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Old Mar 27, 2010 | 1:45 pm
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What region or city or area of Italy are you visiting? Regional guides can be more in-depth and have more restaurant and hotel reviews than ones for the whole of Italy.

I can suggest several for Sicily and the Veneto, where I live and have lived. For the other areas I basically defer to other experts. But If I need a guide I use the Italian Touring Club of Italy. http://www.touringclub.it/ They are the best in my book (no pun intended).
I use the Italian versions normally but they also have them translated into English. Blue guides are nice also.


FWIW the Rick Steves Guidebook is the best selling for Italy, though I have never used them or read myself.

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