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The Heritage Guide Naples: The City and Its Famous Bay, Capri, Sorrento, Ischia, and the Amalfi Coast Down to Salerno (Heritage Guides)
by Touring Club Italiano, Touring Club of Italy

Amazon Reader's Review: "Another outstanding volume in this series. It is chock full of information. The book is accurate and up to date on major subjects including History, Culture, Sites and Attractions. The maps are superb. It is a must for all travellers who, like myself, are interested in the history of the destination as well as its must see sites. I highly recommend this book to all prospective travellers to Naples and vicinity."

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Fodor's Naples, Capri and the Amalfi Coast: The Guide for All Budgets (Fodor's Naples, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast)
by Robert I. C. Fisher (Editor), Fodors (Editor)

No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in Naples, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's Naples, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice -- from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Your personal supply of Post-it? flags makes it easy to mark your favorite listings. Plus, web links, costs, and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.

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Blue Guide: Southern Italy: South of Rome to Calabria
by Paul Blanchard

This guide covers seven stunning regions of Italy from Lazio, the section south of Rome, down to Calabria. Also included is comprehensive information on Naples and the islands of southern Italy--Capri, Ischia, and Procida. Southern Italy offers a spectacular array of sites, including Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Vesuvius. Everything from art and architecture to flora and fauna is covered in this detailed and indispensable guide.

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North of Naples, South of Rome
by Paolo Tullio, Susan Morley (Illustrator)

Tullio's opinionated, convivial, sometimes irreverent guide to Italy and the Italians, the basis for a six-part PBS television series, takes us down byways rarely glimpsed by tourists. Though he grew up in England and lives in Ireland, he and his Irish wife visit Italy every year, especially his picturesque native village of Gallinaro, situated amid Apennine peaks southeast of Rome in the Comino Valley, the centerpiece of this leisurely travelogue. Tullio heedlessly peppers his narrative with brash generalizations, some commonplace, many questionable: "Italian men love to cook"; "Italians... are animated, extrovert and, above all, extreme"; "There is a deep vein of insecurity running through Italian life, a racial memory of a history of constant flux." His Italy is at once reassuringly familiar and surprisingly new. Hunting, we learn, is pervasive; over half of adult males have guns; and Italians eat songbirds. Furthermore, he asserts, "most Italians do not speak good Italian," which to them is a second language, the first being their regional dialect. A knowledgeable guide, Tullio savors the chaos of Naples; acts as a judge in a wine competition; serves up grass-roots gastronomical tips on how to make such staples as pasta, sausage and liqueur; and visits the cottage where his father, an Italian soldier, hid from the Germans for five months in 1943-1944, after Italy broke with the Axis powers. His weightier observations deal with the dominance of local politics over Rome, the current anticorruption campaign and the diminishing hold of the church on secular life. Evocative sketches by his wife, artist Susan Morley, neatly complement this serendipitous tour.

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Eyewitness Travel Guide to Naples & Pompeii & Sorrento Peninsula/Amalfi Coast
Over 600 color photos
240 pages

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