Michelin Green Guide Italy

I am an instructor at the International Tour Management Institute ([...]) as well as a tour director. I spend 4 months a year as a tour director in Italy and am never without my Green Guide and I always recommend that our tour directors and tour guides in training research their destinations using it. Michelin guides will give you information on every little village and town whereas most other guide book just give you the highlights and most important sites.

I bought this to read before we go to Italy again. (I've already traveled there about five times). My previous copy was about twenty years old! The Michelin Green Guides are my favorite because they are succinct enough to read as you are traveling but they don't ramble on, they just give you the facts and the info that you need. And the maps are excellent!

The Michelin Green Guide is still the best. It will turn you into your own expert guide. The star system lets you select the best spots to fit into your time frame. It will fit into your pocket, but it is not a light weight guide. Durable and easy to use, it is a classic.

The map is great and incredibly detailed. Instead of printing the whole county on one side, it might have been better to divide it into North and South, one on each side, just for ease of viewing.

I have used Michelin Green Guides for 30 years. From San Francisco, to New York, to New England, to Germany, they never fail to give me accurate and useful information. I bought the Green Guide to Italy and it is as chock full of goodies as any of the other half dozen guides I own and love. It is not laid out by region (which is the only reason why I gave just 4 stars), but, instead, by city. Since I know the alphabet pretty well by now, I got over my initial disappointment! The guide does a very good job describing the best things to see at all of the major tourist cities - Venice, Rome Florence and Milan. It even gives useful information on smaller, but interesting, cities like Gubbio (a GREAT town to visit). The size and shape encourages you to carry it along with you and the high quality of the paper and binding means that it will last through several trips. If I could only own one book on Italy, this would probably be it - it was the first I bought. It doesn't give insights into places to eat or hotels, but there are the red guides...