Each Frommer's guide is personally researched and thoroughly updated by a single author or a small team. This is the best-selling single country title in Frommer's Complete Guide series. The guide features a giant full-colour foldout rail map as a bonus! Italy's cities remain among the world's most popular destinations for travellers.
Florence, Rome, and Venice are consistently named among the 10 World's Best Cities. The World Heritage List of important historic and cultural sites expanded in 2000, with the addition of the city of Verona, the Aeolian Islands, and Assisi, the Basilica of San Francisco and other Franciscan sites. Indeed, UNESCO, the cultural branch of the United Nations, reports that Italy holds two-thirds of the world's artistic heritage. One of the world's most popular tourist attractions, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, is once again open to visitors after a decade-long reconstruction to shore up the structure's foundation. Italy is an all-season destination, as more and more travellers take advantage of super-low off-season airfares.
