Now updated to include newer maps and photos—and lighter in weight to support carefree traveling—this comprehensive guidebook to the Camino de Santiago and its offshoots contains all the information needed by modern-day pilgrims wishing to walk the sacred Way of St. James. Overview route planners plus daily stage maps and detailed town plans he[Read More]

Full Colour, pull out sheetmap. Illustrated highlights cover Notre Dame, the Louvre, Versailles, Monte Carlo Casino, Marseilles Vieux Port, Mont St Michel.The plan. section features the following: Top Experiences; Need to Know; What's New; First Time; Month by Month; Itineraries; Eat & Drink Like a Local; Travel w. Children; Regions at a Glance etc

MICHELIN Guide France 2013 helps travelers find great places to eat and stay, with meticulously researched recommendations to more than 4,450 hotels and inns and 4,250 restaurants, from small family inns to luxury hotels, and from simple bistros to the almost 600 Michelin-starred restaurants. Updated annually, the guide appeals to all tastes and bu[Read More]

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in France.With this guide, you’ll explore sleepy villages, romantic hill towns, and cosmopolitan cities, including Paris, Avignon, and Nice. Climb the Eiffel Tower, wander world-renowned museums, and dine at sidewalk cafés. Then escape to the sunny countryside, [Read More]

Covering the worlds of culture and history, the dernier cri in fashion and cuisine, what’s hot/what’s not, day trips, night life, and all the memorable sites—from gay Paree to Mont-St-Michel—that has made, and keeps, France as one of Europe's most popular destination , this edition delivers non-fail super-trips to France-bound travelers, wh[Read More]

This second of the three-volume UNESCO World Heritage series examines "monument structures" sites that can be seen as an essence of their cultures. The UNESCO World Heritage program selected 47 monuments based on historical importance and stylistic variations employed for the exercise of political power, social prestige, luxury, religious worship[Read More]

Best-selling guide to all 936 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Fully updated to include the latest sites added to the list in June 2011. The list is managed by the World Heritage Committee with strict criteria, and only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites make it onto the list. The prestigious list includes some of the most famous plac[Read More]

In 1972 UNESCO created the World Heritage Foundation, a program to identify and protect "world heritage sites" -irreplaceable environments ranging from natural areas to whole urban centers. To date over 600 such sites have been designated for protection on four continents, including places of worship, monuments, living settlements, and historic com[Read More]