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Florence
Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital city
of Italy's Tuscany region, and was from 1865 to 1870, the capital of
Italy.
As of 2006,
the city had a population of 366,488.
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By MobileReference
MobileReference
Released: 2012-01-31
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This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide also features an itinerary with our suggestions for your travel route.
Please search for "Travel Florence, Tuscany and Umbria", part of the Mobi Travel series, if you are interested in the complete travel guide that includes more maps and attractions with additional articles on history, cultural venues, transportation, districts, dining, accommodations, units conversion, and a phrasebook.
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By Rick Steves
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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Florence and Tuscany.
With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll discover the geographic heart of Italy. Take the Renaissance Walk and tour the Uffizi Gallery to learn how Florence taught civilized living to the rest of Europe. Wander through the medieval city of Siena and find out what Pisa has to offer beyond the Leaning Tower. Relax in sunny Tuscan hill towns where you’ll enjoy full-bodied wine, the world’s best gelato, and the company of friendly locals.
Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. You’ll learn how to get around by train, bus, or rental car and get up-to-date advice on what’s worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket. |
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By Reid Bramblett
DK Travel
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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Guides make any destination accessible by offering dozens of lists of the 10 best restaurants, bars, neighborhoods, hotels, local attractions, and much more. With insider tips for every visitor, the Top 10 series offers inside knowledge, and now contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day. |
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By Rick Steves
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Tuscany Paperback (552 pages)
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Click Here | - You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Florence and Tuscany
- Wander through the medieval city of Siena and find out what Pisa has to offer beyond the Leaning Tower
- You'll learn how to get around by train, bus, or rental car and get up-to-date advice on what's worth your time and money
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You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Florence and Tuscany. With the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll discover the geographic heart of Italy. Take the Renaissance Walk and tour the Uffizi Gallery to learn how Florence taught civilized living to the rest of Europe. Wander through the medieval city of Siena and find out what Pisa has to offer beyond the Leaning Tower. Relax in sunny Tuscan hill towns where you’ll enjoy full-bodied wine, the world’s best gelato, and the company of friendly locals. Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. You’ll learn how to get around by train, bus, or rental car and get up-to-date advice on what’s worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket. |
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By Double Pixel Publications
Double Pixel Publications
Released: 2011-05-24
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Florence 2011 is one of a new series of travel guides for the Amazon Kindle, dedicated to providing you with top notch travel advice at an extremely reasonable price - welcome to 99¢ Cities!
These books are formatted like a magazine or blog instead of a regular book. That means that you can quickly jump to the table of contents no matter where you are, and you can quickly skip from section to section, perfect for a guidebook!
This guide includes travel topics such as dining, shopping, accommodations, and transportation, maps and pictures of the city, notes on staying safe, a full Italian phrasebook, and more.
Florence is full of history and beauty, with new sights around every corner. Spend more time enjoying the city and less time fumbling through guidebooks with Florence 2011 (99c Cities) loaded on your Kindle.
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Streetwise Maps
Released: 2011-02-01
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Streetwise Florence Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Florence, Italy - Folding pocket size travel map with train tracks & stationsThis map covers the following areas:
Main Florence, Italy Map 1:10,000
Florence Area Map 1:150,000
Central Florence Map 1:5,700 Famous for its art, high culture, history, and sumptuous cuisine, Florence is a city that must be discovered on foot. Gradually, in dozens of churches, museums, and palaces, the extraordinary riches of the city reveal themselves. Here are the paintings, sculptures and frescoes that illuminated new ways of seeing the world revealing the power of the Renaissance. STREETWISE® Florence Italy Map, complete with street, site and hotel index, enables you to explore each hidden corner of this city and to discover its historic importance and artistic richness on your own. The Regional map of Florence will guide you on your discovery to the hillside towns surrounding Florence, giving you greater freedom to discover the glory of Tuscany, Italy. Our pocket size map of Florence is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Florence map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Florence map today and you too can navigate Florence, Italy like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the search bar. |
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Released: 2007-09-26
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This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide is complemented by clearly marked maps that are linked to city attractions. An interlinked phrasebook as well as a pronunciation guide are included.
This travel guide also features an itinerary with our suggestions for your travel route. Itineraries include links to individual attraction articles.
NEW FEATURE: The attraction articles now include links to Google Maps. On a dedicated electronic reader with a slow connection and a primitive browser, Google Maps will display the attraction on the map along with metro stations, roads, and nearby attractions. On an internet-enabled device such as the iPhone and the iPad, Google Maps will even show you the route from your current location to the attraction you want to go to.
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All travel guides in the Mobi Travel series are only $4.99 or less. Search for any title: enter mobi (short for MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Paris.
Table of Contents:
Essentials: A-Z INDEX | Phrasebook | Eat | Drink | Stay Safe | Driving in Europe | Units Conversion
1. Introduction: Tuscany | Umbria | Get in | Get around | Climate | Money
2. Maps: Italy | Florence | Blocks | Florence Public Transportation
3. Florence
3.1 Florence: Tourist Offices | Climate | History | Demographics | Economy | Eat | Drink | Sleep | Stay Safe | Get Out
3.2 Florence Transport: Get in | Get around | Santa Maria Novella Station | Peretola Airport | Trenitalia
3.3 Florence Attractions: Top 10 | Main Attractions | Itinerary | Do | Buy
3.4 Florence Landmarks: Museums | Art & Sculpture | Palaces | Villas and parks | Squares | Churches | Bridges | Streets | Arno River
4. Tuscany
4.1 Tuscany - Main Attractions: Arezzo | Florence (Firenze) | Cortona | Grosseto | Livorno | Lucca | Montepulciano | Pisa | Pistoia | Prato | Siena
4.2 Province of Arezzo: Arezzo | Castiglion Fiorentino | Civitella in Val di Chiana | Cortona | Foiano della Chiana | Lucignano | Poppi | Pratovecchio | Sansepolcro | Sestino
4.3 Province of Florence: Florence | Certaldo | Empoli | Fiesole | Greve in Chianti | Impruneta | San Casciano in Val di Pesa
4.4 Province of Grosseto: Grosseto | Capalbio | Castel del Piano | Castiglione della Pescaia | Isola del Giglio | Manciano | Monte Argentario | Orbetello | Pitigliano | Sorano
4.5 Province of Livorno: Livorno | Cecina | Piombino | Portoferraio
4.6 Province of Lucca: Lucca | Bagni di Lucca | Barga | Borgo a Mozzano | Castelnuovo di Garfagnana | Castiglione di Garfagnana | Pescaglia | Pietrasanta | Viareggio
4.7 Province of Massa-Carrara: Carrara | Massa | Pontremoli
4.8 Province of Pisa: Pisa | Cascina | Montecatini Val di Cecina | San Giuliano Terme | San Miniato | Volterra
4.9 Province of Pistoia: Pistoia | Montecatini Terme | Pescia
4.10 Province of Prato: Prato | Carmignano | Poggio a Caiano
4.11 Province of Siena: Siena | Asciano | Castellina in Chianti | Castiglione d'Orcia | Cetona | Chianciano Terme | Chiusi | Colle di Val d'Elsa | Montalcino | Montepulciano | Monteriggioni | Pienza | Poggibonsi | Radicofani | San Casciano dei Bagni | San Gimignano | Sinalunga
4.12 Islands: Elba | Capraia | Pianosa | Montecristo | Giglio | Giannutri
5. Umbria
5.1 Umbria - Main Attractions: Assisi | Gubbio | Orvieto | Perugia
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By Vesna Neskow
Peter Pauper Press
Released: 2010-12-01
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2011 Edition. Here's what to see and do, and where to eat, sleep, drink, shop, and stay, from Florence, Firenze, 'City of Flowers,'' to Tuscany's rolling hills, medieval towns, and beyond! Author Vesna Neskow introduces the places and pleasures of the region, including its famous cuisine, rich in ingredients produced locally, and equally renowned wines. Ms. Neskow lived in Europe for 13 years. She speaks six languages. Her TV work has been produced by CBS and broadcast on NPR, and she has written for the New York Times Book Review.This bestselling travel guide features:
* Color-coded, numbered entries in the text keyed to full-color area maps in each chapter
* ''Top Picks'' directing you to not-to-be-missed attractions
* Full-color spot illustrations throughout to liven the text
* 8 easy-to-use maps
''Of all the popular travel destinations in Italy, none rank higher than the Renaissance cities and the rolling countryside of Florence and Tuscany. That's why The Little Black Book Of Florence & Tuscany . . . is a 'must' for any business traveler or vacationer to those two colorful and history-laden communities. Enhanced with the inclusion of 8 fold-out maps and a wealth of 'insider tips' makes this highly portable, enthusiastically recommended, 256-page compendium of practical and 'user friendly' information on where to go, what to see, things to do, and places to eat and shop. An indispensable resource for planning itineraries and getting the most out of a visit, whether it be an extended weekend or a lengthy vacation stay.'' --Midwest Book Review Travel Bookshelf |
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By Robert Landon
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What will your Florence Encounter Be?
Following the exciting Renaissance narrative in the canvases of the Uffizi
Purchasing hand-crafted designs from an Oltrarno artisan
Joining the beautiful people for an after-dinner constitutional in Piazza della Signoria
Regretting that Michelangelo’s David isn’t a live and single man
Taking in Brunelleschi’s red-tile dazzler, the Duomo, from your room with a view
Finding your inner food snob as you savor a velvety Chianina bistecca
Discover Twice The City In Half The Time
Full-color pull-out map and detailed neighborhood maps for easy navigation
Our discerning author recommends the very best sights, restaurants, shops and entertainment
Unique itineraries and highlights help navigate the finer arts of food and fashion in Florence
Local artists and impresarios introduce you to the city’s la dolce vita (sweet life)
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By Virginia Maxwell
Lonely Planet
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“Home to some of the world’s most recognizable tourist icons, Tuscany has been enticing visitors with its cooking and culture ever since the Etruscans arrived over two millennia ago.” – Virginia Maxwell, Lonely Planet Writer
Our Promise
You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is.
Inside This Book…
2 expert authors
29 driving tours and itineraries
42 Renaissance masterpieces
4000 years of art and architecture
Eat & Drink Like a Local feature
In-depth background
Pull-out city map
Feature coverage of top sights
Comprehensive planning tools
At-a-glance practical info
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