Lonely Planet Best Road Trips Italy

by Duncan Garwood

Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Italy's Best Road Trips. This trusted travel companion features 40 amazing drives, from 3-day escapes to 3-week adventures. Feel inspired by the Tuscan landscape, gaze across the Amalfi Coast and take in the majesty of the Dolomites. Get to Italy, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet's Italy's Best Road Trips : Itineraries for classic road trips plus other lesser-known drives with expert advice to pick the routes that suit your interests and needs
Full-colour route maps - easy-to-read, detailed directions
Detours - delightful diversions to see Italy's highlights along the way Link Your Trip - cruise from one driving route to the next Insider tips - get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads
Stretch Your Legs - the best things to do outside the car Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Lavish colour photography provides inspiration throughout Covers Rome, Venice, Pompeii, Dolomites, Cinque Terre, Florence, Amalfi Coast, Lake Como, Valle d'Aosta, Tuscany, Milan, Piedmont, Italian Riviera, Abruzzo, Umbria, Emilia-Romagna, Naples, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily, and more

The Perfect Lonely Planet's Italy's Best Road Trips is perfect for exploring Italy via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning an Italy trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's Italy , our most comprehensive guide to Italy, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. About Lonely Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.'  New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.'  Fairfax Media (Australia)

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Italy

248 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2013

Reviews

[Wendelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful collection of possible routes that highlights lesser known gems of spots among tourists, and provides contiguous routes that cover them

[Jeff Beardsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

My family and I are long-time travelers around the globe, and have developed definite opinions of travel guides over the years. Along with planning travel over the internet, we've basically settled on two different guides to take with us as we go. The Eyewitness Travel Guides are my preference for advanced planning and reading on a particular destination. The Lonely Planet Guides are perfect for our travels while we are on the road. Lonely Planet fills in many of the details that Eyewitness leaves off the pages of their travel guides. Eyewitness gives us the visual for where we are heading, Lonely Planet gives us the filler. Between the two, we've settled on a routine that has suited us well for our travel purposes. Highly recommended!

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

This travel guide is a road trip guide. It provides information and details specific to areas that are more difficult to get to -- less popular and smaller cities and towns -- that more general guides omit. It assumes a road trip where you are driving.

It includes a generous number of suggested road trips, with links where you can venture onto another suggested route. They are arranged by regions and themes: culinary, wine, historic sites, scenery, etc. There are details and tips specific to driving in Italy and her cities.

It does not provide comprehensive details on any of the major cities, so if you plan to spend time in one of the usual tourist stops, you likely would want additionally a more traditional guide book.

I think this guide book does a very good job of filling in the spaces that are often blank or underserved by the more typical ones.

[Catherine Woodman · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading through this book, and xeroxed the pages that went through Piedmont, which is the next place we are going in Italy. We have done almost no road travel in Italy, and this definitely made me excited to be doing so this fall, and I would get the book out from the library again to help plan a trip to another region in the future.
I was particularly intrigued by trips to places that are not well known for tourism, and even some that start in places you have been or heard of and go from there--the Piero della Francesca Trail, which was advocated by Aldous Huxley in 1925, follows the Renaissance painter's footsteps--and his paintings--is on my To Do list once I retire and am able to travel a bit more leisurely than seems possible right now.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nicely laid out, clear, concise, many options for driving trips in n Italy, with lots of practical tips as well. Lots of photography to help you decide what is most appealing to you. Each trip has a little addendum of places to sleep and eat along the way. Unlike the perhaps too comprehensive big LP guides, this one nicely distills what you need to choose a driving route in Italy. Well done