Blue Guide Southern Italy

Blue Guide Southern Italy

by Paul Blanchard
Blue Guide Southern Italy

Blue Guide Southern Italy

by Paul Blanchard

Paperback(11th Revised ed.)

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Overview

SPECIAL REPRINT EDITION: Blue Guide Southern Italy 2007, OF WHICH THIS IS A REPRINT. Southern Italy is a major visitor destination with a wealth of sights on offer: the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the island of Capri, the wild scenery of the Abruzzo, beautiful villages of the Ionian coast, Romanesque architecture in Puglia, and of course Naples and the Amalfi Coast. The author is long-time Blue Guides author and Italy resident Paul Blanchard, an experienced tour guide, who reveals not only the major attractions, explained and set in context, but also uncovers lesser-known sights. He has been supported by the classicists and art historians of the Blue Guides editorial board with the result that Blue Guide Southern Italy, with its wealth of cultural detail and useful advice on hotels and restaurants, provides all the information that the independent traveller needs.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781905131181
Publisher: Blue Guides Limited of London
Publication date: 03/24/2019
Series: Blue Guides (Norton)
Edition description: 11th Revised ed.
Pages: 586
Sales rank: 694,134
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Paul Blanchard has written Blue Guide Northern Italy and Blue Guide Southern Italy. Born in Amsterdam, New York, he has lived in Italy for more than thirty years.

Table of Contents


Historical sketch     9
The Guide
Naples     29
Campania     135
The Phlegraean fields     135
The Capuan plain     149
Caserta     154
Mount Vesuvius     160
Pompeii     168
Herculaneum     196
The Vesuvian shore     210
Capri, Ischia and Procida     214
The Amalfi coast     237
Salerno and Benevento     259
Paestum and the Cilento     271
Basilicata     291
Melfi and environs     292
Matera     299
Southern Basilicata     306
Ancient Lucania     309
Calabria     319
The Tyrrhenian coast to Paola     320
The Coscile and Crati valleys     323
Crotone     327
Cosenza and environs     331
La Sila     333
Vibo Valentia     343
Tropea and environs     344
Palmi and the Aspromonte foothills     349
Reggio Calabria     353
Aspromonte     357
The southern Ionian coast     359
Abruzzo & Molise     369
Pescara     371
Chieti     373
Lanciano and environs     377
Termoli and Larino     387
Southern Molise     388
Western Molise     390
Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo     397
Sulmona     398
Celano     401
L'Aquila     406
The Gran Sasso d'Italia     414
Teramo and environs     417
Puglia     427
Foggia and the Gargano     427
The Tremiti islands     434
Terra di Ban     439
Bari     451
South of Bari     461
Massafra     473
The Murge     475
Taranto     480
The Adriatic coast to Ostuni     484
Brindisi     495
Lecce     501
Manduria and environs     509
The Salentine peninsula     511
Gallipoli and environs     518
Practical information     527
Food and drink     536
Glossary of special terms     552
Rulers of Naples     561
Index     564
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