The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto

by Rough Guides, Jonathan Buckley

The Rough Guide to Venice & Veneto is your definitive handbook to this splendour-aching European City. From the water-lapped palaces along the Canal Grande to the buzzing Rialto market, the full-colour section introduces all of the regions highlights. With more cultural background than any other guide, you’ll find detailed accounts of all Venice’s monuments and museums, from San Marco to the far-flung islands and practical coverage of Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso, and a host of other Veneto towns and sights. Opinionated reviews of all the best places to eat, drink and stay in every price range. The guide also takes a detailed look at the region’s history, culture, events, painting and architecture and comes complete with maps and plans for every area.

Genres: Travel, Italy, Nonfiction, Italian Literature

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

This didn't float my boat. (See what I did there? Venice... boats...) The travel tips and some of the Italian vocabulary helped me, but this guide better serves as a reference for history connoisseurs than for casual tourists. Forgive me, book lovers, but I found the Internet more useful, especially a few excellent smartphone apps.

[Sally Edsall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really comprehensive

[Jack · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book lacks useful practical information. For example, the section on the Basilica of Saint Mark devotes several pages to the history of the place but doesn't mention that if you are a woman you need to buy shawls to cover your legs and shoulders. Not a big deal, but this is repeated throughout the book and my partner and I kept encountering situations where we thought 'why on Earth didn't the guide book mention this?'

Carrying and looking at the book became a waste of time and energy. This a shame as previous Rough Guides for other places have been very good.

[Charlie' (MyBooksAreCorrupted) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have already been to Venice once, but the holiday was all planned for me. So I really want to go back again, and this book really helped me to plan the holiday for myself. It told me some of the best places to go, as well as the history of Venice and the attractions.

[Leila · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining with good information. I did like the maps and all of the information on accommodation and eateries but I would have preferred something more than historical information regarding the attractions. For me this was a good start but I want to do more research.

[Alohatiki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had the best maps of the guidebooks I looked at.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favorite part of this guide book is the souvenir guide!

[Stephen Chase · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun and entertaining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lamadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I mostly picked this one because of the large amount of information on the Veneto region, and not just Venice like most of the other brands. It even included Asolo, which I wanted to visit.