The American Express Pocket Guide to Venice

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Jhe American Express Pocket Travel Guides
The Americair Express Pocket Guide to Venice
An innovative series of books designed to enhance every aspect of travel enjoyment, the American Express Pocket Travel Guides offer a unique, easy-to-use blend of information. Prepared in pocket format for maximum portability, they contain much more information than other guides many times their size, and include all the advice you need for a successful vacation or business trip, in one pocket-size volume.
Well-designed, easy to read and easy to carry packed with concise information" {New York Pasty, "We only used one guide book, Sheila Hale's miniature American Express Guide, Venice, for which she and the editors deserve a Nobel Prize" (Eric Newby) Get the most out of your visit to Venice:
¦ Planning and Basic Travel Advice
Includes a calendar of events, walks, boat rides and
¦ Hotels, restaurants and shopping
Select recommendations in every category and price range, with general advice... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Jhe American Express Pocket Travel Guides
The Americair Express Pocket Guide to Venice
An innovative series of books designed to enhance every aspect of travel enjoyment, the American Express Pocket Travel Guides offer a unique, easy-to-use blend of information. Prepared in pocket format for maximum portability, they contain much more information than other guides many times their size, and include all the advice you need for a successful vacation or business trip, in one pocket-size volume.
Well-designed, easy to read and easy to carry packed with concise information" {New York Pasty, "We only used one guide book, Sheila Hale's miniature American Express Guide, Venice, for which she and the editors deserve a Nobel Prize" (Eric Newby) Get the most out of your visit to Venice:
¦ Planning and Basic Travel Advice
Includes a calendar of events, walks, boat rides and
¦ Hotels, restaurants and shopping
Select recommendations in every category and price range, with general advice on where to stay, and where (and what) to eat, drink and buy
¦ Sightseeing
Full A-Z of Venice and environs with all the major sights described in detail
¦ Special Features
Food and wine; shopping; nightlife; ideas for children; excursions to Padua, Vicenza, Verona and the Palladian villas
¦ How to Get Around
With 16 pages of beautifully detailed four-color maps
¦ Symbols
Used throughout to encapsulate information
The American Express Pocket Guide to Venice
$10.95
The beauty and cultural eminence of Venice are as remarkable today as ever, and this complete and detailed guide will ensure that you will enjoy them to the fullest. Venice is the city of gondolas on the Grand Canal; the Piazza San Marco, with the gloriously Gothic Doges' Palace; the Bridge of Sighs; the Basilica of San Marco, with its fabulous mosaics; superb museums and magnificent art collections; and the islands of the lagoon.
All the sights and places of interest in Venice are described, and advice is given on where to stay and where and what to eat and drink. The islands and the Lido are treated in detail; excursions to nearby cities are included. Superb four-color maps show the center of Venice in detail, and surrounding areas.
Venice is unique, romantic, magical - and with this comprehensive and concise book in hand, the visitor can choose the most effective ways to see and do the best of everything in the time available.
Sheila Hale is also the author of The American Express Pocket Guide to Florence and Tuscany. She was born in New York, but has lived in Italy and England since 1962. She contributes to a number of American and British newspapers and magazines and is writing a book about the architecture of Verona, published in 1991, and an artistic guide to Italy. Vissza