Insight Guides Italian Lakes

by Insight Guides

Overview

Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure

Insight Guide Italian Lakes offers you a uniquely comprehensive approach to getting the most out of your trip to one of the most popular destinations in the world. Engaging chapters consider the region's fine art and extraordinary buildings as well as its superb gastronomy and status as a celebrity playground.

Inside Insight Guide Italian Lakes:

• Tips for exploring the breathtaking landscape, visiting the local wine trails as well as family days out ensure that you don't miss a thing. All the lakes, including Garda, Iseo, Como, Maggiore and Orta, are covered in addition to the sophisticated towns of Verona, Brescia, Bergamo and Milan.
• Full-colour photographs throughout give you a true flavour of life in the region today.
• Detailed maps plot all the major sights you'll want to see.
• Travel Tips sections offer selective advice on where to eat and the activities available.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786710055
Publisher:	Insight Guides
Publication date:	03/28/2017
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	445,736
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Insight Guides wherever possible uses local experts who provide insider know-how and share their love and knowledge of the destination.

Editorial Reviews

Is there anything of consequence not included in an Insight Guide? Two of the newest additions to the series will take you through the lovely lake region of northern Italy with ease and an abundance of information. A potential first-time visitor will want the larger book, rather than the Step by Step, as it is dense with text, color photographs, and maps. The contents cover history, art, architecture, wildlife, top sights, castles, wine and oil routes, rock art, the silk industry, places to stay, restaurants and bars, nightlife, annual events, shopping, celebrity residents, and more. Although there's much coverage of the region's more than a half-dozen lakes, Lake Como and Lake Garda being the most familiar, there's also extensive information about the lake country cities of Verona, Lugano, and Milan. Smaller in size, but equally crammed with all the features expected from an Insight Guide, Italian Lakes Step by Step has 18 itineraries suggested by local experts and a detailed pull-out map. Most of the itineraries are for day trips-on foot or by car or boat-making this guide most useful as a take-along (and thus less recommended for library circulation). Just browsing either guide will prompt a reader to consider a visit to the area, and public libraries with large European travel sections will be especially interested in adding Insight Guide's Italian Lakes to their collections.
—Janet Ross

Library Journal