Bicycle Tours in Italy: Bicycling Venice to Florence

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Further Reading

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• 36 Hours in Venice
  Tour Leader, Sara Verlicchi, shares her favorite spots in Venice.
• Book review of Salt - with links to Venice
  Rich Young reviews the improbable bestseller Salt and finds it to his liking
• Book Review: A Novel of Hannibal
  Public policy generally changes slowly and reluctantly. Major changes, however, often occur in response to sudden catastrophic or cataclysmic events that act as catalysts for change. Hannibal's invasion of northern Italy is a case in point.
• Book Review: Attila: King of the Hun's
  Rick's review of Patrick Howarth's book, which will help you to understand the context of Venice and Ravenna fit between East and West during the last decades of the Roman Empire.
• Book review: Birth of Venus
  Paola reviews The Birth of Venus, set in Florence
• Book Review: Love and War in the Apennines
  Rick reviews Eric Newby's book about his WW2 adventures in Italy
• Book Review: Too Much Tuscan Sun
  Rick reviews this book, subtitled 'Confessions of Chianti Tour Guide', by Dario Castagno
• Emilia Romagna at 19 Km Per Hour
  Customer Chris Wesely shares her experiences riding across Italy.
• Family Bikes Across Italy
  ExperiencePlus! Computer Specialist, Ian Wells took his family on their first ever bicycle tour with ExperiencePlus! last June. Since they weren't exactly experienced cyclists, some members of the family were a little apprehensive about their adventure. Ian describes their experience.
• Meet a Cycling Great!
  How ExperiencePlus! customers met Aldo Ronconi, 1947 Tour stage winner, in a Bike Shop in Faenza, Italy.
• Packing Tips
  We've traveled enough and loaded enough luggage to have some useful suggestions to help you pack.
• Pre-tour training
  ExperiencePlus! has contracted with national fitness expert Joe Friel to create customized, day by day, training programs to ensure you are ready for your biking tour.
• Rick Reviews Tuscany's History and Geography
  Our own Rick Price, Ph.D., has prepared a brief introduction to the history and geography of Tuscany.
• Rick's suggestions for cycling maps of Italy
  
• Shopping Tips
  
• Three of the Many Faces of Italy
  Bicycle Tours through Tuscany, the Po Valley and Puglia.
• Understanding the Italian Landscape
  Rick's essay on Hannibal's effect on the history of Emilia Romagna.
• We Are ExperiencePlus! Meet your Tour Leaders
  We'd like to introduce you to your tour leaders. We believe we have the best bicycle tour leaders out there, click through to see a slideshow about them.
• What to do with 36 hours in Florence
  The museum lover and art history buff will have their own list of what to visit in Florence. But for those who want a brief overview of the city and its art treasures, this short guide by Rick Price will help.
• Women and Life in 16th-Century Venice
  Paola's book, Moderata Fonte, chronicles a woman's life in 16th century Venice

Elsewhere on the Web

• NPR's Splendid Table goes to Emilia-Romagna
  Listen to the October 8th audio track and see pictures as Lynne takes us behind the scenes as no one else can - into balsamic attics and kitchens of legendary country restaurants. She takes us to a town where people still set a place at table for the composer Verdi and his music spills out into the street.
• The city of Florence in Wikipedia
  
• The city of Venice in Wikipedia