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Insight Pocket Guides: ideal itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package.

Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do and see in the Italian Lakes and Verona, from top attractions like Verona's Roman arena, to hidden gems, including Santa Caterina del Sasso.

· Compact, concise, and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move companion when you're exploring the Italian Lakes and Verona
· Covers Top Ten Attractions, including Sirmione and Bellagio and Perfect Day itinerary suggestions
· Offers an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture
· Contains an invaluable pull-out map, and essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around
· Inspirational colour photography throughout
· Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

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Travel

Italy

My Last Duchess

Europe

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Publié par	Apa Publications
Date de parution	01 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781789193367
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0291€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

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How To Use This E-Book

Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Italian Lakes & Verona, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Italian Lakes & Verona, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Italian Lakes & Verona are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Italian Lakes & Verona. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
© 2019 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

Table of Contents
The Italian Lakes & Verona’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Day in the Italian Lakes
Introduction
Villas, gardens and castles
A playground for the rich and famous
Historic cities
Which lake?
Escaping the crowds
A Brief History
Early settlers
Huns, Goths and Lombards
Era of the communes
The great dynasties
Foreign intervention
20th century and beyond
Berlusconi’s rise, fall and rise again?
Historical landmarks
Where To Go
Lake Maggiore
Stresa and the Golfo Borromeo
Monte Mottarone
Verbania
Southern Lake Maggiore
Northern Lake Maggiore
Lake Como
Como Town
Ramo di Como
Centro Lago
Ramo di Colico
Lake Garda
The southern shores
The western shore
Garda Trentino
The eastern shore
Lesser lakes
Lake Orta
Varese and its lake
Lake Iseo
Lombard cities
Bergamo
Piazza Vecchia
Piazza del Duomo
Brescia
Piazza della Loggia
Piazza Paolo VI
Roman Ruins and Santa Giulia Museo della Città
Cremona
Mantua
Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Broletto and Piazza delle Erbe
Basilica di Sant’Andrea
Palazzo Tè
Verona
Piazza Brà and the Arena
Piazza delle Erbe
Piazza dei Signori and Arche Scaligere
La Casa di Giulietta
Churches and Roman Theatre
Castelvecchio and San Zeno Maggiore
What To Do
Sports and outdoor activities
Watersports
Hiking, climbing and cable cars
Cycling and mountain biking
Golf
Spectator sports
Other sports
Entertainment
Aperitivi
Shopping
Fashions
Shopping outlets
Markets
Food and wine
Children’s lakes
Calendar of events
Eating Out
Where to eat
What to eat
Antipasti
Il Primo
Il Secondo
What to drink
Reading the Menu
To help you order…
Restaurants
Lake Maggiore
Borromeo Islands
Cannobio
Mergozzo
Pallanza
Stresa
Lake Como
Bellagio
Brunate
Como
Isola Comancina
Varenna
Lake Garda
Desenzano del Garda
Gargnano
Moniga del Garda
Riva del Garda
Sirmione
Torri del Benaco
Lake Orta – Orta San Giulio
Cities
Bergamo
Brescia and Province
Varese
Verona
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation
Airports
B
Bicycle hire
Budgeting for your trip
C
Camping
Car hire
Climate
Clothing
Crime and safety
D
Disabled travellers
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and consulates
Emergencies
G
Getting there
Guides and tours
H
Health and medical care
L
Language
LGBTQ travellers
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening hours
P
Police
Post offices
Public holidays
R
Religion
S
Smoking
T
Telephones
Time zones
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist information
Transport
V
Visa and entry requirements
W
Websites and internet access
Y
Youth hostels
Recommended Hotels
Lake Maggiore
Borromeo Islands
Cannero Riviera
Cannobio
Luino
Stresa
Lake Como
Argegno
Bellagio
Cadenabbia di Griante
Cernobbio
San Fedele D’Intelvi
Sotto il Monte
Varenna
Lake Garda
Gardone Riviera
Gargnano
Riva del Garda
Sirmione
Torri del Benaco
Lake Iseo
Lake Orta
Orta San Giulio
Pettenasco
City hotels
Bergamo
Verona

The Italian Lakes & Verona’s Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction #1
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Malcesine
The picturesque fishing village lies at the foot of Monte Baldo. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #2
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Santa Caterina del Sasso
This enchanting church convent clings to a cliff face above Lake Maggiore. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #3
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Villa del Balbianello
Built in 1787 for an eccentric cardinal, it embodies the effortless style and beauty of the region. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #4
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Villa Carlotta
Famed for its sumptuous gardens, it sits on Lake Como’s western shore. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #5
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Sirmione
With a dramatic 13th-century castle, it is one of Lake Garda’s most visited resorts. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #6
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Verona’s Roman Arena
Once the scene of gladiatorial combat, it now stages operatic extravaganzas. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #7
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The Borromeo Islands
A suitably grandiose home for a flock of peacocks. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #8
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Villa Taranto
Its botanical gardens are planted with around 20,000 different species of trees, shrubs and flowers. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #9
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Bergamo’s Città Alta
Packed with magnificent medieval and Renaissance monuments. For more information, click here.

Top Attraction #10
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Bellagio
The ‘pearl of Lake Como’ enjoys unrivalled panoramic mountain views. For more information, click here.

A Perfect Day in the Italian Lakes

8.00am

Breakfast
Take breakfast in your hotel or join the locals with a cappuccino and cornetto (croissant) in a lakeview café.

10.00am

Baroque extravaganza
Head for Stresa’s ferry station at Piazza Marconi, buy a ticket that includes admission to the island sights and hop on one of the regular ferries going north to Ancona. Alight at the first stop, Isola Bella, the Borromean princes’ summer residence. Explore the sumptuously decorated Palazzo Borromeo, and the beguiling, ship-shaped terraces of gardens, complete with statues and peacocks.

11.30am

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