Fodor's Escape to Tuscany, 2nd Edition (Fodor's Escape Guides, 2) - Hardcover

Candice Gianetti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679008462 ISBN 13: 9780679008460

Publisher: Fodor's Travel, 2001

Synopsis

Fodor's Escape to Tuscany will inspire and guide you as you plan your Tuscan getaway. Harvest grapes for wine and rest in volcanic springs or hike in the marble mountains that inspired Michelangelo. Each of the 24 experiences and sights it highlights are illustrated in 150 luscious full-color photographs. The planning section tells you all about costs, lodging options, how to get there, and more, and a detailed map shows you what's where. Escape to Tuscany is lovely enough to treasure as a dream book, yet durable enough to withstand the rigors of travel, so keep this book by your bedside to sweeten your dreams, or pop it into your tote bag when you hit the road. And get ready for the trip of a lifetime.

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Review:

Open Escape to Tuscany and you are there, heart and soul, abducted by a photo of the Castello Ripa D'Órcia. The 15th-century crenellated castle sits high above a valley of olive groves, wheat fields, and vineyards. Skim some more and you're exploring the rocky isle of Giglio among the mint, myrtle, and lavender. Or you land in Torre le Cannelle, an isolated stone tower by the sea from which lookouts used to scan the waters for Barbary pirates. Covering everything from olive and grape harvests to Carrara marble, the Apuan Alps, monasteries, sulfurous spas, medieval cities, the cowboys of Maremma, and the artistic glories of Florence, the tiny dream book also has a chapter of practicalities (with maps, directions to these lovely places, and lodging options that range from villas and castles to hermitages), providing the necessary details to allow your body to catch up to your soaring Tuscan fantasies. --Stephanie Gold

About the Author:

Photographer Antonio Sferlazzo, a native and spiritual son of the Maremma, who is largely responsible for the choice of locations in this book, lives in the countryside outside Florence, tending his garden.  Innovative and painterly in its portrayals of landscapes, his work has appeared both in Italy and the United States in exhibitions and in major magazines, including l'Espresso, Gourmet, European Travel and Life, and GQ.  In 1993 Aperture included his images in its prestigious monograph on Italian photographers, which accompanied a traveling show that debuted at the Guggenheim Foundation in Venice and was exhibited in New York at the Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation.


Author Candice Gianetti, a longtime freelance writer and editor, fell in love with Italy unexpectedly during a brief visit cobbled onto the end of a long Greek idyll.  Back then, when she hit Florence, she was immediately afflicted by a malady of romantic 19th century travelers known as Stendhal Syndrome, after the French novelist who was so affected by the glories of the city that he walked "in constant fear of falling to the ground."  Even after months of work on this book, she still feels the same way.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fodor's Travel
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679008462
• ISBN 13: 9780679008460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 96