Insight Guides: Florence Step By Step

Description

"Step by Step Florence" brings you the best of this beautiful and historic Italian city through a selection of walks and tours, encompassing all of the city's must-see sights and complemented by beautiful full-colour photography and a wealth of practical information, all in a compact package. It features: recommended tours, suggesting the book's best tours whatever your interests - world-class art, shopping, viewpoints and Medici villas, amongst others. It offers an overview, offering Insight's trademark focus on Florence's growth, geography and inhabitants, plus the lowdown on food and drink, shopping, entertainment and local history. It includes 15 Walks and Tours, each with clear, easy-to-follow maps and hand-picked places to eat and drinken route. This tempting selection of self-guided explorations takes you from the Duomo, one of the largest cathedrals in the world, and the Uffizi, housing the greatest collection of Italian Renaissance art, to Piazza San Marco and the Boboli Garden, with excursions to the Tuscan hill towns of San Gimignano and Siena, amongst others.
A Directory incorporates a user-friendly, fact-packed A to Z of practical information, plus our select hotel, restaurant and nightlife listings direct you to the city's most authentic venues, full of local flavour.