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1 online resource |
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Vendor-supplied metadata. |
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This personal, and wonderfully well-informed, selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages, and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveler. The author has been visiting Italy, for study, for work, and for pleasure, for over fifty years, and is the perfect companion for those who want to know about more than the obvious attractions. As well as comprehensively covering the finest sights in the major tourist centers of Rome, Florence, Venice, and elsewhere, Francis Russell discusses and describes the neglected, or little-known, masterpieces that are still to be found the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. In a book that will educate and astonish the expert as surely as it will guide and inform the first-time visitor, the author chooses and explores palaces and gardens, city squares and lonely churches, frescoes and altarpieces, great museums and tiny ruins that together provide a richly textured portrait of a country where the history and patterns of civilization lie more thickly than anywhere else on earth. This book will immeasurably enhance and enrich the visitor's experience of the most visited country in the world, by virtue of its sensitivity, its wisdom, and its deep knowledge, and by means of its vivid, eloquent, and entertaining exposition. |
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Table of Contents; Introduction; PIEDMONT; 1. Turin; 2. Varallo; 3. Vercelli; LIGURIA; 4. Genoa; LOMBARDY; 5. Pavia; 6. Milan; 7. Saronno; 8. Castiglione Olona; 9. Isola Bella; 10. Como; 11. Treviglio; 12. Crema; 13. Bergamo; 14. Brescia; 15. Mantua; THE TRENTINO; 16. Trent; THE VENETO; 17. Verona; 18. Vicenza; 19. Padua; 20. Venice; 21. Castelfranco; 22. Maser; 23. Possagno; FRIULI; 24. Aquileia and Grado; 25. Palmanova; 26. Udine; 27. Cividale Del Friuli; 28. Trieste; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; 29. Pomposa; 30. Ferrara; 31. Ravenna; 32. Piacenza; 33. Parma; 34. Bologna; 35. Cesena; TUSCANY. |
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36. Florence37. Poggio a Caiano; 38. Pistoia; 39. Lucca; 40. Pisa; 41. Volterra; 42. San Gimignano; 43. Siena; 44. Pienza; 45. Sant'Antimo; 46. Arezzo; 47. Cortona; 48. La Verna; 49. Borgo San Sepolcro; UMBRIA; 50. Citta Di Castello; 51. Gubbio; 52. Perugia; 53. Panicale and Citta Della Pieva; 54. Assisi; 55. Montefalco; 56. Montesanto; 57. Spoleto; 58. Orvieto; THE MARCHE; 59. Urbino; 60. Mondavio; 61. Loreto; 62. Servigliano; 63. Monte San Giusto; 64. Fermo; 65. Ascoli Piceno; LAZIO; 66. Viterbo; 67. Bagnaia; 68. Caprarola; 69. Tuscania; 70. Tarquinia; 71. Rome; 72. Ostia; 73. Tivoli. |
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74. AnagniTHE ABRUZZI; 75. L'Aquila; 76. Atri; CAMPANIA; 77. Naples; 78. Cuma; 79. Pompeii; 80. Amalfi; 81. Paestum; 82. Padula; APULIA; 83. Lucera; 84. Monte Sant'Angelo; 85. Trani; 86. Bitonto; 87. Castel Del Monte; 88. Lecce; BASILICATA; 89. Matera; CALABRIA; 90. Taverna; SICILY; 91. Syracuse; 92. Pantalica; 93 Ragusa Ibla; 94. Segesta; 95. Monreale; 96. Palermo; SARDINIA; 97. Cagliari; 98. Oristano and Santa Giusta; 99. The Losa and Santu Antine Nuraghi; 100. Ardara and Sant'Antioco Di Bisarcio; 101. Olbia; Glossary; Index. |
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Art -- Italy -- Guidebooks.
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Museums -- Italy -- Guidebooks.
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Italy -- Guidebooks.
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Italy -- Description and travel.
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TRAVEL -- Europe -- General.
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Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
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Museums. (OCoLC)fst01030128
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
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Guidebooks. (OCoLC)fst01423871
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One hundred one places in Italy |
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Print version: Russell, Francis. 101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour. New York : Bitter Lemon Press, ©2014 9781908524324 |
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9781908524331 (electronic bk.) |
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1908524332 (electronic bk.) |
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EB00652196 Recorded Books |
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