"The best guidebook yet to post-Communist Budapest."―Travel + Leisure. In this fourth edition of Visible Cities Budapest, Annabel Barber and Emma Roper-Evans offer a comprehensive guide to a rapidly changing city. Here, Budapest's fascinating history, legends, and native character are revealed in detail, and readers are offered an opportunity to acquaint themselves with the architecture, inhabitants, food, and wine of the region. Unexpected historical details reveal what the Habsburg emperor said about Europe's most beautiful opera house, why the Hungarians eat paprika, and who bowed to the ground in thanks when he first saw Buda. In full-color, with five detailed walks and excellent recommendations on what to see and do throughout the seasons, Visible Cities Budapest is an invaluable guide that does more than inform―it reveals. Full-color throughout

Visible Cities Budapest

Travel

Barber, Annabel

Roper-Evans, Emma

Europe

Blue Guides Limited of London

This detailed and discriminating English-language guide to Dubrovnik, loaded with anecdotes and insight, includes a history of the medieval Ragusan Republic, chapters on the city's art and architecture and vibrant modern communit. Five short, guided walks through the old town, and advice on destinations elsewhere along the scenic Croatian coastline offer a wealth of traveling adventures. With food and wine reviews, practical tips about the town, and short, selective lists of restaurants and hotels, this is the essential handbook for visiting this captivating city by the sea.

Visible Cities Dubrovnik

History

Updated with new information on restaurants, bars, and hotels, this visual travel guide reveals the tumultuous history, local legends, and colorful character of Budapest with vivid images and detailed text. From the stern-faced symbols of Communism to the Renaissance splendors of a vanished world, travelers are guided with lively detail to such city treasures as Budapest's coffeehouses and their resident poets, the steamy Turkish baths, and the old haunts of the pashas. Rich historical details reveal what the Hapsburg emperor said about Europe’s most beautiful opera house, why the Hungarians eat paprika, and who bowed to the ground in thanks when he first saw Buddha. Eight guided walks highlight the city’s ancient history, grandiose architecture, vibrant culture, savory restaurants, and local traditions.

Visible Cities Budapest (Visible Cities Guidebook)

Somerset, Ltd.

A Blue Guide Travel Monograph The Eternal City has been a magnet for pilgrims for much of the last two thousand years. This travel monograph acts as a modern-day handbook to Rome and the main holy sites, examining the impulse that makes pilgrims of us all, believers and skeptics alike.

Pilgrim's Rome: A Christian's Guide to the Historical Sites (Travel Monograph Series)

Full update of this essential and much-loved Blue Guide Northern Italy is a treasure-chest of Western civilization: Milan, Bologna, Mantua, Ravenna, Turin, Parma, Venice, and the famous Lakes are must-sees for independent cultural travelers. This new edition of a key Blue Guide helps you know what you need to see as well as where to stay and what to eat. 16 Color Maps, 40 B&W Photographs, 44 2-Color Maps and Plans

Blue Guide Northern Italy: From the Alps to the Adriatic

MACADAM, ALTA

Blanchard, Paul.

Fully updated edition of this essential handbook to the Eternal City, the guide of choice for experts and independent travelers. A guide to Rome designed for those who like to dig deep. The detail of coverage is outstanding: this is an essential resource for getting to know a city whose culture spreads over millennia. Blue Guide Rome is mandatory reading on college study programs. With excellent detailed maps and plans. 10 color maps, 40 B&amp;W Photographs and two-tone plans

Blue Guide Rome: Eleventh Edition (Travel Series)

Completely updated and extended new edition of this beautiful city on the Danube. Designed for the traveler who wants to understand more fully what he or she sees. Blue Guides have been published continuously since 1918 and are the most comprehensive travel guides concentrating on history, architecture and art. This guide to Budapest, perhaps the most beautiful of the Central European capitals, covers the city in meticulous detail. The depth of information and quality of research make this book the best guide for the independent cultural traveller. With high-quality maps from Blue Guides’ award-winning cartography series, detailed plans, photos and illustrations, and full coverage of places to stay and eat. 10 Full Color Maps 40 B&amp;W Photographs, 8 two-tone plans

Blue Guide Budapest: Third Edition (Travel Series)

First edition in-depth coverage of this exceptional area of Italy. Blue Guides, now in their centenary year, have been published continuously since 1918 and are the most comprehensive travel guides concentrating on history, architecture and art. This guide to Lombardy, with full coverage of the major city of Milan, also takes in Lakes Maggiore, Como and Garda as well as the historically and artistically rich towns of Cremona, Bergamo, Mantua, Brescia and Pavia. The depth of information and quality of research make this book the best guide for the independent cultural traveller. With high-quality maps from Blue Guides’ award-winning cartography series, numerous plans and photos, and full coverage of places to stay and eat. 5 full-color maps, 25 B&amp;W photographs, 12 two-tone plans

Blue Guide Lombardy, Milan & The Italian Lakes (Travel Series)

A guide to Rome designed for those who like to dig deep. The detail of coverage is outstanding: this is an essential resource for getting to know a city whose culture spreads over millennia. Blue Guide Rome is mandatory reading on college study programs. With excellent detailed maps and plans. Blue Guides are designed for those who like to explore and dig deep. The detail of coverage is exceptional, making this an essential resource for all those who really want to get to know the history, art, architecture, archaeology and culinary culture of Rome. With excellent detailed maps throughout, as well as photographs and plans. The guide covers the historic centre, Vatican, the outlying catacombs, Via Appia, Ostia and Tivoli. Detailed listings give helpful tips on food, drink, accommodation and transportation.

Blue Guide Rome: Twelfth Edition (Travel Series)

Blue Guide Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Blue Guides Limited

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