A Guide to Tuscany

By James Bentley

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670802166
• ISBN13: 9780670802166
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"

Customer Reviews

Armchair Travel at its Best

This is a delightful and excellent guide to Tuscany and well worth the struggle to find a copy. Yes, some of the information (such as recommended hotels and inns) is now somewhat out of date, but the historical information, introduction to the terrain, villages, food and wine of the region is first rate. If you're headed to Tuscany, read this book before you go and be sure to copy and take with you the chapter on visiting the Uffizi Museum, which lays out a large number of this incredible museum's highlights for you in an easy-to-follow, room-by-room recommended walking tour. I loved the chapter on the poets and authors who have fallen in love with Tuscany's many charms (although I found the chapter on the "English" in Tuscany less engaging, but then I'm not British), and the chapter on Tuscan food and wine is exactly the sort of information one needs to know before arriving.