Authors:Dario Castagno, Robert Rodi,
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: tour, guide, chianti, confessions, tuscany, day
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0762744561
ISBN-13: 9780762744565

A charming, heartfelt, and often humorous insider’s view of the Tuscan people, culture, and landscape. Readers who enjoyed Too Much Tuscan Sun will welcome this second book, which includes even more episodes from the author’s life growing up as a Chiantigiano.

Authors:Dario Castagno, Robert Rodi,
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Keywords: guide, insiders, guides, tour, chianti, sun, confessions, tuscan
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0762736704
ISBN-13: 9780762736706

Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition.Before this subgenre exhausts itself, it’s only fair that we hear the other side of the story-that of a native Tuscan and of dozens of Americans who have stormed through his life and homeland, determined to find in it whatever they are looking for, wheth

Authors:Touring Club Italiano, Touring Club of Italy,
Publisher: Touring Club of Italy
Keywords: heritage, guide, chianti, guides, countryside, region, city, florence, complete, renaissance, surrounding
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1999-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 8836515185
ISBN-13: 9788836515189

Touring Club of Italy has created this indispensable guide for touring Florence, the capital of the Renaissance and the cradle of Western civilization. The text is accompanied by an array of maps and illustrations, plus hints and addresses’