Weave through Tuscany’s golden fields with Lonely Planet Italy's Best Trips


Few countries can rival Italy’s wealth of riches. Its historic cities have iconic monuments and masterpieces at every turn, its food is imitated the world over and its landscape is a majestic patchwork of snow-capped peaks, plunging coastlines, lakes and remote valleys. Lonely Planet is your passport to Italy’s Best Trips, with amazing travel experiences and the best planning advice.

Italy's Best Trips - 3rd edition

Explore Rome’s iconic sights, drive past the pink-hued granite summits of the Dolomites, and weave through Tuscany’s golden fields and medieval towns; all with your trusted travel companion.

Italy's Best Trips Top 10

1. Rome

2. Venice

3. The Dolomites

4. Tuscan Landscapes

5. Amalfi Coast

6. Lago di Como

7. Florence

8. Pompeii

9. Valle d'Aosta

10. Syracuse

Inside Lonely Planet’s Italy’s Best Trips Travel Guide:

- Full-colour maps and images throughout

- Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests

- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

- Honest review for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

- Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience – food, wine, architecture, arts, literature, landscapes

- Free, convenient pull-out city map (included in print version), plus over 92 colour maps

Coverage includes: Piedmont, the Alps. Italian Riviera, Cinque Terre, Dolomites, Rome, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Umbria, Emilia-Romagna, Puglia, Amalfi Coast, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia, and more

Writers: Duncan Garwood, Brett Atkinson, Alexis Averbuck, Cristian Bonetto, Gregor Clark, Peter Dragicevich, Paula Hardy, Virginia Maxwell, Stephanie Ong, Kevin Raub, Brendan Sainsbury, Regis St Louis, Nicola Williams

Get to the heart of Italy’s Best Trips and begin your journey now!

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Hike, Drive, Stayin' Alive!

by The Raven Brothers

Out of shape and unprepared, The Raven Brothers return to the road in a collection of ten quests to travel to their dream destinations against all odds! After two decades pioneering new routes across the globe, you would expect the authors of 'Driving the Trans-Siberian' to be hotshot explorers, with a sixth sense and an ability to survive in almost any situation. Think again! With virtually zero knowledge of the workings of the internal combustion engine and very limited skills of wilderness survival, Simon and Chris struggle into their hiking boots and power across three continents by river, tarmac and trail.

Venture to the top of Norway, cruise the road to Damascus, hike the Camino trail into Spain’s Wild West, row the Ganges, explore Frida Kahlo’s world in Mexico City, hangout with the dead in Sicily’s eerie catacombs, crawl deep inside Bolivia’s notorious silver mine, seek lions in Gujarat, wellness in Berlin and journey into the Naga Hills where tribal kings still rule.

Noted by Lonely Planet for their talent to portray an “accurate view of what to expect”, 'Hike, Drive, Stayin’ Alive!' signals a return to the duo writing “buttock clenching” travel comedy with the first in a series of candid stories of adventure by The Raven Brothers.