Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781760340520
• eBook ISBN: 9781760341572

Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips, your passport to encountering Italy by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit on the way. Follow the trail of bohemians and intellectuals from hedonistic beach towns to Renaissance jewels, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to Italy, rent a car, and hit the road!Inside Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips: Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Detours, Walking Tours and Link Your Trip Covers Turin and the Riviera, Genoa, Venice, Padua, Florence and Tuscany, Rome and Lazio, Naples and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips is perfect for exploring the classic sights of Italy via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Want to have a full-fledged Italian road trip? Check out Lonely Planet Italy's Best Trips for road trip itineraries that will give you a taste of what the whole country has to offer. Or looking to road trip in other Italian regions? Check out Lonely Planet's Amalfi Coast Road Trips, Italian Lakes Road Trips, or Tuscany Road Trips. Planning an Italian trip sans a car? Lonely Planet Italy, our most comprehensive guide to Italy, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for a guide focused on a specific Italian city? Check out Lonely Planet's Rome, Florence & Tuscany, orVenice & the Veneto guides for comprehensive looks at all that these cities have to offer, or Pocket Rome, Pocket Florence & Tuscany, Pocket Venice, or Pocket Milan & the Italian Lakes, handy-sized guides focused on the can't-miss sights for quick city excursions. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embe

Destinations

Rome

No trip through Italy would be complete without a visit to the Eternal City – a place that has dazzled visitors for centuries.

Florence

Cradle of the Renaissance and of tourist masses that flock here to feast on world-class art, Florence is magnetic, romantic and busy.

Venice & Padua

A fabled lagoon city awash with art, music and spice-route cuisine, and a medieval city-state home to Italy’s second-oldest university.

Turin & Genoa

Elegant baroque Turin is only two hours from fabled port city Genoa.

Naples & Around

Naples is a love-it-or-loathe-it sprawl of operatic palazzi and churches, mouthwatering markets and art-crammed museums.

Piazza Grande, Arezzo
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Rome

Ever since its glory days as an ancient superpower, Rome has been astonishing visitors. Its museums and basilicas showcase some of Europe’s most celebrated masterpieces. But nothing can capture the sheer elation of experiencing Rome’s operatic streets, baroque piazzas and colourful neighbourhood markets.

ROME

Pop 2.86 million

According to myth, Rome was founded on the Palatino (Palatine Hill) by Romulus, twin brother of Remus and son of Mars, god of war. Historians offer a more prosaic version of events, claiming that Romulus became the first king of Rome on 21 April 753 BC. By AD 100 Rome had a population of 1.5 million and was the undisputed caput mundi (capital of the world). The cityscape reflects Rome’s rise and fall over the centuries, and its museums and basilicas showcase some of Europe’s most celebrated masterpieces.

Rome

1 Sights

1 Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano C4

2 Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere B4

3 Capitoline Museums B4

4 Colosseum C4

5 Museo e Galleria Borghese C2

6 Museo Nazionale Romano: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme C3

7 Palatino B4

8 Pantheon B3

9 Piazza di Spagna & the Spanish Steps B3

10 Roman Forum B4

11 St Peter’s Basilica A3

12 Trevi Fountain B3

13 Vatican Museums A3

14 Via Appia Antica C5

2 Activities, Courses & Tours

15 Roman Kitchen B3

16 Top Bike Rental & Tours C4

17 Vino Roma C4

4 Sleeping

18 Althea Inn B5

19 Arco del Lauro B4

20 Beehive C3

21 Donna Camilla Savelli A4

22 Palm Gallery Hotel C2

23 Residenza Maritti B4

24 Villa Laetitia B2

25 Villa Spalletti Trivelli C3

5 Eating

26 Cafè Cafè C4

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Table of contents

• Cover
• How to Use This eBook
• Contents
• Welcome to the Grand Tour of Italy
• Grand Tour of Italy Map
• Grand Tour of Italy Highlights
• City Guide
• Need to Know
• Road Trips
• Destinations
• Road Trip Essentials
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers
• Back Cover