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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany | 
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| Author: James Bentley
Creator: Hugh Palmer
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 16602
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 10 x 0.9
ISBN: 050001664X
Dewey Decimal Number: 945.500222
EAN: 9780500016640
ASIN: 050001664X
Publication Date: September 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: hardcover with dj. clean unmarked text. hardcover and binding strong. dj clean, some edgewear.
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Amazon.com Review
With the recent popularity of such notable books as Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Elizabeth Romer's The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley, a legion of new Italia fans are finding out what many already know: the charm of Tuscany cannot be denied. In The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany, author James Bentley and photographer Hugh Palmer offer a decidedly unique view of this remarkable region. Focusing on thirty-six villages and towns from all over Tuscany--chosen for "both their intrinsic beauty and for the part they have played in Tuscan history and culture"--the gorgeous full-color photographs, accompanied by superb accounts of each village, truly "bring the region to life, evoking the richness of architecture and landscape, and bringing out the charm of the Tuscan people." The final chapter is devoted to useful travel information, including passages on hotels and restaurants, market days and festivals, as well as a select bibliography and detailed map of the region. As beautiful as it is informative and entertaining, The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany is "the perfect visual tribute to the timeless beauty of these small towns and villages."
Product Description
Bentley highlights 37 villages and towns, both for their intrinsic beauty and for the part they have played in Tuscan history and culture. Page after page of Palmer's magnificent color photos evoke the beauty of the land. Specially compiled listings of hotels, restaurants, and festivals complete the tribute to Tuscany and its villages.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
Outstanding Book to Dream About or Remember Tuscany! December 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany is a wonderful resource for planning a trip or very fondly remembering one! Fantastic pictures capture the essence of 36 villages there, along with great, accurate descriptions. Excellent coffee table book, too. Also, a very special gift book. It will leave you yearning to return to Tuscany to explore more!!
beautiful villages of tuscany May 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i orignially purchased this book as a resource for a paper i was doing on tuscany, but when i received it and began to browse through it, i sat down and read the entire thing from cover to cover. the photography was magnificent; the information was just the right amount without going on and on; the entire product was stunning. i wanted to run to the internet and book the next flight to tuscany!
 Oh no, not another Tuscan picture book! February 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes, the photos are nice, but how many coffee table books with pretty Tuscan villages, cypress trees, and silvery olive leaves shimmering in the wind do we need?
Someone who reviewed this book suggested bringing it along on a Tuscan trip; if you put this large and heavy book in your luggage, you will have to leave the toothpaste, underwear, and a number of other things at home, particularly now that some airlines are apparently toying with the notion of lowering weight allowances and charging for the excess.
The text in most instances is not particularly helpful. There are quite a few books on Tuscany that do a much better job. And I was truly surprised to see the town of San Quirico d'Orcia included in the list of "most beautiful villages". I happen to know San Quirico and because it is off the usual beaten tourist path, it retains an "Italianness" that has been lost by, for example, Greve in Chianti, where one would be hard-pressed to find an Italian in that town's lovely main square on a Saturday afternoon. But San Quirico could never be called "beautiful", by any stretch of the imagination.
Despite my reservations about this book, it would probably be a welcome present for a friend who has recently returned from the grand tour of Tuscany and it will, at least for a while, have a prominent place on this friend's coffee table.
Tuscany January 12, 2008
Great service and beautiful pictures of Tuscany but somewhat dissapointed at the lack of an organized route map for efficient traveling to the various villages.
Wonderful for so many reasons November 17, 2007
This is the best for someone wanting to visit interesting places in Italy. It is not only well arranged and written, but it helped so much in trip planning. I highly recommend this to anyone traveling on their own to Italy.
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