DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italy Paperback – September 15, 2014

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.

great pictures and guide info - used the recommended restaurants and took a cab to the restaurant .... the hotel receptionist was surprised we knew of the restaurant "By By Blues" in Palermo. The restaurant was small (10 tables), quaint and casual. Everything was made on the spot. Wine by the glass was ~8 eur -- since I drink red and my wife drinks white - this was perfect. We shared appetizer and desert ---- and between courses we received palate pleasing snacks.

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.

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.

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 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.