An indispensable guide to driving around the Italian Lakes and Mountains featuring the Lakes, Alps, the Dolomites, Venice, Verona, Florence and the Ligurian coatline.
"Yet Northern Italy offers so much more than castles, canals, art and dramatic scenery. Hidden in its valleys and dotting its lagoons and craggy coast are stunning gardens, prehistoric carvings, Celtic and Longobard sites, medieval villages, fresco-painted buildings, towns devoted to a single variety of wine and tiny regions with their own unique cultures and even languages."