Page 374 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Europe
P. 374

372      IT AL Y  AND  GREECE
                                                                Innsbruck           Salzburg
       Exploring Italy                        Zurich                               AUSTRIA
                                             SWITZERLAND
       Italy’s elongated shape means travel                   S41  Bolzano   Cortina d'Ampezzo
       can take up a fair proportion of your                    S42     A22   S51    A23
       visit. Rome, Florence, and Venice    Domodossola  Lake Como       Belluno   Udine  SLOVENIA
                                                      (Lago di Como)
       are naturally the main tourist   Lake Maggiore            Trento           S13       Ljubljana
                                                          Lake Garda
       destinations, but there are many   (Lago Maggiore)  (Lago di Garda)                        Zagreb
                                    A5
       other attractive historic towns and   Aosta  Malpensa  Bergamo  Brescia  Vicenza  Treviso  Trieste
       cities that merit a detour of a    A4           Linate    Verona   A4
                                                             A4
       couple of days or more. Visitors   A5  Po   Milan A1  Mantua        Padua  Venice     Rijeka
                                                                                (Venezia)
       with time to explore often choose   Turin  A7      (Mantova)  N482   Adige (Padova)
                                                               Po
       to tour a particular region, such as   S23   (Torino)  A21  Parma  A22   Ferrara  S309
       Tuscany, the Veneto, or the island   Ta naro   A26  S 45   A15  A1  S16
       of Sicily. Road and rail connections   S20  A6  Genoa    Bologna
                                                  (Genova)
       are generally better in the north,   S21  A10  Portofino                Ravenna
       where Milan, Bologna, and Verona              Peninsula  A12         SAN  Rimini
       are the key transport hubs.                  La Spezia    A11      MARINO   Pesaro                CROATIA
                                                           Lucca
                                       San Remo                Florence    S71
                                Nice          Ligurian     Pisa  (Firenze)        S3    Ancona
                       FRANCE       MONACO               Livorno  San       Urbino
                                                Sea
                                                             Gimignano                S76                       Split
                   Marseille                                      Siena          Gubbio
                                                                                                                             BOSNIA AND
                                                                                Perugia                                     HERZEGOVINA
                                                                                         A14
                                                                S1
                                                                      S 223               Piceno    Adriatic
                                                                Piombino          Assisi  S77  Ascoli
                                                                           A1
                                                      Bastia  Elba      Orvieto  Todi  S4              Sea                  Dubrovnikk
                                                   N193         Orbetello                A24  Pescara
                                               Corsica                      Viterbo     L'Aquila       Isole
                                                                          Civitavécchia    A25   Sulmona  Tremiti
                                                                                                A14
       Sights at a Glance                      Ajaccio  N198             Fiumicino
       1 Rome pp374–87   u Verona                                              ROME (Roma)  I TA L Y         S89
       2 Assisi pp388–9   i Vicenza                                           Anzio  S148  A1  N85     Foggia                     Greece,
                                                                                                                                   Egypt
       3 Perugia     o Padua                                                           S 213       S87
       4 Siena pp390–92   p Venice pp414–23                                                Naples   Benevento  A14   Bari
                                                                                            S7
       5 San Gimignano   a Ferrara                  S1 25                                  (Napoli)    A16         N96             Greece
                                          Porto
       6 Florence pp394–407   s Bologna   Torres      Olbia                          Isola d'Ischia  Pompeii          A14   S1 6
       7 Pisa        d Ravenna                Sassari                                         Amalfi                             Brindisi
       8 Lucca       f Urbino           Alghero  S131   S131d                           Isola di Capri  Amalfi  S407         S7  Lecce
       9 Portofino Peninsula   g Naples                                                           Coast       Agri    Taranto    S16
       0 Genoa       h Pompeii                                                                          S18       S 106
       q Turin       j Amalfi Coast            Sardinia                     T yrrhenian                       A3
       w Milan       k Palermo                 S1 31   S125                      Sea
       e Lake Maggiore   l Taormina                                                                           S18        Ionian
       r Lake Como   z Mount Etna             S130                                                                        Sea
       t Lake Garda   x Syracuse                   Cagliari                                                      Cosenza
       y Mantua      c Agrigento
                                                                                                                   Catanzaro
                                                                                              Isole Eolie o Lípari
                                                                                                              A3  S106
                                                                                       Palermo              Reggio di
                                                                           Isole                      Messina  Calabria
                                                                          Egadi  Trapani
                                                                                    A29          A20  A18
                                                                                         A19
                                                                                              Mount Etna  Taormina
                                                                                                 A19   Catania
                                                     M E D I T E R R A N E A N                   S E A
                                                                         Tunis     Agrigento  S ici l y
                       0 km    80
                                                                                                         Syracuse
                                                                                                 S115
                       0 miles      80                                                                   (Siracusa)
                                                                    Tunis    Isola di           Ragusa
                                                                             Pantelleria
                                                                                                            Malta
       For hotels and restaurants see pp438–40 and pp441–3
   372-373_EW_Europe.indd   372                              14/07/16   3:08 pm
   369   370   371   372   373   374   375   376   377   378   379