Did you know that pizza comes from Naples, and that Italians celebrate Carnival with a masquerade ball?

This edition is some 250 pages or so shorter, with many of the towns previously featured now missing. It has completely changed and is now very poor indeed - only the main tourist destinations are covered and much of the south of Italy is not included in the book. During winter, another little bird meets some new friends, and finally, the the story finishes in the spring in a full circle, right where it all began. With our extensive range of titles, we not only seek to enhance and to enrich our reader's lives, but to continually engage with the surrounding creative landscape. We’ve done it all—the good, the bad, the ugly, and the unforgettable—to bring our readers the most candid, witty, and irreverent travel advice available.

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