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Great Escapes Italy. The Hotel Book

60Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)Availability: In Stock
In Italy, art and life are entwined. This visual journey offers glimpses of rural landscapes, high culture, and divine food, all spied through the doorways and windows of the country’s most stunning hotels. Gorgeous photographs of hideaways and homesteads from Venice to Sicily offer fabulous accommodation suggestions for your next dolce vita getaway. Angelika Taschen takes us to hidden gems across the country, profiling each getaway through extensive photography and key information.
Hardcover9.4 x 11.9 in.5.06 lb360 pages
“All places where you can melt away from the problems of the real world.”
Living North Magazine
“This illustrated book awakens desire. La dolce vita as we love it. ”
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Great Escapes Italy. The Hotel Book

Great Escapes Italy. The Hotel Book

60

La bell’Italia è per sempre

Legendary hotels and secret hideaways full of atmosphere

To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples, and Rome. Countless books, paintings, poems, and sculptures are evidence of its undying appeal, and over the past 60 years, the country has become one of the world’s top travel and holiday destinations. The loveliness of Italy is, if not eternal, certainly enduring, and the easygoing and relaxed Italian lifestyle is still unrivaled.

Here, some of Italy’s most amazing landscapes and diverse regions are honored, like Tuscany, Umbria, the Amalfi Coast, and, no less magical, the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily. In these mythical surroundings are legendary hotels full of atmosphere, where novels are set, movies are made, weddings are celebrated, and famous love stories consummated: Villa d’Este on Lake Como, the Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, the Il San Pietro on the Amalfi Coast, and the Palazzo Margherita in Basilicata—to name just a few. Angelika Taschen also reveals where to find more secret and hidden jewels—from the Locanda Cipriani, a destination for food lovers on the island of Torcello, to the romantic Castello di Vicarello in Tuscany and the atmospheric Masseria Moroseta in Puglia.
The editor

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN from 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.

Texts by

Christiane Reiter is a freelance author based in Brussels. She studied journalism at the University of Eichstätt and worked as a travel editor for Ringier Publishing in Munich and Zurich. Later, she established the travel section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

Great Escapes Italy. The Hotel Book
Hardcover23.8 x 30.2 cm2.30 kg360 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-7805-9

Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)
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When I'm not in Italy, this is my escape!

Christopher,October 28, 2021
As an Italian, growing up in America, I have been fortunate to visit many of Italy's diverse regions. However, as small as the country may be, it offers so much more than meets the eye. Great Escapes Italy is a staple-piece on our home coffee table. Whenever I am feeling nostaligic or planning a trip to return home to see my family, its the first book that I pick up. I recommend this book to any lover of Italian culture and hospitality, or simply as part of your "Great Escapes" collection.

Inspirational

Gianluca,October 27, 2021
Great advices on beautiful accommodations: to be put into practice, of course, but to "travel from home" as well.

pour un séjour de folie en Italie

Jean-Georges,October 27, 2021
Ce beau livre montre des vues détaillées et magnifiques des plus beaux hôtels italiens, et qui sont situés dans des sites exceptionnels. Certes, le prix d'un séjour est élevé, et c'est pourquoi je parle de folie. Mais une fois dans une vie, on peut se laisser aller, non ?

Great espace Italy

Stephane,June 30, 2022
Très bien

Pour un séjour de folie en Italie

Jean-Georges,October 27, 2021
Ce beau livre montre des vues détaillées et magnifiques des plus beaux hôtels italiens, et qui sont situés dans des sites exceptionnels. Certes, le prix d'un séjour est élevé, et c'est pourquoi je parle de folie. Mais une fois dans une vie, on peut se laisser aller, non ?