Review - Rick Steves' Planning Map Italy

 Use Rick's Italy guidebook instead
I took this map as well as Rick Steves' Italy guidebook with me on a two-week backpacking trip through Italy. All of Rick's merchandise is excellent, but I simply never needed the map. His guidebook includes a color map of Italy with major rail lines as well as double-page city maps of Venice, Rome, and Florence. I never bought or needed separate maps of Venice or Florence and purchased a detailed map of Rome only in order to look up some very specific addresses. The maps in the book are all you'll need if traveling by train. You'll also find maps throughout the text with locations of the major sites, hotels, and restaurants listed in the book pointed out on the map. For those traveling by car, I definitely recommend a more detailed road map since this planning map only highlights, with little supporting information, the most major roads. The rail lines are also shown in bolder print than the roads making it even more difficult to use as a road map.

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