The Rough Guide to Tuscany & UmbriaThe new, full-colour Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria is the ultimate travel guide to some of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Covering the region more comprehensively than any other guide, it's packed with up-to-date and expert information on all the attractions, from the great museums of Florence and Siena to the tiny rural hill-towns, as well as guiding you to the best of the beaches, forests, mountains and vineyard-clad hills. It also it gives you the lowdown on the best hotels and restaurants for all budgets, and illuminates the sights with background information on history, folklore, art, architecture and festivals. Dozens of photographs and easy-to-use colour maps complete a guide that has long been established as the best you can buy. |
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The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria Tim Jepson,Jonathan Buckley,Mark Ellingham Limited preview - 2012 |
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ACCOMMODATION altar altarpiece April–Oct Arezzo artist Assisi Baptistery Basilica Breakfast included building built buses Campo Cappella Castello cathedral central centre century chapel Chianti city’s closed comune Corso Cosimo daily decorated depicting Domenico Donatello Etruscan facade festival Florence Florence’s Florentine forthe fourteenthcentury fresco cycle frescoes garden Giovanni Gubbio hilltowns hourly interior inthe Italian Italy Italy’s loggia Lucca Madonna and Child marble Medici medieval Michelangelo midMarch Mon–Fri Mon–Sat Montalcino Monte Museo dell’Opera museum Norcia Nov–March ofthe Orvieto overthe paintings Palazzo panels park pasta Perugia Piazza del Duomo Pienza Pietro Pisa Pope Porta Prato region Renaissance restaurant road Roman Romanesque Rome rooms saint San Francesco San Gimignano San Lorenzo Sansepolcro Sat & Sun scenes sculpture Siena Sienese sixteenthcentury Spoleto superb there’s ticket tomb Tourist office town town’s train station truffles Tues–Sun Tuscany Uffizi Umbria Valnerina Vecchio village walls wifi wine