Italy (Insight Guides)
Language: English
Pages: 464
ISBN: 1780051697
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The new edition of Insight Guide Italy is a comprehensive, full-color travel guide packed with inspiration and information for you to plan a memorable trip to Italy. Whether you wish to travel back in time to Pompeii, eat truffles in Alba, spot celebrities on Lake Como, relive the Renaissance in Florence, glide in a gondola in Venice, or stroll through hilltop villages, we’ll show you how and where with our Best of Italy, lively features on history and culture, and our detailed coverage of the entire country and its sun-drenched islands.
Detailed, full-color maps help you get around, and our beautiful photographs on every page vividly capture Italy’s people and landscape.
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evil… this contagious disease”. Senators “were seized by a panic of fear, both for the public safety, lest these secret conspiracies and nocturnal gatherings contain some hidden harm or danger, and for themselves individually, lest some relatives be involved in this vice”. Problems and wrong-doers Citizens bombarded bureaucrats with complaints about the quality of life in Rome: disgraceful traffic congestion and refuse collection; escalating inflation; homosexuals getting too big for their
There are water-taxi “ranks” at main points in the city. Charges are high, and often complicated; two of the main services are Consorzio Motoscafi Venezia, tel: 041-522-2303, www.motoscafivenezia.it, and Venice Link, tel: 041-240 1715, www.venicelink.com, which also offers tours. The official rate for hiring a gondola during the day is around €80 for 40 mins and another €40 for each 20 mins thereafter, and after 7pm it’s €100, though it is advisable to haggle. A singing gondolier costs extra. A
September (www.monzanet.it). The Chianciano Biennale is a celebration of contemporary art, staged in Chianciano in Tuscany in September in uneven years (http://biennalechianciano.museodarte.org). The Centomiglia Regatta is staged on Lake Garda every September (www.centomiglia.it). The Giostra del Saracino is a medieval jousting match inspired by the Crusades, and staged on the last Sunday in August and the first Sunday in September in Arezzo in Tuscany. The Venice International Film
prime minister. 2005 Pope John Paul ll dies and is succeeded by Benedict XVI. 2009 Earthquake strikes L’Aquila. 2010 Pompeii’s House of the Gladiators collapses. State neglect is blamed. 2011 Berlusconi resigns and Mario Monti appointed as prime minister. 2012 Earthquake in Emilia-Romagna kills 16, more than 200 injured. Spain and Italy to be bailed out as euro debt crisis deepens. 2013 Pope Francis succeeds the resigning Pope Benedict XVI. Erico Letta becomes prime minister.
atmosphere in their own home. The resulting museum, housed in a delightful neo-Renaissance palazzo, is a collector’s paradise, where it is fun to try to distinguish authentic 16th-century pieces from the reproductions. In this cutting-edge city, cutting-edge art is showcased at the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC) (Via Palestro 14; www.comune.milano.it/pac; times vary depending on exhibitions). Large, experimental works of contemporary art in all its forms feature in this museum. The Museo