Lonely Planet Italy (Travel Guide)

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With four seas and a coastline that stretches for 7600km, Italy counts some of the Mediterranean’s best beaches. Feast your eyes on a vision of Sardinian beach perfection at La Pelosa 1, a stunning beach on an island of stunning beaches. I have more than 5 Lonelyplanet Phrasebooks and it’s impressive to see how much they cover and how accurate the phrases are for each situation. Emptied by emigration in the 1970s, its kindness in welcoming a ship of refugees in 1997 initiated a dramatic revival.

Many of them will point you to their favorite local restaurant and take the time to explain why their towns' panzerotto (fried pastry), tiedda (Bari's famous rice potatoes and mussels dish), or grape variety, are undoubtedly, and incontestably, the best. You’ll find them all over the country, but they are a particular feature of central Italy where every hillside in Umbria and Le Marche seems to come with a charming medieval town of its own. Most of the top resorts are in the northern Alps, but you’ll also find smaller resorts dotted around the Apennines, particularly in the central Abruzzo region. To the south, you’ll find exhilarating walking in Abruzzo’s Apennines and the Monti Sibillini in Umbria and Le Marche.It really is the kind of place that rewards taking it slow, whether you’re kicking back at a waterfront table in Vernazza with a glass of wine in hand or listening to birdsong and resting your weary legs at an ancient sanctuary on a clifftop high above. Italy’s cuisine is famously regional and wherever you go, you’ll be presented with specialities rooted in local traditions and home-grown culinary lore. Our guide to Italy's highlights, featuring the best sights and recommended itineraries for a curated selection of top destinations, this visually inspiring guide will help you to make the most of your time in Italy. Since our inception in 1973, we've inspired generations of travelers to discover amazing places and enabled curious travelers to get off the beaten paths to appreciate different cultures and become agents of positive change. At the same time, Alberobello, another of Puglia's Unesco World Heritage Sites, will leave you speechless with its trulli, traditional stone houses with cone-shaped roofs.

Well, I just double checked my Naples and the Amalfi Coast LP guide book as well as my Italy one - lo and behold - plenty of hotel recommendations. Often accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders, it’s the classic teenage response to pretty much any question. International White Truffle Fair Chefs, cooks and foodies flock to Alba in October to delight in the eye-wateringly expensive white truffle.Summon the roar of the crowds as you scale the stands of the Colosseum 1, the greatest gladiatorial amphitheatre in the Roman world.

I have the 2018 version of the Florence and Tuscany book and, unless I am really that dense, there are no accommodation recommendations to be had. Italy is a country that lives to eat, where food is central to social life and culinary traditions are revered with heartfelt pride.Puglia's 940km (584 miles) of coastline, which were once part of the Magna Graecia and harbored ancient Romans' mighty flotillas, outlines what is known as the "boot heel" of Italy.

In February and March, the ski slopes in the Valle d’Aosta are stunning and there’s no shortage of opportunities for organising ski trips.At Al Trabucco da Mimì in Peschici, you can sip a glass of d'Araprì, one of Puglia's best sparkling wines, sitting on the old wooden structure while a band of jazz musicians plays as the sun drops down below the horizon.