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Blue Guide Trentino & the South Tyrol
Published 2025An easy-to-carry guide that tours this beautiful region of north Italy, detailing its history, architecture, art, landscape, life and culture. Included are the cities of Trento and Rovereto in Trentino, and Bolzano/Bozen, Merano/Meran and Bressanone/Brixen in the South Tyrol (Alto Adige), together with the peaks, valleys and villages of the…
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Drink & Think Venice
Published 2024The Story of Venice in Twenty-Six Bars and Cafés or A Counterblast against too Sober an Inspection of Monuments Venice’s historic bars and cafés offer a window on the city’s past and present. And there is a dazzling array of drinks to choose from—cocktails, aperitivos, wines from the Venice hinterland…
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Blue Guide Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Published 2023This easy-to-carry guide includes the city of Udine, with its masterpieces by Tiepolo, and the great Adriatic port of Trieste, on the border of two worlds, the Italian and the Central European. Here too is the charming town of Cividale, with its vestiges of Lombard culture, and Aquileia, a fl…
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Blue Guide Italy Food Companion
Published 2023Revised and expanded 3rd edition of this popular pocket-book for Italy holidays and at-home reference. How to enjoy the best of Italian food: understand the menu and know how to order in a restaurant or street market. Complements the Blue Guides’ classic guide-book range as preparation for and accompaniment to…
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Blue Guide Piedmont & the Valle d’Aosta
Published 2023A guide to Italy’s mountainous northwest, including the city of Turin and surrounding royal residences, Lake Maggiore, the mountains and wine country of Piedmont; and the craggy castles, Roman remains and alpine passes of the Valle d’Aosta. Landscape artist, nature lover and long-time Italy-resident Blue Guides author Paul Blanchard tours…
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WRONG PASSPORT
Published 2022‘This country is like a little island, where the people live so happily, as if nothing was wrong with the world…’ When Ralph Brewster wrote those lines, in the summer of 1943, Hungary’s involvement in WWII was still barely felt in Budapest. Less than a year later the Nazis took…
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The Remarkable Mrs ANDERSON
Published 2021When a priceless Leonardo is stolen from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian government tries to hush things up and the police show themselves to be completely clueless. Thank goodness for Milla Anderson! A gifted reporter for one of Budapest’s daily newspapers, she picks up the trail in…
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Blue Guide Rome
Published 2020Fully updated twelfth edition of this classic and indispensable Blue Guide to Rome and the Vatican City: its history, monuments, art, architecture and way of life. Rome may be the Eternal City but it is constantly evolving, with exciting archaeological discoveries being made, monuments restored and opened to the public…
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Blue Guide Hungary Food Companion
Published 2019A new addition to the series, following the popularity of the Blue Guide Italy Food Companion. A pocket-book for Hungary holidays, also ideal for at-home reference. Get to know Hungarian cuisine, learn to decipher a menu and know what to order in a restaurant or street market. Complements Blue Guide…
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Blue Guide Emilia Romagna
Published 2017Emilia Romagna is a region of fine towns and exceptional cuisine, home to Parma ham, spaghetti bolognese and balsamic vinegar. This fully updated chapter from Blue Guide Northern Italy explores all aspects of the region in detail, from the Formula One racetrack at Imola to the stunning mosaics of Ravenna.
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Blue Guide The Veneto with Venice
Published 2017This easy-to-carry guide includes all the main cities of this exceptionally rich region of Italy: Venice, Padua, Verona and Vicenza. Also included are the shores of Lake Garda, the peaks of the Dolomites and the wetlands of the Po Delta. Author Alta Macadam explores the history, art, architecture and landscape…
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Blue Guide The Marche and San Marino
Published 2015New edition of this comprehensive, readable, reliable and affectionate guide. The only full-length English-language guide to focus on this area of eastern Italy. Most of the world’s straw hats and plenty of its shoes come from this fascinating Italian region. With stunning sandy beaches, superb food and wine, national parks,…
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Blue Guide Liguria
Published 2017Liguria is definitely worth a visit. The historic port city of Genoa, with its narrow winding streets and patrician mansions, stands between two coasts of exceptional beauty and interest. The Italian Riviera to the west, with San Remo and the famous gardens of Ventimiglia; and the Portofino peninsula and Cinque…
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Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands
Published 2010WINNER of the Tourmap prize for the best maps in any guidebook published in 2010. This book is the result of five years of fresh research by author Nigel McGilchrist, and detailed editing by Michael Metcalfe and Heinrich Hall, this is the first full Blue Guide treatment of all the…
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Blue Guide Concise Italy
Published 2009In this CONCISE GUIDE the Blue Guides’ Italy authors and editorial team provide a distillation of the BEST OF ITALY in one handy volume: what to see; what it means; who painted, sculpted or built it for whom and why; what to eat and where; where to stay; how to…
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Blue Guide Concise Rome
Published 2009The first in the new Blue Guide Concise city series: small format and good value, ideal for on-site use. Blue Guide Concise Rome builds on Blue Guides’ exhaustive coverage of Italy and its cities. A 224-page, pocket-sized distillation, update and complete rewrite of the full 624-page Blue Guide Rome (2006),…
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Blue Guide Tuscany
Published 2009Tuscany, with Florence its capital and a host of gorgeous medieval cities set in a rolling countryside of fields, vineyards and olive groves, is the cradle of the Renaissance and for many visitors the cultural heart of Italy. This in-depth cultural guide amply covers Florence (itself the subject of a…
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Blue Guide Central Italy
Published 2008Central Italy completes Blue Guides’ geographical coverage of the regions of Italy, with Northern Italy (2005), Sicily (2006) and Southern Italy (2007) all having been recently released. It is the first Blue Guide to cover both Rome and Florence in one book, as well as the attractive countryside and towns…
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Lazio (including Rome)
Published 2008This ebook is an extract from Blue Guide Central Italy, comprising 240 pages of the text version, with superb regional maps, town maps and site plans. Includes a comprehensive historical introduction, practical information on where to eat and stay, and information about local food and wine. Lazio, the region of…
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Umbria
Published 2008This ebook is an extract from Blue Guide Central Italy, comprising 130 pages of the text version, with superb regional maps, town maps and site plans. Includes a comprehensive historical introduction, practical information on where to eat and stay, and information about local food and wine. Umbria is the very…