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Featuring over 190 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Corsica guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Discover a forgotten fresco by Marc Chagall in a mountain village, a magnificent American villa where you can spend the night, the superb Corsican beach used as a setting for the D-Day Normandy landings in The Longest Day movie, remarkable paintings by a civilian First World War PoW, a miniature village built with pebbles, golden hands embedded in the rock a two-hour walk into the mountains, a papier-mache statue of the Virgin Mary, an unusual pool-table pocket bearing the image of Napoleon, a brick from the Holy Door of a church in Rome, a confessional cleverly hidden behind woodwork, the world's largest citrus fruit collection, the painting of an eagle under a balcony, a Bonaparte family tree made from locks of hair, a sleepover in a lighthouse far from civilisation... Corsica is far from the holiday cliches of beaches, mountains and gastronomy.

Forfattere: Dominique Memmi
Publisert måned: Juni
Publisert år: 2023
Sider nr: 256

This guidebook describes 38 walking routes in Ticino, the Swiss canton with a Mediterranean twist. Towering snowcapped mountains and lush, narrow valleys overlook stylish lakeside resorts with palm-fringed promenades and handsome Italianate architecture. It's not just the Italian language that sets Ticino apart: the food, sunny weather and stunning landscapes attract millions of visitors to this part of the southern Alps every year.

As for the walks, it's the variety - as much as the fabulous scenery - that provides the draw. In this book you'll find everything from level walks along the shores of Lakes Lugano and Maggiore, to more challenging trails through craggy, forested valleys with gushing waterfalls and ancient stone-built villages, to isolated mountain huts right at the permanent snowline. If you think you already know Switzerland, but haven't walked in Ticino, a stunning experience awaits you - and all of the routes are easily accessible through a network of buses, trains, funiculars, cable cars and chairlifts.

• Forfatter: Andrew Beattie
• Publisert: Jan 2023
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• Antall sider: 264
• ISBN: 9781786310606

Publisert år: 2018

Innbinding: falset
Material: plastfiber
Målestokk: 1:50000