The Rough Guide to Florence & Siena Map (Rough Guide City Maps)

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Customer Reviews:

Like all Rough Guide maps, the Florence & Siena map is excellent [Posted on 2006-05-12]
After using the excellent Rough Guide map of Barcelona, I purchase
Rough Guide maps when ever they are published for my destination. What I love
about these maps is that they are complete, accurate and very
tough. You can carry them around in your pocket, bend them and
sweat on them and they still remain as usable as ever.

This map has Florence on one side and Siena on the other (there
is a certain historical elegance for this choice). I did not
get a chance to test the map in Florence, but I did use it
during the five days I spent in Siena in April of 2006.

Siena, which competed with Florence for centuries, was finally
crushed by Florence and it took centuries for the city to recover.
As a result, Siena never developed the way Florence did and
much of the character of the old city remains, including the
original walls and the twisty streets with four or five story
brick buildings. This gives the streets of Siena the feeling
of a maze, since you can rarely see landmarks like the Siena
Duomo (cathedral). I constantly found myself going the wrong
direction. Even though Siena is small, I constantly used the
Rough Guide map while I was there.

Great map [Posted on 2006-08-06]
This was the best map of Florence for our trip. It's waterproof and rip proof. The sleeve it comes in is also really helpful to carry it around in your bag or pocket. I used it in conjunction with the Florence and Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides) and was extremely satisfied with both.

Florence/Sienna map [Posted on 2007-03-17]
The Rough Guide map of Florence and Sienna was easy to use. I could fold it anyway I wanted and when finished, fold it back to its original position. Rain made no impact. After lots of use, it still looks brand new.

Durable and Accurate [Posted on 2008-01-15]
Used the Rough Guide maps for Venice, Florence, and Rome and found them to be top notch. They have far more detail and accuracy than the maps handed out by hotels and local TI offices. The paper is coated so that it withstands serious abuse, fold, refold, stuff it in your pocket in a wad, it always comes out with all the print intact. The coating adds negligible bulk, more than worth it for the durability.

So good I bought for all my group going to Italy [Posted on 2008-04-07]
I take small groups of people to Italy and I am very picky about maps. I have searched hard for the very best map(I have looked at over 30 and comparing for 2 years) for Florence and for me, this is it and I give it all members of my tours. Here is why
1) It contains Florence, Siena and San Gimignano so we have 3 in one and the zoom in of central Florence is especially good
2) Very good use of colors which are crisp, well defined and very helpful in making the map easy to read. Buildings of significance are in purple, gardens in green, pedestrian only streets in yellow, etc.
3) All of the street names are present and they are easy to read
4) It is very durable and waterproof. Mine has been to Florence 7 times and it looks great and has been folded and stuffed.
5) All of the extras clearly marked - Parking, taxi stands, one way street directions, bus route numbers - all of this and still easy to read for even my poor eyes
If you plan on wandering the streets of Florence or Siena this map is a gem for never wasting a minute getting lost or finding a place.

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