DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy

This is a beautiful book and excellent for preparing what to see and where to go in Italy. The illustrations are superb and are especially helpful for picking how to spend a limited amount of time and see things of the most interest in a museum, gallery or point of interest. This is not a preferred resource for hotels and restaurants but as an arts & culture reference it cannot be beaten. I will continue to enjoy looking at this book long after my trip.

The DK Eyewitness guides in general are our "go to" guides for wherever where go. We usually start with them and then look at others, but always come back. Love all the pictures and easy to follow maps (3-D lots of times, easier to follow for those who aren't map savvy). Also l ike the way they group lots of pertinent information at the end so you are not flipping through pages and pages of information to find a hotel or restaurant.

I already have an older copy of the DK Guide. This copy was purchased for a friend. The book is a stunning pictorial of the most beautiful county in the world. Their photos, maps and cross section drawings of buildings are amazing in their accuracy. Their descriptions of sites and cities are engaging and engrossing. There is only one problem with the book. They make no attempt to quantify the value of seeing a particular city or site. For those of us with a limited amount of time and money to spend in a foreign country, we need to be very selective about what to see and how we budget our time. For that critical element, I rely on Rick Steves travel recommendations. I feel it is essential to have both books. Rick Steves will help you navigate the travel and custom differences and get you to what is most important to see, and DK Eyewitness will guarantee that you do not miss the important details of the site.

DK Eyewitness is my favorite travel book - great recommendations and advice, beautiful photos and maps - an all inclusive book for our travels. We like to be flexible with our travels and don't plan everything down to the minute - regardless, this book is great for travelers who do want to plan every second of their trip or for those who just want to know what is available as they are traveling and wing it. Great travel book!

I bought this for our trip to Italy last summer, and really loved it. We have quite a few DK travel books, they are a good value and have lots of great information in them. What I really love is all of the color photos! So many travel books have few or no photos, which to me is just boring! I would always recommend DK books!

My friend from Milan pronounced the Guide excellent. The maps and pictures were accurate and illuminating. The comments on the art very helpful. In all it will be a great aid for the traveler.

My wife had an older version of this book. Now she's got this one, has studied it throughly, and we're going to Italy later this year for 3 1/2 weeks, including a 1 week cooking school. This is an invaluable travel resource.

Typically I love DK travel guides. I much prefer reading the descriptions and seeing photos of the sites and locations. This one is just too high level though. The descriptions are very brief and lacking detail. The Rick Steves Italy 2015 book is much better -- but no pictures. I also have the DK Tuscany book and its much more detailed. I've used the DK books for other trips -- Greece, Norway, and a few others, and thought they were good. The italy book though is just not detailed enough -- they should've just made it a larger book or just stuck to the regional books.

This travel guide provides you with detailed information about historic buildings and areas, including clear drawings and background stories, maps of specific areas and historical centers of the featured cities. Perfect for curious and interested people that want to know more than the usual travel guide provides. If you search for a guide that recommends hotels and restaurants this is not the right guide for you, as this part has very little importance in the book.

I used this to help plan our vacation to Sicily and it has been very useful in explaining areas and places to visit. It has lots of photos as usual. I also purchased the Insight Sicily guide (which is also good) and there was nothing obviously left out of the DK guide.

Very good guide book. Some descriptions are very professional.

We buy an Eyewitness Travel Guide each time we decide to go away somewhere. The Sicily travel guide like the other guides in this collection is clear, well structured with all relevant information and lots of colour pictures to give you a proper idea of where you're going. The introduction gives you a geographical and historical background and presents events throughout the year. The main part of the guide is divided in the 5 main areas of Sicily (very good to help you decide where to stay). They include maps, a presentation of the various sites, recommanded circuits and walks. The guide ends with travelers information such as restaurants and hotels, shops and markets and practical advice. One I would personally add is: bring a GPS if you intend to drive there! It is a good quality book with thick covers and glazed pages which make it sturdy and long lasting and it is small enough to bring in your backback! A definite buy.

Comprehensive (given how much there is to see in Italy!) and easy to use. I like the Eyewitness guides overall and do recommend them. The Italy guide really worked for us, and covered all the areas we visited (Abruzzo, Amalfi coast, Naples, Sicily, and Rome).