Contributors

Gillian Arthur is a long term resident of Friuli-Venezia Giulia where she has her own company organizing wine and walking tours. She has collaborated on several travel books including Dorling Kindersley’s Back Roads Northern and Central Italy.

Ros Belford is co-author of The Rough Guide to Italy and author of Dorling Kindersley’s Eyewitness Travel Guide: Rome. She has also written articles for magazines ranging from National Geographic Traveler to Vogue.

Lucy Ratcliffe is an award-winning travel writer and editor who has spent much of the last ten or more years living in and travelling around Milan and the Italian Lakes.

Born in England, Kate Singleton took a degree in Philosophy in Milan and has lived in Italy ever since. She has written for various publications in Italian and English, including Il Giornale, the Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, and the International Herald Tribune, for which she is still an occasional contributor.

Helena Smith is a writer, photographer and editor. She is a winner of the Vogue and Independent on Sunday writing competitions, and author of The Rough Guide to Walks in London & Southeast England. Helena blogs about food and her community at eathackney.com.

Celia Woolfrey is a travel writer and magazine journalist, whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Dorling Kindersley’s Back Roads Italy and Back Roads Northern and Central Italy. She has also co-authored The Rough Guide to Italy since the first edition. Celia lives in London.

Additional Photography

Demetrio Carrasco; Judy Edelhoff; Philip Enticknap; Philip Gatward; Michelle Grant; Paul Harris and Anne Heslope; John Heseltine; Britta Jaschinski; Judith Miller/Biblion; Roger Moss; Rough Guides/Chris Hutty, /Dylan Reisenberger/James McConnachie/Martin Richardson; Kim Sayer; Tony Souter; Karen Trist; Christine Webb; Linda Whitwam; Celia Woolfrey.

Lead Creative Team

PUBLISHER Vivien Antwi

LIST MANAGER Christine Stroyan

MANAGING ART EDITOR Mabel Chan

SENIOR EDITORS Michelle Crane, Sadie Smith

EDITORS Georgina Palffy, Rada Radojicic, Vicki Allen, Claire Bush

DESIGNERS Shahid Mahmood, Tracy Smith

PICTURE RESEARCH Ellen Root, Marta Bescos

SENIOR DTP DESIGNER Jason Little

SENIOR CARTOGRAPHIC MANAGER Uma Bhattacharya

CARTOGRAPHER Mohammad Hassan

SENIOR CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Casper Morris

PHOTOGRAPHY Nick Bonetti, Nigel Hicks, Anna Mockford, Helena Smith

CARTOONS Tom Morgan-Jones

ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS Arun Pottirayil, Stephen Conlin, Donati Giudici Associati srl, Stephen Gyapay, Roger Hutchins, Maltings Partnership, Simon Roulstone, Paul Weston, John Woodcock

CONTRIBUTORS Gillian Arthur, Ros Belford, Lucy Ratcliffe, Kate Singleton, Helena Smith, Celia Woolfrey

PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Rebecca Short

DESIGN CONCEPT Keith Hagan at www.greenwichdesign.co.uk

Digital Team

HEAD OF DIGITAL OPERATIONS, DELHI Manjari Hooda

SENIOR DIGITAL PRODUCER Linda Zacharia

SENIOR EDITORIAL MANAGER Lakshmi Rao

EDITORS Suruchi Kakkar, Maasoom Dhillon, Chandni Jain

ASSISTANT EDITOR Ishita Gupta

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER Ravi Yadav

DIGITAL ASSETS COORDINATOR Rakesh Kumar

ASSISTANT GRAPHIC DESIGNER Rahul Rai

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Rohit Rojal

EBOOK EDITORS Alexandra Whittleton, Tora Agarwala

EBOOK CARTOGRAPHIC MANAGER Suresh Kumar

EBOOK CARTOGRAPHER Schchida Nand Pradhan

Additional Design and Editorial Assistance

JACKET DESIGN Tessa Bindloss, Louise Dick

READERS Vincent Crump, Fiona Wild

FACT CHECKER John Murphy

PROOFREADER Anna Streiffert

Revisions Team

Tora Agarwala, Shruti Bahl, Imogen Corke, Karen D’Souza, Cristina Dainotto, Stuart James, Bharti Karakoti, Sumita Khatwani, Carly Madden, Alison McGill, Vikki Nousiainen, Alessandra Pugliese, Solveig Steinhardt, Jo-Ann Titmarsh, Ajay Verma, Nikhil Verma

Photography Permissions

DORLING KINDERSLEY would like to thank all the museums, galleries, churches and other sights that allowed us to photograph at their establishments.

Aquario Genova; Bacilica Aquileia; Cappella Sarovegni; Gilberto Zedda at Comune di Milano; Dolonne Fun Park di Torino; Emanuela Travo at Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology; Messner Mountain Museum; Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Palazzo Reali di Torino; Triennale Design Museum; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn; Carlo Zasio (Ufficio Stampa)/Press Office) at Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities; Caol Ishka Hotel; Cinema dei Piccoli; Fondazione Idis-Città della Scienza; Hotel Raphaël – Roma; Carlo Anello at Museo Etnografico d’Atri; Susanna Cimino at Museo Galileo, Florence; Drssa Maria Laura Falsini (Archivio Fotografico) at Soprintendenza per I Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale; Serena Del Giudice at Bioparco di Roma.

Picture Credits

The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their photographs:

ACTV.

AEROPORTO DI VENEZIA MARCO POLO.

AGRITURISMO VILLANOVA.

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ALBERGHETTO DELLA MARIANNA.

ALITALIA.

LES AMIS DU BOIS.

ARCHEOPARC.

ARCHIVIO ANTONIO CALDERARA: Eraldo Misserini.

B&B ARMELLINO.

BARTOLUCCI FRANCESCO SRL.

CA’ POZZO INN.

CALA GONONE BEACH VILLAGE.

LA CAMOGLIESE.

CASA CORDATI.

CASA QUERINI.

CASTELLO BANFI.

CASTELLO DI GROPPARELLO.

COMUNE DI BOLOGNA.

Corbis: Fratelli Alinari; Arte & Immagini srl; Atlantide Phototravel/Guido Cozzi; /Massimo Borchi; /Stefano Amantini; Bettmann; Stefano Bianchetti; Massimo Borchi; The Gallery Collection; Image Source; Mark Karrass; Jean-Pierre Lescourret; Araldo de Luca; René Mattes; Ocean; Gianni Dagli Orti; Sergio Pitamitz; José Fuste Raga; Roger Ressmeyer; Reuters; Steven Vidler; Wang Xingqiao; Bo Zaunders.

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FUNIVIA DELL’ETNA S.P.A.

GETTY IMAGES: Alinari Archives/Reproduced with the permission of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali; The Bridgeman Art Library, /Primavera c.1478 Sandro Botticelli, /Portraits of Duke Federico da Montefeltro (1422–82) Piero della Francesca; DEA/G.

DAGLI ORTI, /M.

BORCHI; Grant V. Faint; Iconica/Philip and Karen Smith; The Image Bank/Buena Vista Images; Photographer’s Choice/Slow Images; Robert Harding World Imagery/Nico Tondini; SuperStock Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci; Taxi/Ulf Sjostedt.

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GRAZIELLA PATIO HOTEL.

HOTEL ANTICO DOGE.

HOTEL BADIA DI POMAIO.

HOTEL BOSONE PALACE.

HOTEL CORALLO SARDEGNA.

HOTEL KRONE. HOTEL LANCELOT.

HOTEL LOCANDA FIORITA.

HOTEL MONTANA.

HOTEL NAVONA.

HOTEL OASI DI KUFRA.

HOTEL PARLAMENTO.

HOTEL RELAIS VALLE ORIENTINA.

INFORMAZIONI E ACCOGLIENZA TURISTICA COMUNE DI PARMA.

L’ANTICO BORGO.

LAGACIO MOUNTAIN RESIDENCE.

MUSEO DI ARCHEOLOGIA LIGURE.

MUSEO PASSIRIA.

NUN ASSISI RELAIS & SPA MUSEUM RESTAURANT.

OSTELLO SAN NICOLA.

PALAZZO DEL SALE.

PARK HOTEL AI CAPPUCCINI.

PARKHOTEL HOLZNER.

PAV PARCO ARTE VIVENTE.

PIZZA SAN GIORGIO.

PUR SÜDTIROL.

RELAIS CAMPO REGIO.

RISTORANTE PANE E VINO.

RUSTICANELA RESTAURANT.

SARDEGNA IN MINIATURA.

SAT SOCIETA AEROPORTO TOSCANO SPA/PISA AIRPORT.

PHOTO SCALA, FLORENCE: courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att.

Culturali.

SPAINI & PARTNERS.

TENUTA REGINA.

TERME MERANO.

VILLA LAS TRONAS HOTEL & SPA.

CHRISTINE WEBB.

Jacket images: CORBIS: Jean-Pierre Lescourret/SuperStock; Eising, Susie M./ the food passionates; GETY IMAGES: Simon Watson; SUPERSTOCK: Funkystock/ age fotostock.

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