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...

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...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Pocket Venice is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Grand Canal by gondola, admire the Basilica di San Marco, or snack on tapas-style cicheti in a Cannaregio bar; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the be...

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...

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.

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...

Long established, The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto is the most thorough and reliable guide to the city and its surroundings. With stunning photography to inspire you, in-depth coverage to guide you and clear maps to steer you, this guide will ensure you make the most of your time in Venice, whether you want to visit the big name sights of the Basilica di San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale, escape the ...

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 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...

Lake Garda and Verona on an Insight Flexi Pocket Map in their new format introduced to provide more convenient access to the special features of this series: various additional maps and/or street plans plus tourist information including a list of must-see sights. The map is tear-resistant, waterproof, and can be written on with non-permanent marker pens.

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.

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...

'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...

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...

DK Eyewitness Pocket Map & Guide: Venice will lead you straight to the best of Venice. It's packed with beautiful illustrations and coverage of all the major areas and sights from museums to parks and markets. There's comprehensive area-by-area information and referencing, and recommendations for the best hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, galleries and other cultural attractions. You won't miss a thing on y...

In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual liv...

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...

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...

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...