Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide ..."The best guide available. Packed to the brim with colour photos, maps and essential information" - "Amazon Reader" review. Tuscany was the birthplace of the Renaissance, and this guide directs you to its finest artistic treasures. For travellers who appreciate the visual arts, no other guide can compete with DK"s hundreds of colour photographs and its unique 3-D aerial view illustrations, which accompany an extremely informative text. In this new expanded edition you"ll find four specially devised walking tours and four suggestions for great days out in Florence as well as a comprehensive selection of hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment venues. With four chapters dedicated to Florence alone, five chapters on the surrounding regions of Tuscany, and colour maps of all the regions, this guide has earned a place as one of the highlights of this award-winning series. This title is the winner of the "Guardian" & "Observer" "Best Guide Books" Award and "Wanderlust Magazine" Silver Award for "Top Guidebook".