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Summary: A feast for your Eyes
Review: Fodor's Exploring Italy is a beautiful guide book. I have several others and this one is a delight to browse through. I am planning a trip to Italy and this helps with my itinerary. The numerous colored photographs are one reason I purchased it.The only downside is it's lack of depth in its accomodations and restaurant reviews. But for a purely visual guidebook, this is the one!
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Summary: Disappointing choice
Review: I've used several different brands of travel guides in Europe, the U.S. and Asia and have always found the Fodor's offerings to be comprehensive and useful. That is the reason I'm so disappointed in this book. As a travel guide it is not inexpensive but it does not contain such basic information as lodging options near major train stations, suggestions for low cost lodging away from major tourist haunts, the quirky eating options I've always found in Fodor's other books, or the standard opening times for major sites. For example, Vatican City sites are not listed except in the most superficial way. And, how jaded a traveler must you be to consider St. Peter's a plain church with no important art, as this writer describes it? Michelangelo's Pieta is there! They should have spent less on glossy color photos and more on useful information.If you're going to Italy get a different book.
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