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| Michelin Italy: Tourist and Motoring Atlas (Michelin Tourist and Motoring Atlas : Italy) | 
 enlarge | Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 141883
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 13th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 9.3 x 0.2
ISBN: 2067132911
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9782067132917
ASIN: 2067132911
Publication Date: February 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great GPS supplement! April 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Map is has an easy to read scale and user friendly spiral book binding. Although I almost always have my GPS with me, this map is great to get an overview of routes, serve as a back-up when the GPS malfunctions, plan alternative routes and see what other interesting places are near-by.
Great New Format for Michelin April 4, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Very convenient format for the consistently superb maps that Michelin produces!! Will be a lot easier to use than the "fold-up" maps as we drive through northern Italy and the lake country this summer.
Excellent, clear guide to driving in Italy January 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What I like about this atlas is that it lies flat and is sturdy...very useful while driving in Italy and trying to determine if you should turn right or left at the intersection!
Remember that this is a MAP...not a guide book that will hold your hand and spell out for you what restaurant or museum is worth stopping at...those locations are clearly marked but it's up to you to do a little research or get out and explore on your own...my pick when traveling!
The only thing that would make this atlas more useful is if it included a concise guide to Italian road signs...you can find a great guide at [...] but it would've been nice to have it as part of the atlas.
 Good for some, not for me September 9, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having never been to Europe, my husband and I planned a driving trip through Italy. Hubby told me to buy the Michelin Map, so I sought out reviews on Amazon. Great reviews on Amazon led me to buy this one. Although the book does have close-up maps of all the major cities, they really are not very useful until you are in the main part of the city, and I did not use this as a walking guide because it was just to large to be practical to use while walking around. The maps are also full of numbers of "places of interest" but these numbers corespond to listings in a different book, so since I did not have the other book, the numbers were just polluting the map. Also, street names in Italy are hard to find, but the book does a lousy job of showing the names of streets that are there. Since I live in Texas, I am used to following street signs to get from one place to the other. In Italy, everything is signed by the upcoming city rather than letting you know the street. It would have been extremely helpful for a disclaimer to be put at the beginning of the book explaining this.
Also, there is no place in the book where you have an indication of distance. Since you cannot determine distance, when you get lost (which is easy to do with these maps)it is terribly difficult to regain a sense of direction because you don't know how far you have gone.
I feel that the book was also poorly organized, so it was very illogical to try to use the close up maps because you have to flip up to 4 different pages to get the proper directions, and when you are lost in the middle of Rome, dealing with 4 pages will just get you more lost and seriously threaten the vows of marriage. LOL.
I will say that the book did a good job of getting us through the countryside to get us from city to city, but in fairness, if you can read, (even if you cannot read Italian), you can use the highway signs and do the same thing.
The next major vacation we take, I will take an electronic navigation system with me, but if I must take a paper map, I will go to the book store and look at maps so that I don't take a chance of getting stuck with something like this again.
Finding our way August 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This product is great, very detailed. We should definately be able to find our way around Italy. Unfortunately, as with all maps, it cannot all be on the same page, and you have to follow on other pages. But as I already said great detail.
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