`It offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for
leisurely sight-seeing will require.' Financial Times`If ever a
guidebook were designed to be read as literature it is Mr Honour's. Even
those who know Venice welland love it well will add to their
appreciation from this seemingly endless store of information.'
Economist
Offers all that the visitor with a concern for beauty and for leisurely
sight-seeing will require. FINANCIAL TIMES
The best guide book I have ever encountered... and a book I found it
impossible not to read from beginning to end. OBSERVER
There are few pleasanter ways of passing a summer's evening than sitting
over a cup of coffee, and perhaps a glass of Aurum, in the Piazza San
Marco. It is especially agreeable on those nights when the Venetian city
band thunders away at some throbbingly romantic piece... And all the
while the younger inhabitants parade around the square, chattering,
flirting, quarrelling and staring at their visitors with that same
unwinking gaze that Venetians have turned on their guests for the past
five centuries. The facade of San Marco closes the scene in a glitter of
golden mosaic and a bubbling of cupolas, while the great thick red
campanile stretches up into the warm mothy darkness of the summer sky.
Hugh Honour, it is clear, knows Venice exceptionally well and catches
the rhythms of the city's life with unerring skill. His guide, with its
winning blend of evocativedetail and precise information, spurs the
reader to investigate Venice's wonders: Piazza San Marco is only the
beginning of a journey into the heart of Venice and its history.
