This personal and wonderfully well-informed selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveller. As well as comprehensively covering the finest sights in the major tourist centres of Rome, Florence, Venice and elsewhere, Russell discusses and describes the neglected or little known masterpieces that are still to be found the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. A richly textured portrait of a country where the history and patterns of civilization lie more thickly than anywhere else on earth.