| LifeinItaly.com - Fashion, Travel, News and More. | |  | Travel Books to Umbria | Home » » Italian Country Hideaways: Vacationing in Tuscany and Umbria's Most Unforgettable Private Villas, Castles, and Estates | | | | | | | Description: | | Taking you off the beaten path of tourist Italy, "Italian Country Hideaways" invites you to the most unforgettable private villas, castles, fortresses, and farmhouses-places in which you can actually stay. An introduction to each region's local food and wine, sites, festivals, and other points of interest is followed by a selection of unique estates memorable for their meals, dcor, architecture, grounds, and history. Opening up their ancestral homes, the owners of these preserved and fully functional estates now offer you a key to the hidden splendors of the Italian countryside. A detailed appendix provides all the practical information you'll need for planning your visits, including complete contact information, prices, amenities, and dates of availability, plus helpful facts and advice on transportation, seasonal considerations, and making reservations. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780789302601
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Kelley Hurst | | Hardcover:
| 144 pages | | Publisher:
| Universe | | Publication Date:
| July 30, 1999 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0789302608 | | Package Length:
| 9.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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Ready to go!Nov 25, 2008
Beautiful book that beckons me to Italy. Love having it on coffee table, never tire of browsing through it.
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Beautiful book!Mar 26, 2006
This was such a fun book to read and the photography is absolutely beautiful! Italy is much more fun off the beaten path anyway...and I'm so glad to see more and more books that take the traveler to the unknown places!
--Vicki Landes, author of "Europe for the Senses - A Photographic Journal"
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Behind Italy's CurtainMay 01, 2005
A beautiful book that takes travelers to places in Italy that are not generally publicized. An excellent travel guide.
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Seeing the romantic heart of this beautiful country.Jul 24, 2001
An excellent guide that takes you off the beaten tourist trap path. This warm and wonderful book invites you to the most unforgettable private villas, castles, fortresses, and farmhouses-places most of which you can actually stay. This book also is a good introduction to each region's local food and wine, sites, festivals, and other points of interest. The book continues to a selection of unique estates memorable that are known for their meals, architecture, grounds, and history. Opening this book is like the owners of these preserved and fully functional estates opening up their ancestral homes many of whom actually do and this book shows you how. The book further lays a full featured and detailed appendix providing all the practical information you'll need for planning your visits, including complete contact information, prices, amenities, and dates of availability, plus helpful facts and advice on transportation, seasonal considerations, and making reservations. Ever think of traveling to Italy and seeing the romantic heart of this beautiful country. This is the book you will need. ...
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Plan your trip around this bookDec 22, 2000
This is not only a beautiful book, with gorgeous pictures of Tuscany's castles and countryside, but also provides an excellent service by relaying contact information for all of the castles profiled in the book. My husband and I stayed at Castello di Ripa D'orcia this past fall and it was the highlight of our Italy vacation. We chose the castle as our base since the pictures were so magnificent--and we were not disappointed. It was well off the beaten path and it was the only time during our vacation that we were exposed to a real slice of Italy without the onslaught of tour buses that seemed to invade many of the other small villages in the area. If you are planning a trip to Italy, I highly recommend that you comb through this book and choose one of the country estates to stay in. It will make your trip much more memorable and enjoyable.
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