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Invitation
to
Italy
(Or as John Steinbeck might have said:)
Travels With Emmy
A“Why-Not-Travel” rather than a
“How-To-Travel” Essay
By Jim and Emmy Humberd
Invitation to Italy
ISBN-0-9618405-3-6
© Jim and Emmy Humberd 2001
January 2, 2001
(Emmy’s birthday!)
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book in any form, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Other Books by Jim and Emmy
Invitation to France, ISBN-0-9618405-1-X
Invitation to Germany, ISBN-0-9618405-2-8
Em-J Publishing
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La Quinta, CA 92253
We have spent at least one of our 117 nights in Italy, in the places listed here. At several, such as Rome, Florence, Mestra, Punta Sabbioni, and San Marino, we spent nights in more than one location.
Anguillara
Assisi
Avigliana
Bologna
Cagliari (1)
Cala Gonone (1)
Camp. S Giov
Cannigione (1)
Carrera
Catania (2)
Chiavari
Cortina
Ferrara
Ferry, Sardinia
to Sicily
Fiesole
Florence
Forli
Fusina
Galiano d. Capo
Imperia
Lake Iseo
Lettojannie (2)
Levanto
Livino
Mestra
Milan
Modena
Monrupino
Monterosso
Nocera Umbra
Pescara
Pinata al Mare
Pisa
Pompeii
Portofino
Pozzuoli
Puccini
Punta Sabbioni
Rome
Salerno
San Gimignano
San Marino
San Remo
San Teodoro (1)
Sarzana
Siena
Sorrento
Soverato
Spoleto
SS Valentino,
Italy to Greece
Stresa
Taranto
Terme d. Torre
Tivoli
Torino
Urbino
Venice, Lido
(1) Sardinia
(2) Sicily
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Table of Contents with Vignettes
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Northeast Italy 6
Chapter 2 Venice, Beautiful Venice 11
Chapter 3 The Lake District 32
Chapter 4 Northwest Italy 43
Chapter 5 Milano to Modena 52
Chapter 6 Bologna, Ferrara, Padova 65
Chapter 7 Ravenna, San Marino, San Leo 75
Chapter 8 Urbino, Gubbio, Spoleto, to Todi 89
Chapter 9 Assisi, Perugia 101
Chapter 10 Italian Riviera, to Genova and Portofino 109
Chapter 11 Cinque Terra to Torre Del Lago Puccini 116
Chapter 12 Pisa and Lucca 125
Chapter 13 Florence, Fiesole, Arezzo 134
Chapter 14 San Gimignano, to Siena 147
Chapter 15 Montalcino to Roma 154
Chapter 16 Roma 159
Chapter 17 More Roma 172
Chapter 18 Tivoli to Pescara 189
Chapter 19 Ostia Antica, Anzio, to Pozzuoli 195
Chapter 20 Naples 201
Chapter 21 Monte Cassino, Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Pompeii 206
Chapter 22 Sorrento, Capri, Amalfi Coast 214
Chapter 23 Paestum, and to the Toe of Italy 222
Chapter 24 The Toe to the Heel 230
Chapter 25 Puglia, Italy’s Heel 238
Chapter 26 Sardinia 259
Chapter 27 Sicily 270
Appendix, Table of Contents 289
Appendix 291
Index 309
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