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Description: Italy is a country for the senses and is best enjoyed on foot: a good walk allows you to taste more Italian food! Italian cities and towns are ideal for the pedestrian and this guide offers routes around the most charming of them, complete with notes on the many historic features you'll encounter. There are also directions for over 50 day-walks through beautiful countryside: rolling Tuscan hills, alpine valleys, dramatic Sardinian gorges, and turquoise Cinque Terre seascapes, to name a few.

Contents: The Countryside: Heart of Tuscany * The Cinque Terre * Lake Como * Gran Paradiso * Umbrian Hilltowns * The Amalfi Coast * Dolomites * Sardinian Wilds * The Maiella * Temples of Sicily * Chianti. The Cities: Rome * Venice * Florence * Naples * Bologna * Perugia Siena * Padua * Verona * Palermo * Genoa * Pisa * Ravenna * Bergamo * Turin * Ravenna * Taormina * Syracuse * Cagliari. Includes glossary & index.