First Time in Italy: Short and really useful manual with practical advice and secrets from locals + necessary phrases in Italian - Softcover

Néster, Sergio

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Synopsis

🟊 Much more than a typical Italy travel guide【 new edition 】

Lifesaver on your first trip to Italy

This book will tell youif trains really can be an hour late, whether it’s appropriate to leave a tip at the restaurant, and how to navigate those confusing Italian markets. It will equip you with the most important thing: an understanding of the country and its people.

🞧 useful Italian phrases with translations and pronunciation
🞧 museum websites where you can buy tickets at the lowest prices
🞧 apps to buy bus tickets online in different cities
🞧 phone numbers for embassies and emergency services, just in case
🞧 translation of Italian signs

No clichés. Personal, friendly, conversational

This book won't provide you with typical tourist routes around the Colosseum, lengthy hotel adverts, or the usual list of attractions you'd find on the first page of a Google search. Instead, reading this book is like having a conversation with your best friend who just returned from a trip to Italy and is eager to share his personal experiences

12 chapters with everything you need

1. What is Italy
2. Where go Go: Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Naples
3. Transport
4. Climate
5. Accomodation
6. Food and wine
7. Local market
8. Supermarket
9. Restaurant
10. Pizzeria
11. Bar
12. Italians

This book won't help you plan a detailed itinerary for Italy. But it will give you more: a genuine insight into the essence of Italy itself. So that your First Time in Italy will be unforgettable — and then there will be a second, third, fifth, and twenty-fifth time. And be careful: Italy knows how to enchant at first sight ;)

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From the Inside Flap

So, here's what I want to tell you: Italy doesn't actually exist. Yes, it's just as you read it: Italy does not exist.

There is a piece of land in the Mediterranean Sea that strikingly resembles a boot. I don't really like it when the beautiful Apennine Peninsula is called a boot. But it does look like one, I must admit.

So, what exists if not Italy? There are 20 different "countries" that are situated on the boot-shaped peninsula. Sometimes they resemble each other, and sometimes they are completely different, so much so that it's even incorrect to compare them. It's like saying that the Netherlands and France are one country.

What does all this mean for you? It means that it's important where exactly in Italy you are. Depending on this, much changes: from the peculiarities of cuisine to an almost non-Italian language and a different temperament of the locals.

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