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> SlowTrav > Italy > Travel Notes > General Art & Architecture TownsPauline Kenny Italy Revealed, A Guide to Art and Architecture in the Italian Landscape, Charles FitzRoy, photos by Joe Cornish, Little, Brown and Company, 1994 (out of print but available used) This is a wonderful book that I have used to plan some of our trips. It contains short driving tours to towns with significant art and architecture. I photocopy the tours for the areas we will be visiting. The book has color photos and a detailed description of each tour (including driving time, length of tour, best time of year). From the book: "The itineraries in this book are designed for the motorist who has no inclination to suffer the full terror of confronting Italian drivers en masse in the narrow streets of a city (where the definition of a split second is the time that it takes a driver to hoot his horn when the traffic lights turn green). It is in the countryside that you can best capture the unchanging face of Italy." I copied the table of contents of this book below to give you an idea of the suggested tours, but get a copy of the book if you can for the complete description of each tour (table on contents reproduced here with permission of the author Charles FitzRoy - www.bellinitravel.com). Tuscany and Northern LazioTOUR 1. Renaissance GeniusHalf day tour on part of the Piero della Francesca trail (Urbino is omitted).
TOUR 2. The Garden as Theatre1 1/2 day tour of gardens near Lucca.
TOUR 3. Beacons of CivilizationFull day tour in southern Tuscany.
TOUR 4. Medici MagnificienceFull day tour west of Florence.
TOUR 5. Pilgrims' FootstepsFull day tour in Umbria and Tuscany to see late fifteenth century (Quattrocento) pilgrimage churches.
TOUR 6. Art Conquers NatureFull day tour of three villas and gardens near Viterbo in Lazio.
TOUR 7. Etruscan Mysteries1 1/2 day tour of Etruscan sights in southern Tuscany and northern Lazio.
The Veneto and FriulliTOUR 8. Palladian PageantShort day tour of villas in the Veneto.
TOUR 9. Artists at HomeShort day tour of towns with art of the Venetian artists.
TOUR 10. Strongholds of the SerenissimaFull day tour of the fortified towns from the Middle Ages.
TOUR 11. Illusions of GrandeurFull day tour to see art works by Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770).
TOUR 12. Imperial InheritanceFull day tour of early 4th century Christianity art near Venice.
Umbria and the MarcheTOUR 13. Perugino's MasterpiecesShort day tour to see Perugino frescoes.
TOUR 14. Medieval PanoramaFull day tour of central Umbria towns.
TOUR 15. The Heart of the ApenninesFull day tour of a tour of the mountains east of Spoleto.
TOUR 16. Princely SplendourFull day tour of Quarttrocento palaces.
SicilyTOUR 17. Power and OpulenceFull day tour of Norman churches near Palermo.
TOUR 18. Decorum and DecadenceShort day tour of Oratories in Palermo.
TOUR 19. The Legacy of GreeceFull day tour of Greek ruins.
TOUR 20. Baroque ExtravaganceFull day tour of Baroque towns.
TOUR 21. The Land of the LeopardFull day tour to see towns in the interior of Sicily.
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