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 Lombard
Designed for both handy on-site use and pleasurable at-home browsing, this is an essential companion for all lovers of Italian food. Would you eat a spongata or choose puffo-flavoured gelato? This gui
The new edition of the Blue Guide to this fascinating city, which straddles Europe and the Orient and whose history goes back to the days of ancient Greece, offers superb coverage of all the major mo
Rome in their own words. An anthology of writing about Rome down the ages. From Juvenal to Jhumpa Lahiri, over 2,000 years of literature about, and set in, Rome. Extracts from the works of poets, nov
The first Blue Guide to include in the same book two of Italy's biggest destinations, Rome and Florence, Blue Guide Central Italy also explores the bucolic countryside
Cecil Torr's 19th-century studies of Rhodes, in the Greek Dodecanese, off the coast of Asia Minor, were the first and most authoritative English guides to the island's multi-layered history. Nothing a
