Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781760340537
• eBook ISBN: 9781760341589

Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering the Italian lakes by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, marvel at the region's opulence and natural beauty, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the Italian lakes, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet Italian Lakes 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 Milan, Venice, Lakes Maggiore, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Trentino and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Italian Lakes Road Trips is perfect for exploring the Italian Lakes 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, Tuscany Road Trips, or Grand Tour of Italy 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 Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and im

Destinations

Milan

Home to the nation’s stock exchange, one of Europe’s biggest trade-fair grounds and an international fashion hub, Milan is also Italy’s economic powerhouse.

Around Milan

Beyond Milan pretty countryside unfolds, while to the north a burst of Mediterranean colour and a balmy microclimate await around the lakes.

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.

Trento & the North

The provinces of Trentino and Alto Adige offer up a number of stunning wilderness areas, where adventure and comfort can be found in equal measure.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele mall, Milan
CULTURA RM EXCLUSIVE/ANTHONY CHARLES/GETTY IMAGES ©

Milan

At Lombardy’s heart is Milan, capital of the north and Italy’s second-largest metropolis. Home to the nation’s stock exchange, one of Europe’s biggest trade-fair grounds and an international fashion hub, it is also Italy’s economic powerhouse.

MILAN

POP 1.3 MILLION

Milan is Italy’s city of the future, a fast-paced metropolis with New World qualities: ambition, aspiration and a highly individualistic streak. In Milan appearances really do matter and materialism requires no apology. The Milanese love beautiful and luxurious things, and it is for that reason perhaps that Italian fashion and design maintain their esteemed global position.

But like the models that work the catwalks, Milan is considered by many to be vain, distant and dull. And it is true that the city makes little effort to seduce visitors. However, this superficial lack of charm disguises a city of ancient roots and many treasures, which, unlike in the rest of Italy, you’ll often get to experience without the queues. So while the Milanese may not always play nice, jump in and join them regardless in their intoxicating round of pursuits, whether that means precision-shopping, browsing edgy contemporary galleries or loading up a plate with local delicacies while downing an expertly mixed negroni cocktail.

Milan

1 Top Sights

1 Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia B6

2 The Last Supper B5

1 Sights

Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie (see 2)

2 Activities, Courses & Tours

3 Ad Artem F1

4 Ansaldo Workshops A8

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Table of contents

• Cover
• How to Use This eBook
• Contents
• Welcome to Italian Lakes
• Italian Lakes Map
• Italian Lakes Highlights
• City Guide
• Need to Know
• Road Trips
• Destinations
• Road Trip Essentials
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers
• Index
• Back Cover