MICHELIN Guide Italy 2011 helps travelers find great places to eat and stay, with obsessively-researched recommendations to more than 4,200 hotels and 2,300 restaurants. This guide, updated annually, appeals to all tastes and budgets. Local, anonymous, professional inspectors carefully select restaurants, using the celebrated Michelin food star-rating system. The guide is not a directory-only the best make the cut; so travelers can feel confident in their choices. This Michelin Guide includes an introduction in English and explains the easily recognizable symbols used to indicate facilities and services. Although minimal text in these guides is written in the language of the country, you can understand each establishment"s entry through the descriptive symbols even if you don"t speak the language. Use with the Michelin Green Guide Italy, Michelin Italy Road Map No. 735 or Michelin Italy Road Atlas.