Lonely Planet Italy's Best Trips

by Duncan Garwood, Brett Atkinson, Alexis Averbuck

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Discover the freedom of open roads while touring Italy with Lonely Planet's Italy's Best Trips, your passport to up-to-date advice on uniquely encountering Italy via l'auto. Featuring 38 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can weave along the precarious Amalfi Coast or relish a sunny drive in Tuscan hills, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to Italy, rent a car, and hit the road!

Inside Lonely Planet's Italy's Best Trips:



Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout

Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests

Get around easily - 46 easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions

Free, convenient pull-out Italy road map (included in print version)

Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads

Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices, Italian road signs key

Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

Useful features - including Driving Problem Buster, Detours, and Link Your Trip

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 Choice: Lonely Planet's Italy's Best Trips is perfect for exploring Italy via the road and discovering sights that are moreaccessible by car.


Planning an Italian trip sans a car? Lonely Planet's Italy guide, our most comprehensive guide to Italy is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. Looking for just Italy's highlights? Check out Discover Italy, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions.
Looking for a guide focused on a specific Italian city? Check out Lonely Planet's Rome guide, Florence & Tuscany guide, and Venice & the Veneto guide for a comprehensive look at all that these cities have to offer, or Pocket Rome, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.
There's More in Store for You:


See more of Europe's picturesque country sides and have a richer, more authentic experience by exploring Europe by car with Lonely Planet's European Best Trips guides to France and Ireland. Or start with our FREE SAMPLER 'Europe's Best Trips: 3 Amazing Road Trips,' with excerpts from each guide to help you pick which region to explore first.
Also, check out Lonely Planet's USA Best Trips guides to USA, California, New England, Southwest USA, New York & the Mid-Atlantic, Florida & the South, and The Pacific Northwest and our FREE SAMPLER 'USA's Best Trips: 7 Amazing Road Trips' for more road trip inspiration.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Paula Hardy, Duncan Garwood and Robert Landon.

About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Italy

962 pages, Kindle Edition

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