Reviews: Italy

While we recommend and support good book shops as the obvious place to buy a Blue Guide, we also provide functionality from these pages to order copies for immediate delivery from Amazon.  One of the advantages of this for us is that we can see the excellent rankings and feedback from readers that our titles receive, in itself rewarding for our authors, editors and production team, who put an enormous amount of work into publishing “the best-researched, best presented guide books in the English language”. Here are some recent comments.

Blue Guide Trentino & the South Tyrol

Blue Guide Trentino & the South Tyrol

Nice and small and light enough to pack easily

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Reviewed by Brian M Biggs
Format: Paperback

A part of Italy the regular guide-books don’t really spend any time with. Nice and small and light enough to pack easily. Not to mention the history of the region, as well as side-trips to smaller towns. Loved the book, loved the trip.

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Blue Guide Sicily

Blue Guide Sicily

useful research book

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Reviewed by Kahanamoku “Kahanamoku”
Format: Paperback

One of the best books I have found for information on Sicily. If you want pretty pics go elsewhere.. this is really great on the information side. A much better format for me than DK.

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Blue Guide Rome

Blue Guide Rome

Not for the superficial or uninitiated

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Reviewed by John D. Wynn
Format: Paperback

The Blue Guides are uniformly outstanding, but you have to know what you are getting: detailed descriptions of art and architecture with myriad discussions of dates and names and places and little background for the less initiated. This is not for the casual reader with a superficial knowledge of history and little interest in every duke, lord, prince and princeling, architect, architect’s assistant, architect’s mentor or mid-career vs later-career predilection. It’s a dense, heavy book to lug around, and the extra effort is amply rewarded – if this is the kind of detail that you like.

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Blue Guide Venice

Blue Guide Venice

Essential guide for serious lovers of Venice

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Reviewed by Venetia
Format: Paperback

Not a book for those seeking superficial information or brief summaries of the major sights, but an excellent guide for anyone with a serious interest in Venice’s art and architecture and who wishes to acquire an intimate knowledge of the city. The maps are detailed and the walks included are also first rate, opening up hidden corners that might otherwise be overlooked. Highly recommended.

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Blue Guide Venice

Blue Guide Venice

A great guide and interesting to read

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Reviewed by Margaret R. Snowdon
Format: Paperback

I searched so many guide books on Venice before I finally chose Blue Guide Venice – I found it helpful and most informative–written in a way that held the interest. I would recommend it to anyone.

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