search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Lonely Planet Western Europe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Authors
9
7
This Book
16
1
Foreword
17
4
Introduction
21
1
Facts for the Visitor
22
28
Highlights
22
1
Planning
22
5
Responsible Tourism
27
1
Visas & Documents
27
2
Embassies & Consulates
29
1
Customs
30
1
Money
30
3
Post & Communications
33
2
Internet Resources
35
1
Newspapers & Magazines
35
1
Radio & TV
35
1
Video Systems
35
1
Photography & Video
35
1
Time
36
1
Electricity
36
1
Health
36
6
Women Travellers
42
1
Gay & Lesbian Travellers
42
1
Disabled Travellers
42
1
Senior Travellers
42
1
Travel with Children
43
1
Dangers & Annoyances
43
1
Activities
43
2
Courses
45
1
Work
45
1
Accommodation
46
2
Food
48
2
Getting There & Away
50
7
Air
50
5
Land
55
1
Sea
56
1
Departure Tax
56
1
Getting Around
57
10
Air
57
1
Bus
57
1
Train
58
3
Car & Motorcycle
61
3
Taxi
64
1
Bicycle
64
1
Hitching
65
1
Boat
65
1
Organised Tours
66
1
Andorra
67
8
Facts for the Visitor
67
2
Getting There & Away
69
1
Getting Around
70
5
Andorra La Vella
70
3
Around Andorra La Vella
73
2
Austria
75
58
Facts about Austria
75
4
Facts for the Visitor
79
7
Getting There & Away
86
1
Getting Around
86
16
Vienna
88
14
The Danube Valley
102
1
Krems
102
1
Durnstein
103
1
Melk
103
1
Linz
104
1
The South
105
1
Graz
105
3
Around Graz
108
1
Klagenfurt
108
8
Salzburg
109
7
Around Salzburg
116
2
Salzkammergut
117
1
Bad Ischl
118
1
Hallstatt
119
1
Wolfgangsee
120
1
Northern Salzkammergut
121
1
Tirol
122
1
Innsburck
122
5
Kitzbuhel
127
1
Kufstein
128
1
Lienz
128
1
Hohe Tauern National Park
129
1
Vorarlberg
130
1
Bregenz
130
1
Feldkirch
131
1
Arlberg Region
131
2
Belgium
133
36
Facts about Belgium
133
4
Facts for the Visitor
137
5
Getting There & Away
142
1
Getting Around
143
7
Brussels
144
6
Around Brussels
150
11
Antwerp
150
4
Ghent
154
3
Bruges
157
4
Around Bruges
161
1
Ypres
161
4
Tournai
162
1
Liege
163
2
Around Liege
165
1
The Ardennes
165
1
Namur
165
1
Dinant
166
1
Han-sur-Lesse & Rochefort
166
1
La Roche-en-Ardenne
167
1
Bastogne
167
2
Britain
169
152
Facts about Britain
169
7
Facts for the Visitor
176
13
Getting There & Away
189
3
Getting Around
192
4
England
196
1
London
196
28
Around London
224
2
South-East England
225
1
Canterbury
226
1
Dover
227
2
Hever Castle
229
1
Knole House
229
1
Leeds Castle
229
1
Brighton
229
3
Portsmouth
232
1
Winchester
233
1
Channel Islands
234
2
South-West England
234
2
Salisbury
236
1
Stonehenge
237
1
Avebury
237
1
Dorest
237
1
Exeter
238
1
Plymouth
238
1
Dartmoor National Park
239
1
South Cornwall Coast
240
1
West Cornwall Coast
240
1
North Devon
241
1
Bath
242
3
Around Bath
245
1
Wells
245
1
Glastonbury
245
1
Bristol
246
3
Central England
248
1
Oxford
249
3
Blenheim Place
252
1
Stratford-upon-Avon
252
1
Cotswolds
253
1
Birmingham
254
1
Althorp
254
1
Shrewsbury
254
1
Around Shrewsbury
255
1
Peak District
256
1
East England
256
1
Cambridge
257
4
Ely
261
1
Lincolnshire
261
1
Norfolk
261
1
Suffolk
261
1
North-East England
261
1
York
262
4
Around York
266
1
North York Moors National Park
266
2
Durham
268
1
Newcastle upon Tyne
269
1
Northumberland
270
1
Yorkshire Dales
271
1
North-West England
272
1
Manchester
272
2
Chester
274
1
Liverpool
275
2
Isle of Man
277
1
Lake District
277
2
Carlisle
279
1
Scotland
280
1
Facts about Scotland
280
3
Facts for the Visitor
283
3
Getting There & Away
286
1
Getting Around
287
1
Edinburgh
288
6
Glasgow
294
5
South-West Scotland
299
1
South-East Scotland
300
1
Stirling
301
1
St Andrews
301
1
Eastern Highlands
302
2
Western Highlands
304
1
Nth Highlands & Islands
305
6
Wales
311
1
Facts about Wales
311
2
Facts for the Visitor
313
1
Getting Around
314
1
South Wales
314
2
South-West Wales
316
1
Mid-Wales
317
1
North Wales
317
4
France
321
140
Facts about France
321
6
Facts for the Visitor
327
9
Getting There & Away
336
1
Getting Around
337
27
Paris
339
22
Around Paris
361
2
Alsace & Lorraine
363
1
Strasbourg
364
4
Colmar
368
1
Route du Vin
369
1
Massif des Vosges
369
1
Nancy
369
1
Far Northern France
370
1
Lille
370
2
Calais
372
2
Dunkerque
374
1
Battle of the Somme Memorials
374
1
Normandy
375
1
Rouen
375
2
Bayeux
377
2
D-Day Beaches
379
1
Mont St Michel
379
3
Brittany
380
2
Quimper
382
2
Around Quimper
384
1
Saint Malo
384
3
Around Saint Malo
387
1
Loire Valley
387
1
Blois
387
3
Blois Area Chateaux
390
2
Tours
392
3
Tours Area Chateaux
395
1
South-Western France
396
1
La Rochelle
396
1
Bordeaux
397
4
Bordeaux Vineyards
401
1
The Medoc
401
1
Arcachon
402
1
Bayonne
402
2
Biarritz
404
1
Around Biarritz
405
1
Lourdes
405
1
The Dordogne
406
1
Perigueux
406
1
Sarlat-la-Caneda
407
1
Vezere Valley
407
1
South-West of Sarlat
408
1
Quercy
408
1
Cahors
408
1
Around Cahors
409
1
Burgundy & the Rhone
409
1
Dijon
409
4
Cote d'Or
413
1
Lyon
413
5
The French Alps
418
1
Chamonix
418
5
Annecy
423
2
Grenoble
425
3
Provence
428
1
Marseille
428
4
Around Marseille
432
1
Avignon
433
3
Around Avignon
436
1
Cote d'Azur
436
1
Nice
437
4
Cannes
441
3
St Tropez
444
1
Menton
445
3
Monaco
445
3
Languedoc-Roussillon
448
1
Montpellier
448
1
Nimes
449
1
Around Nimes
449
1
Carcassonne
450
1
Toulouse
450
2
Corsica
452
1
Ajaccio
452
3
Bastia
455
2
Calvi
457
1
Porto
458
1
Corte
458
2
Bonifacio
460
1
Germany
461
166
Facts about Germany
461
10
Facts for the Visitor
471
10
Getting There & Away
481
1
Getting Around
482
29
Berlin
486
25
Brandenburg
511
1
Potsdam
511
3
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
514
1
Saxony
514
1
Dresden
514
4
Around Dresden
518
1
Leipzig
519
3
Gorlitz
522
1
Thuringia
522
1
Erfurt
523
2
Weimar
525
3
Around Weimar
528
1
Eisenach
528
2
Saxony-Anhalt
529
1
Wernigerode
530
1
Quedlinburg
531
1
Magdeburg
531
1
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
532
1
Halle
533
1
Naumburg
534
1
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
534
1
Schwerin
535
1
Wismar
536
1
Rostock
537
2
Around Rostock
539
1
Stralsund
539
2
Rugen Island
541
1
Hiddensee Island
542
1
Bavaria
542
1
Munich
542
9
Augsburg
551
1
Romantic Road
551
3
Wurzburg
554
1
Bamberg
554
1
Nuremberg
555
2
Regensburg
557
1
Passau
558
1
Bavarian Alps
559
4
Baden-Wurttemberg
562
1
Stuttgart
563
2
Around Stuttgart
565
1
Heidelberg
565
3
Baden-Baden
568
2
Black Forest
570
3
Freiburg
573
2
Danube River
575
1
Ulm
575
1
Lake Constance
576
2
Rhineland-Palatinate
578
1
The Moselle Valley
578
3
Trier
581
2
Rhine Valley - Koblenz to Mainz
583
1
Saarland
584
1
Saarbrucken
584
2
Hesse
585
1
Frankfurt/Main
586
6
Marburg
592
1
North Rhine-Westphalia
592
1
Cologne
592
6
Around Cologne
598
1
Dusseldorf
599
2
Aachen
601
3
Bremen
603
1
Bremen
604
2
Lower Saxony
606
1
Hanover
606
1
Fairy-Tale Road
607
1
Gottingen
608
1
Goslar
609
1
Western Harz Mountains
610
10
Hamburg
612
7
Schleswig-Holstein
619
1
Lubeck
620
1
Kiel
621
2
North Frisian Islands
623
2
Heligoland
625
2
Greece
627
82
Facts about Greece
627
8
Facts for the Visitor
635
8
Getting There & Away
643
1
Getting Around
644
17
Athens
647
11
Around Athens
658
2
The Peloponnese
660
1
Patras
661
1
Diakofto-Kalavryta Railway
662
1
Corinth
662
1
Ancient Corinth & Acrocorinth
663
1
Nafplio
663
1
Epidaurus
663
1
Mycenae
664
1
Sparta
664
1
Mystras
664
1
Monemvasia
665
1
Gythio
665
1
The Mani
666
1
Olympia
666
1
Central Greece
667
1
Delphi
667
2
Northern Greece
669
1
Igoumenitsa
669
1
Ioannina
669
1
Zagoria & Vikos Gorge
670
1
Trikala
670
1
Meteora
670
1
Thessaloniki
671
3
Halkidiki
674
1
Mt Olympus
674
1
Alexandroupolis
675
1
Saronic Gulf Islands
675
1
Aegina
675
1
Poros
675
1
Hydra
676
1
Spetses
676
1
Cyclades
676
1
Mykonos
676
2
Delos
678
1
Paros
678
2
Naxos
680
2
Ios
682
1
Santorini
683
4
Crete
685
2
Iraklio
687
2
Knossos
689
1
Phaestos & other Minoan Sites
689
1
Hania
689
2
The West Coast
691
1
Samaria Gorge
691
1
Lefka Ori
691
1
Paleohora & the South-West Coast
691
1
Rethymno
692
1
Lassithi Plateau
692
1
Sitia
693
1
Around Sitia
693
1
Dodecanese
693
1
Rhodes
693
4
Symi
697
1
Karpathos
698
1
Kos
698
1
Patmos
699
1
Kastellorizo
700
1
North-Eastern Aegean Islands
700
1
Samos
700
2
Chios
702
1
Lesvos
703
1
Samothraki
704
1
Sporades
704
1
Skiathos
704
1
Skopelos
705
1
Alonnisos
705
1
Ionian Islands
706
1
Corfu
706
2
Ithaki
708
1
Kefallonia
708
1
Zakynthos
708
1
Ireland
709
64
Facts about Ireland
709
7
Facts for the Visitor
716
6
Getting There & Away
722
1
Getting Around
723
14
Dublin
725
12
Around Dublin
737
1
The South-East
737
1
County Wicklow
737
1
Wexford
738
2
Rosslare Harbour
740
1
Waterford
740
1
Kilkenny
741
1
Around Kilkenny
742
1
Cashel
743
1
The South-West
743
1
Cork
743
3
Around Cork
746
1
West County Cork
747
2
The West Coast
749
1
Killarney
749
2
The Ring of Kerry
751
1
The Dingle Peninsula
752
1
Limerick
753
1
The Burren
753
1
Galway
754
3
Aran Islands
757
2
Connemara
759
1
Westport
760
1
The North-West
760
1
Sligo
760
1
Donegal
761
1
Around Donegal
761
1
Northern Ireland
762
1
Belfast
762
5
Belfast-Derry Coastal Road
767
1
Derry
768
2
Enniskillen & Lough Erne
770
3
Italy
773
110
Facts about Italy
773
6
Facts for the Visitor
779
9
Getting There & Away
788
1
Getting Around
789
24
Rome
790
21
Around Rome
811
2
Northern Italy
813
1
Genoa
813
1
Riviera di Levante
814
1
Turin
815
1
Milan
816
5
Mantua
821
1
Verona
822
1
Padua
823
1
Venice
824
11
Ferrara
835
1
Bologna
835
2
Ravenna
837
1
San Marino
838
2
The Dolomites
838
2
Cortina d'Ampezzo
840
1
Canazei
840
1
Val Gardena
840
1
San Martino di Castrozza
840
1
Central Italy
840
1
Florence
840
10
Pisa
850
1
Siena
851
3
San Gimignano
854
1
Certaldo
854
1
Umbria
854
1
Perugia
854
3
Assisi
857
1
Ancona
858
1
Urbino
858
1
Southern Italy
859
1
Naples
859
4
Around Naples
863
1
Sorrento
864
1
Capri
865
1
Amalfi Coast
866
1
Paestum
867
1
Matera
867
1
Apulia
868
2
Sicily
869
1
Palermo
870
3
Aeolian Islands
873
1
Taormina
874
1
Etna
875
1
Syracuse
875
1
Agrigento
876
2
Sardinia
877
1
Cagliari
878
2
Cala Gonone
880
1
Alghero
880
3
Liechtenstein
883
4
Facts about Liechtenstein
883
1
Facts for the Visitor
884
1
Getting There & Away
884
1
Getting Around
884
2
Vaduz
884
2
Around Vaduz
886
1
Malbun
886
1
Luxembourg
887
16
Facts about Luxembourg
887
2
Facts for the Visitor
889
4
Getting There & Away
893
1
Getting Around
894
5
Luxembourg City
894
5
Around Luxembourg
899
1
Moselle Valley
899
1
Central Luxembourg
899
1
Mullerthal
900
1
The Ardennes
900
3
The Netherlands
903
40
Facts about the Netherlands
903
4
Facts for the Visitor
907
7
Getting There & Away
914
1
Getting Around
915
11
Amsterdam
917
9
Around Amsterdam
926
1
The Randstad
927
1
Haarlem
927
1
Keukenof
928
1
Leiden
928
2
The Hague
930
2
Delft
932
2
Rotterdam
934
1
Around Rotterdam
935
1
Gouda
935
1
Utrecht
936
2
Arnhem & the Hoge Veluwe
937
1
The Delta Region
937
1
Middelburg
938
1
Around Middelburg
938
1
Willemstad
938
1
The North
939
1
Afsluitdijk
939
1
Leeuwarden
939
1
Groningen
939
1
Frisian Islands
939
1
The South-East
940
1
Den Bosch
940
1
Maastricht
941
2
Portugal
943
42
Facts about Portugal
943
3
Facts for the Visitor
946
8
Getting There & Away
954
1
Getting Around
955
13
Lisbon
957
8
Around Lisbon
965
2
The Algarve
967
1
Faro
968
1
Tavira
969
1
Lagos
969
1
Monchique
970
1
Silves
970
1
Sagres
970
1
Central Portugal
971
1
Evora
971
2
Monsaraz
973
1
Estremoz
973
1
Castelo de Vide & Marvao
973
1
Nazare
974
1
Alcobaca
974
1
Batalha
974
1
Obidos
974
1
Coimbra
975
1
Luso & the Bucaco Forest
976
1
Serra da Estrela
976
1
The North
977
1
Porto
977
5
Along the Douro
982
1
Viana do Castelo
982
1
Braga
982
1
Peneda-Geres National Park
983
2
Spain
985
110
Facts about Spain
985
6
Facts for the Visitor
991
10
Getting There & Away
1001
1
Getting Around
1002
17
Madrid
1004
14
Around Madrid
1018
1
Castilla y Leon
1019
1
Segovia
1019
1
Around Segovia
1020
1
Avila
1020
1
Burgos
1021
1
Salamanca
1022
2
Leon
1024
2
Around Leon
1026
1
Castilla-La Mancha
1026
1
Toledo
1026
3
Cuenca
1029
1
Catalunya
1030
1
Barcelona
1030
11
Monestir de Montserrat
1041
1
Costa Brava
1042
1
Tarragona
1043
4
Balearic Islands
1046
1
Mallorca
1047
3
Ibiza
1050
1
Formentera
1051
1
Menorca
1052
1
Valencia
1053
1
Valencia
1053
4
Inland Valencia
1057
1
Alicante
1057
3
Costa Blanca
1060
1
Andalucia
1061
1
Seville
1061
5
Cordoba
1066
2
Granada
1068
3
Costa de Almeria
1071
1
Malaga
1072
1
Ronda
1072
1
Algeciras
1073
1
Cadiz, Tarifa & the Costa de la Luz
1073
4
Gibraltar
1074
2
Extremadura
1076
1
Trujillo
1077
1
Caceres
1077
1
Merida
1078
1
North-East Extremadura
1079
1
Galicia, Astrias & Cantabria
1080
1
Santiago de Compostela
1080
2
Rias Bajas
1082
1
La Coruna
1083
1
Rias Altas
1083
1
Picos de Europa
1083
1
Santander
1084
1
Santillana del Mar
1085
1
Pais Vasco, Navarra & Aragon
1085
1
San Sebastian
1086
2
Costa Vasca
1088
1
Bilbao
1089
1
Pamplona
1089
1
Zaragoza
1090
2
Teruel
1092
3
Switzerland
1095
57
Facts about Switzerland
1095
6
Facts for the Visitor
1101
7
Getting There & Away
1108
1
Getting Around
1109
6
Bern
1111
4
Around Bern
1115
1
Neuchatel
1115
1
Around Neuchatel
1116
7
Geneva
1116
7
Lake Geneva Region
1123
1
Lausanne
1123
2
Montreux
1125
1
Vaud Alps
1126
1
Valais
1127
1
Sion
1127
1
Zermatt
1127
1
Saas Fee
1128
1
Other Resorts
1128
1
Ticino
1128
1
Bellinzona
1129
1
Locarno
1129
1
Lugano
1130
2
Graubunden
1131
1
Chur
1132
1
St Moritz
1132
2
Around St Moritz
1134
13
Zurich
1134
6
Central Switzerland
1140
1
Lucerne
1140
3
Interlaken
1143
2
Jungfrau Region
1145
2
Northern Switzerland
1147
1
Basel
1147
2
Solothurn
1149
1
Schaffhausen
1149
1
St Gallen
1150
1
Appenzell
1151
1
APPENDICES
1152
11
Climate Charts
1152
2
Telephones
1154
2
European Organisations
1156
3
Alternative Place Names
1159
3
International Country Abbreviations
1162
1
Language
1163
13
Acknowledgments
1176
15
Index
1191