Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto

By Lonely Planet, Alison Bing and Paula Hardy

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Take a gondola along the Grand Canal, gaze in awe at the mosaics in the Basilica di San Marco, or feast on fresh seafood in Venice's calli (backstreets), all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Venice & the Veneto and begin your journey now!

Inside Lonely Planet's Venice & the Veneto Travel Guide:

• Full-colour maps and images throughout
• Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests
• Insider tips save you time and money, and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
• Essential info at your fingertips - including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices
• Honest reviews for all budgets - including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
• Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience - including history, art, architecture, literature, cinema, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, wine and the Venetian way of life
• Free, convenient pull-out Venice map (included in print version), plus over 30 colour maps
• Useful features - including Walking Tours, Travel with Children, and Day Trips
• Coverage of San Marco, Dorsoduro, San Polo & Santa Croce, Cannaregio, Castello, Guidecca, Lido, Murano, Burano, highlights of Veneto and more

eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices)

• Zoom-in maps and images bring it all up close and in greater detail
• Downloadable PDF and offline maps let you stay offline to avoid roaming and data charges
• Seamlessly flip between pages
• Easily navigate and jump effortlessly between maps and reviews
• Speedy search capabilities get you to what you need and want to see
• Use bookmarks to help you shoot back to key pages in a flash
• Visit the websites of our recommendations by touching embedded links
• Adding notes with the tap of a finger offers a way to personalise your guidebook experience
• Inbuilt dictionary to translate unfamiliar languages and decode site-specific local terms

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto, our most comprehensive guide to Venice & the Veneto, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled.

• Looking for just the highlights of Venice? Check out Lonely Planet's Pocket Venice, a handy-sized guide focused on the can't-miss sights for a quick trip.
• Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Italy guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer, or Lonely Planet's Discover Italy, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Release date: Jul 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781743218105

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Reviews for Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto

[ocelotc-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Per usual, this was a wonderful read from Lonely Planet! I used this travel guide on my trip to Italy this summer, and it was a great help! We went to San Marco, and we took a gondola ride on The Grand Canal. We stayed on Venice Lido, and took the water taxi to and from the island. As usual, this book is filled with pictures, information, and very detailed tips and tourist guides. It also includes a map in the back. There are tips for where to go with kids, and a family. There is also a survival guide close to the back! Would you be interested in going to/seeing:-Chiesa di San Giorgio Maggiore? Most tourists do not go up to it, but instead are able to see it across the water. The Istrian stone is used to make it stand out, and it is placed where the sun can shine down on it for a major part of the day.-Murano? On this island, you can see factories where glass is being shaped by hand, and you can buy a souvenir or two!-The Arsenale, founded in 1104?! Perhaps 'Europe's greatest naval installation'!If you're interested in learning more about Venice and the Veneto, place an order now! It'll be hard not to go, after reading through all the information in this book! On a personal note, Venice is a beautiful city/island, and I had a blast while I was there, so I definitely recommend that you go there for your next vacation, and don't forget to bring this handy little travel guide with you!I would like to thank Lonely Planet for providing me with this book in exchange for an honest review.

[jgolomb_2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I couldn't have received this book at a better time. After having been to Venice for 3 days about 2 years ago with my wife, we've decided to take our entire family (1 teenager, 1 tween, and one 4th grader) to Italy for 2 full weeks. Venice will be the last stop, and probably the city most anticipated by us all.My wife and I are big into travel books when we go abroad. I don't want to miss a key part of history, or a great restaurant. She doesn't want to miss the best shopping and secrets to avoiding crowds. And naturally we're looking for the best activities for kids as part of this very family-oriented vacation. This Lonely Planet offering has it all in a well-organized, colorful guide. It includes numerous "top lists" for those looking for pre-thoughtout itineraries, including best places to eat, shop, visit with kids, visit for free, and, of course, best museums. While this info is aggregated in the front of the guide, you'll find the primary organization based on Venice's Sestieres - or neighborhoods. Each Sestiere comes with a map, a neighborhood-specific 'top five', and of course, best places to eat, drink and be entertained. For cultural and history buffs, the book pulls together a nice set of essays on the city's evolution and rich cultural history. Everything is easy to read, and laid out in a very modern and simple to understand format.The pull-out map covers all of the sightseer highlights and major throughways, and canals, but it's skimpy on street details. Venice is an absolute maze and a fun place to get lost. This map will only be of moderate help if you're a stickler for knowing exactly where you are at any given time. That being said, I'm not sure there exists a map of Venice that can truly prevent one from being lost at least sometimes. Maybe the best map feature is the detailed map of the vaparetto system.I received this book through Amazon's Vine program.

[vpfluke · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Lonely Planet travel books are the best around, a worthy successor of the pre WW2 Baedekers. The South Caucasus is a complex region with a mixture of religions and languages that are very different. So, I can imagine myself visiting these countries with the help of these Lonely Planet guides.