Central Tuscany: The Casentino and Valtiberina

After seeing the "biggies," you want to return to Tuscany to learn more about the culture and people. The best way to do this s to set up a base and visit the smaller less visited towns and sites.This is the fourth guidebook in the "Inside Tuscany: A Second Time Around Series" that focuses on the repeat visitor to Tuscany. Rather than go over the same ground that hundreds of other Tuscany guidebooks, this book features smaller places around central Tuscany. In this book you will find information on several sites and towns in central Tuscany including Poppi, Camaldoli Monastery, La Verna Sanctuary, Anghiari, Caprese Michelangelo, and Sansepolcro.Along with providing basic information on tourist sites, this guidebook:* provides extra information on several topic including a national park and background on Tuscany;* adds personal stories about traveling in Italy;* assumes that you are an experienced traveler;* includes authentic family recipes.Scott has been traveling in Italy since 1992 learning the towns, sites, foods, language, and culture of Tuscany. He writes with a unique perspective that comes from living in central Tuscany for a couple of months a year and from exploring with many of his native cousins. His cousins show him sites, restaurants, festivals, and markets that other writers miss. Realizing that he was going to travel yearly to Tuscany and that he needed to communicate with the relatives, he began studying the language in Arezzo schools and now gets by pretty well. He makes his base in Arezzo and learns more every year.