Rome & Central Italy

This is a beautiful and unique wrapping paper from Cavallini & Co. featuring an historical map of Rome 1925 circa, reproducing the area within the city walls. As the title suggests ‘Roma Presente e Avvenire’ ‘Rome Present and Future’, this map emphasises the development proposal of the time and shows the areas due for demolition and reconstructions. You will notice the Via dei Fori Imperiali, which opened i...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. This is a delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits. The story of citrus runs through the history of Italy like a golden thread, and by combining travel writing with history, recipes, horticulture and art, Helena Attlee takes the reader on a unique and rich journey through Italy's cultural, moral, cu...

Rome at 1:12,500 on a “write & wipe” waterproof and tear-resistant, indexed street plan from Michelin with an enlargement of the Piazza Navona area, a road map of the city’s environs, a metro diagram, plus sightseeing recommendations based on the publisher’s Green Guide.

The Pocket Rough Guide Florence is the essential guide to Tuscany's beautiful capital. Whether you're visiting big-hitter museums such as the Uffizi and the Accademia, bar-hopping in the Oltrarno district, or escaping the crowds in hilltop Fiesole, this thoroughly researched guide has all the expert information you'll need. The Best of Florence section picks out the city's highlights, and suggested itinerar...

The Way of St Francis is a month-long trail through the green heart of Italy from Florence to Assisi and then to Rome. At 550km, this is a long trek by any standards and explores the spine of mountains running through central Italy, the Apennines.

Milan PopOut Map: pop-up Milan city map - folded pocket size travel map with transit map included Contents include maps of: Central Milan Greater Milan Metro The Lakes Milan Province Explore Milan with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size, yet big on detail, this compact, dependable city map will ensure you don't miss a thing. * Includes two pop-up maps covering central and...

The Rough Guide to Rome is the ultimate travel guide to this fascinating city, with detailed coverage of all the major sights, including some only recently opened to the public, such as the Stadium of Domitian, the Domus Aurea (Rome's most magnificent ancient building) and Mussolini's bunker at Villa Torlonia. Get the most out of Rome with information on everything from its world-class museums and iconic an...

This guidebook describes 50 walks around Lakes Como, Iseo, Garda and Maggiore in Northern Italy. The picturesque routes are accessible by public transport from popular centres including Bellagio, Riva, Stresa and Cannero, and range from 2 to 14km in length. There are gentle lakeside strolls, and numerous ridge routes and traverses as well as the ascent of Monte Baldo, Monte Boletto and other walker's peaks...

Italy's famous Alta Via long-distance walking routes are spread across the Dolomites running roughly north to south and across to the Austrian border. Increasing in difficulty from AV1 to AV6, they vary in length from 6 to 13 days and range from easy ambles to difficult aided climbs. For the two first routes, described in detail in this guide, overnight stops are at manned mountain huts or guesthouses so wa...

Includes enlargements of Rome, Tivoli, Viterbo- all separately indexed. About this series: Indexed 1:200,000 scale regional maps of Italy with street plans of main cities. Topography is indicated by bold relief shading with spot heights and colouring for forested areas. Detailed road information, characteristic of Michelin’s maps, includes toll and free sections of motorways, road widths, difficult or d...

Central Italy at 1:400,000 in a series of indexed touring maps from Michelin. Enlargements show road access to central Rome and Florence, with additional street plans of these two cities, all indicating principal sights and facilities, main traffic routes, one way street, and in Florence the restricted entry zone; all have a short index listing main streets. The map also indicates locations with street plan...

Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their...

Venice at 1:6,000 on a “write & wipe” waterproof and tear-resistant, indexed street plan from Michelin with plans of Murano, Burano and the Lido, a road map of the Mestre area, a diagram of the vaporetto lines, plus sightseeing recommendations based on the publisher’s Green Guide.

Here are hundreds of irresistible excuses for going to Italy. Be welcomed and utterly seduced by the vitality and sheer authenticity of Italy and its people.

In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. The region boasts beautiful landscapes and miles of dramatic coastline, cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles, and a tremendous wealth of Baroque architecture, as well as rupestrian churches containing Byzantine frescoes. Yet until this book, al...

Abruzzo and Molise in Touring Club Italiano’s series of regional road maps of Italy at 1:200,000, used by millions of locals and tourists alike and always among Stanford’s perennial best-sellers. Coverage extends from Ascoli Piceno in the north to south of Anzio and Monte Cassino, and includes Terni, Rieti, L’Aquila, most of the Monti Sibillini National park, Monti della Laga NP, Gran Sasso d’Italia NP, Mon...

Twelve years after Tim Moore toiled round the route of the Tour de France, he senses his achievement being undermined by the truth about 'Horrid Lance'. His rash response is to take on a fearsome challenge from an age of untarnished heroes: the notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia. History's most appalling bike race was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage - all on a d...

'None of Venice's innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima's character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate...Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city - 'Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee': but by the time they get to...

Lonely Planet Make My Day Rome allows you to effortlessly plan your perfect day. This spiral bound, full colour guide lets you flip through the activity cards that are split into morning, afternoon and evening so that you can plan your itinerary by mixing and matching the cards to build your own day from more than 2000 combinations.

One Hundred and One Beautiful Small Towns of Italy is a gorgeously illustrated as well as informative journey through the Italian countryside, a place where the pace slows, locals engage strangers in conversation, and every town has a unique story to tell. Breathtaking full-colour photographs create the perfect atmosphere as you discover these unexplored places, and descriptive sidebars offer invaluable in...