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Florence through the eyes of an Art Historian,
September 23, 2011 Art History Professor (The wonderful Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Guide Florence (Tenth Edition) (Blue Guides) (Paperback)
I must confess that some of the reviews for the Blue Guides leave me a bit puzzled. If you know what you are in for, this is one amazing book.
To begin with, I suppose that there are two different kinds of guides: Those that help you plan your trip, and those that will aid you during your trip. Some try to do both and do so with some level of proficiency. Few do both really well. Some do one really well.
My go-to guides for those that will help me plan my trips are the Eyewitness Guides. My first trip to Rome was as a fourth-year PhD student in 2005. That Rome (Eyewitness Travel Guides) has gone back with me on each subsequent trip. It's concise, has decent pictures, user friendly maps. It would be fine for, say, the kind of person who goes into the Louvre in Paris and wants to see only the Venus de Milo, Leonardo's Mona Lisa, and the Hellenistic Winged Victory.
However, if you are the kind of traveler who wants to find the *other* great stuff in the...Read more
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