Blue Guide Florence, 11th Edition

Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1905131755
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fully updated new edition of this essential Blue Guide to the city of the Renaissance. Completely updated, this edition contains superb coverage of painting, architecture and sculpture as well as updates on museums including the reorganized Uffizi. Detailed coverage of where to stay and eat. The depth of information and quality of research make this book the best guide for the independent cultural traveller as well as for all students of art history, architecture and Italian culture. Ideal as an on-site guide as well as a desk resource. With maps, plans and photographs.

Florence

Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393312744
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Twenty-two walks provides a personalized tour of Florence, and carefully selected day trips offer a glimpse of the marvelous Tuscan countryside. Includes new recommendations for the best hotels and restaurants. 20 illustrations. 8 maps. 14 ground plans.

Blue Guide Sicily

Author: Ellen Grady
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1905131747
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fully updated new edition of a key Blue Guide, the guide of choice for experts and independent travelers. Revised and extensively updated, Blue Guide Sicily offers an in-depth history of this historically rich destination. Ellen Grady gives a comprehensive overview of the island—from detailed analyses of cities, sights and works of art to carefully chosen suggestions of where and what to eat and where to stay. The guide is strong on history, art, archaeology, architecture, landscape, conservation and wildlife. Full-color maps, two-tone plans and black-and-white photographs.

Blue Guide Lombardy, Milan & the Italian Lakes

Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher: Blue Guides
ISBN: 9781905131839
Category : Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
First edition in-depth coverage of this exceptional area of Italy.

Northern Italy

Author: Paul Blanchard
Publisher: Blue Guide: Northern Italy
ISBN: 9781905131013
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
SPECIAL REPRINT EDITION: Blue Guide Northern Italy 2005, OF WHICH THIS IS A REPRINT, remains the classic reference source for some of the most stunning scenery and the most famous towns in the world - including, for example, Venice, Verona, Milan and Bologna - focusing on the artists who lived there and the patrons who gave them commissions.

Blue Guide - Northern Italy

Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905131648
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Northern Italy is a treasure-chest of Western civilization: Milan, Bologna, Mantua, Ravenna, Turin, Parma, Venice, and the famous Lakes are must-sees for independent cultural travelers. This new edition of a key Blue Guide helps you know what you need to see as well as where to stay and what to eat.

Americans in Florence

Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher: Giunti Editore
ISBN: 9788809031579
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description

The Accessible Guide to Florence

Author: Cornelia Danielson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465326022
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
One of the worlds great cities, Florence is visited by over six million tourists each year, yet, despite some recent improvements in accessibility, the Cradle of the Renaissance still presents significant barriers. Imagine lunch in an outdoor caf, soaking up the warm September sun, where do you find an accessible restroom? Where to eat in a country whose main staples are bread, pizza, and pasta if you have an intolerance to wheat gluten? In which museums can you touch a Renaissance sculpture if you are visually impaired? Need to rent a wheelchair or find which museums have them on loan? Locate an accessible hotel with a roll-in shower? Find out if your power wheelchair will fit in the elevator of the Uffizi? Or discover the wheelchair-accessible paths in the Boboli Gardens? Reading A Guide to Accessible Florence, an indispensable resource written especially, but not only, for wheelchair or scooter users and slow walkers, will give you the answers to all these questions and to many more.

Blue Book

Author:
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 1004

Book Description

An Art Lover's Guide to Florence

Author: Judith Testa
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090632
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat hundreds of visitors each year for symptoms brought on by trying to see them all, an illness famously identified with the French author Stendhal. While most guidebooks offer only brief descriptions of a large number of works, with little discussion of the historical background, Judith Testa gives a fresh perspective on the rich and brilliant art of the Florentine Renaissance in An Art Lover's Guide to Florence. Concentrating on a number of the greatest works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, Testa explains each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and for whom they made it, deftly treating the complex interplay of politics, sex, and religion that were involved in the creation of those works. With Testa as a guide, armchair travelers and tourists alike will delight in the fascinating world of Florentine art and history.