- Taschenbuch: 1184 Seiten
- Verlag: Rough Guides; Auflage: 5 Updated (4. Juni 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1858286921
- ISBN-13: 978-1858286921
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 13 x 3,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.679.133 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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When listing the virtues of the Rough Guide series--including The Rough Guide to Italy--it is difficult to know where to begin. Primarily, of course, their greatest value lies in the comprehensive coverage of a given region, and the updated edition of The Rough Guide to Italy is a classic example of this excellent all-inclusiveness, with over 1000 tightly-packed pages of information, maps and photos. Then, of course, there is the famous Rough Guide accessibility: intelligently laid-out indices make finding the desired destination or sight (whether it's Michelangelo's David in Florence's Academia or the erotic frescoes in Pompeii) the easiest thing imaginable. But what the Guides are really famous for (and thankfully this new Italian guide has in abundance) is their wonderfully unstuffy and cutting-edge attitude to their subject countries. It is, in fact, this intelligent edge that has most of their rivals looking musty and old-fashioned.
Anyone wishing to sample the style of Rough Guide Italy could do no better than to turn to the section on Rome, where a perfectly judged introduction to the city's history is balanced by highly useful off-the-cuff information such as the difficulty of getting anywhere very fast in the Eternal City. It's this frankness that is less often found in other guides, and this (along with the impeccable scholarship and a diamond-sharp evocation of a sense of place) makes this the one Italian guide you will need. Some might claim that illustrations and photos are rather sidelined in order to accommodate more text, but that's precisely the idea: these are, above all, guides to help you find your way around Italy (or wherever) with the greatest possible ease. If you want masses of colour photographs--why not go and take them yourself? --Barry Forshaw
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The most complete handbook on one of Europe's most captivating countries. Includes expert accounts of every type of attraction, from Mantua's Palazzo Ducale to the rocky coves of the Tyrrhenian coast. Up to the minute recommendations of the best places to eat, drink and stay, to suit all budgets. Illuminating coverage of the Italian history, art, architecture, culture and customs. Practical tips on activities ranging from wine-tasting in Umbria to hiking the Dolomites.
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12. Februar 2002
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Now, a lot of people want their guidebooks to be long lists of hotels plus a list of the authors' idea of the most important places. If, however, you don't plan your itinerary ahead, so you always seem to end up at the hostel cause that's the only open place left, accomadation listings are less important. Let's Go usually has more extensive budget sleeps, but neither it nor Lonely Planet can compare for the coverage of out of the way places. Some people want a guidebook with lots of pictures to show them where they want to go. Rough Guides you have to read, and you have to read them carefully. There's a certain skill involved, because they don't show a strong ranking of "desirableness," and they don't shy from the less-perfect sides of what is, after all, a real, contemporary country, not a museum. The upside (and it's a big upside) is that you can find places that never make it into the other books. I was in Italy last summer, and I spent days in Gubbio (in Umbria), and Peschici (in Puglia). When I'd talk to people in hostels later on in big towns, they would never have heard of the places I'd loved, because they weren't mentioned in their guidebooks. There is so much more to Italy that what you can get out of an Insight Guide or a Let's Go, and you owe it to yourself to find some of it. Sure, it's heavy, and some of the maps are inferior, but there are a lot of them, and they're for places Let's Go has never seen.
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Organization problems hurt this otherwise good series
20. Juni 2004
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Like other reviewers, I found that the Rough Guides had both positive and negative aspects, overall making it a book that I would recommend, but only with another guide to balance it out. I found the detailed write-ups of indivdiual cities helpful--there's no skimping on everything you need for a well-informed orientation. You get more of that here than in any other guide out there, with the possible exception of the text-exclusive Blue Guides. The lack of pictures doesn't bother me; most of those tourist, photo-op shots are silly and misleading anyway and they just expand a book's girth. The Rough Guides are already big and heavy to carry without tons of useless pictures. In using RG during a four-month stay in France and Italy, I found that the most troublesome issue for me was simply the organization--it's not the type of guide you can pull out and immediately go to clearly marked sections and subsections to find info. This is especially a hinderance when looking through a city's transportation information. You have to wade through paragraphs to find the information buried somewhere in the middle. That might be ok if you have hours to pick though every sentence in the section on Rome, but if you're traveling quickly, or changing plans and need the info now--good luck. A restructuring of the format to more distinctly separate and highlight areas of information would do wonders for this series and would instantly make it so much better. Lonely Planet actually does this much more successfully. The directions on how to get to a place are also sometimes uneccessarily difficult. Maps are a bit small and difficult to read, too. Overall it is a good guide that is less user-friendly than it could be. Use it along with something else.
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"It's a "rough" guide, no doubt about that...
18. September 2001
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I picked up this Rough Guide to Italy for a brief trip to Umbria and Lazio because my local shop sold out of the Let's Go equivalent.
It annoyed me intensely.
Firstly, it is unreasonably negative in tone throughout - someone who hadn't been there could be forgiven for thinking Italy is a crummy place with only a few mouldy monuments and the odd fresco to recommend it, which as a general impression is criminally wrong, and it's astounding that a guidebook should set out to give it. P>Secondly, Some of the maps aren't accurate and don't appear to have been checked or proof read. Throwaway lines such as "[the tourist office has] lots of reasonable but characterless rooms on their books and appartments to rent" on the basis of my anecdotal evidence simply aren't fair -
Thirdly it's dreadfully turgid. Cheeky charm in a guide of this sort is obligatory these days, but the writing style is frequently leaden. Witness the following insight, which is typically put: "Of all Italy's historic cities, it's perhaps Rome which exerts the most compelling fascination." Good grief.
Plus points - the "contexts" section, which overviews art, architecture, history, and the political and social set-up in italy (you know, the mafia, camorra and all that good stuff!), is a good read. There are plenty of maps of little places, too, but they're not collosally accurate. There are a few fairly uninteresting colour pics, but for my money they could have been left out and a buck shaved off the cover price.
There must be better guides to Italy than this.
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