tuscany plenty of towns have more to see than some small countries. And given the text consists mainly of picture-less descriptions of the inside of museums (see above), it isn't easy work deciding what to see without wading through the whole lot.
- we found that the restaurant reviews picked out places that were adequate at best, we did much better (and much worse) when we went off-book
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Tuscany and Umbria
Very good product as ever from Rough Guide with lots of good recommendations of what to do and where to eat. Read more
Published 1 month ago by jimbo
Fantastic detail
We bought this prior to a week long visit to northern Tuscany centred around Lucca, an area of Italy we hadn't visited before. Read more
Published 7 months ago by johnserinus
Too much culture
I was in Tuscany for a week with my 2 teenage kids. This book is useful for culture vultures but for us it was too much detail on the cultural stuff and not enough other details... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Dragon
Tuscany Book
have found it an interesting read. I hope it contains all the information that we need when we visit the area later this year.
Published 14 months ago by buyer
A great help in planning our trip.
As ever, the rough guides are a great starting point in planning a trip. We have used this one to plan our itinerary to Florence this summer, and it seems to provide all the detais... Read more
Published on 29 May 2010 by J. Bruce
Great as ever
I keep buying Rough Guides as they provide the best background and foundation to explore and have a great informed but independent holiday. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2010 by Andy Rutherford
Good directory of places to see, eat and stay
Like other rough guides, this is a great and up to date list of hotels, sights and restaurants, and is perfect if you already have an idea what you want to do with your time. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by Bernard Sumption
Good but...
We were only in Tuscany for two weeks and I found this a little bit too much information. Didn't really use it that much as it blinded you by so much information and it wasn't... Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2009 by C. Greenwood
Detailed but not pretty
A typical Rough Guide, if you have used them before you know what you are going to get. Good information slanted towards the independent traveller with public transport links and... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by Dr. F. C. A. Mills
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