Blue Guide Southern Italy (Eleventh Edition) (Blue Guides)

A guide book should

1. review hotels, with phone numbers, email, website, closing seasons, price, and comments on quality;

2. review restaurants, with cuisine, price, phone numbers, email, website, and closing times and days;

3. have maps of towns with detailed and labeled streets (including one-way), marked with recommended hotels, restaurants, parking, and sites;

4. good regional maps for driving;

5. drawn or photographed areas for orientation;

6. printed plans of museums (with opening times and days) and identifying diagrams of detailed art works;

7. religious notes;

8. and detailed discussion of the picturesque, the beautiful, the sublime - in nature and the arts - for the plucky, intelligent, curious, willing-to-learn, urbane, cosmopolitan traveler, done with a sense of history.

The reader of this review should know that for me #8 outweighs all the others put...Read more