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Europe
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
4
TH EDITION
Europe For Dummies, 4th Edition
Published by
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
111 River St.
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
www.wiley.com
Copyright © 2007 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
Published simultaneously in Canada
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
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United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. Frommer’s is a trade-
mark or registered trademark of Arthur Frommer. Used under license. All other trademarks are the prop-
erty of their respective owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor
mentioned in this book.
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: THE PUBLISHER AND THE AUTHOR MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF
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OUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO WARRANTY MAY BE
CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES OR PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS. THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES
CONTAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERY SITUATION. THIS WORK IS SOLD WITH THE
UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PUBLISHER IS NOT ENGAGED IN RENDERING LEGAL, ACCOUNTING,
OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. IF PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED, THE SERVICES
OF A COMPETENT PROFESSIONAL PERSON SHOULD BE SOUGHT. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR
THE AUTHOR SHALL BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING HEREFROM. THE FACT THAT AN ORGA-
NIZATION OR WEBSITE IS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK AS A CITATION AND/OR A POTENTIAL
SOURCE OF FURTHER INFORMATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE AUTHOR OR THE PUBLISHER
ENDORSES THE INFORMATION THE ORGANIZATION OR WEB SITE MAY PROVIDE OR RECOMMEN-
DATIONS IT MAY MAKE. FURTHER, READERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT INTERNET WEB SITES LISTED
IN THIS WORK MAY HAVE CHANGED OR DISAPPEARED BETWEEN WHEN THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN
AND WHEN IT IS READ.
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT TRAVEL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME AND THIS
IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OF PRICES. WE THEREFORE SUGGEST THAT READERS WRITE OR CALL AHEAD
FOR CONFIRMATION WHEN MAKING TRAVEL PLANS. THE AUTHOR AND THE PUBLISHER CANNOT
BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXPERIENCES OF READERS WHILE TRAVELING.
For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care
Department within the U.S. at 800-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002.
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ISBN: 978-0-470-06933-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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About the Authors
Donald Olson
(Chapters 1–11 and 15) is a novelist, playwright,
and travel writer. His newest novel,
Confessions of a Pregnant
Prince
ss
,
was published in 2005 under the pen name Swan
Adamson. His travel stories have appeared in
The New York Times,
Travel & Leisure, Sunset, National Geographic
books, and many
other publications. His guidebooks
London For Dummies
,
Frommer’s Best Day Trips from London, Frommer’s Irreverent
London, Germany For Dummies,
and
Frommer’s Vancouver &
Victoria
are all published by Wiley. He also writes
England For
Dummies,
which won a 2002 Lowell Thomas Travel Writing Award
for best guidebook.
Liz Albertson
(Chapter 12) worked as an editor for Frommer’s
Travel Guides for four years before making the leap to the other
side of the computer as the author of
Ireland For Dummies.
When
she isn’t researching and writing, Liz spends much of her time in
Ireland sitting in on traditional music sessions, fiddle in hand. She
currently teaches fifth and sixth grade in New Haven, Connecticut.
Cheryl A. Pientka
(Chapter 13) is a freelance journalist and a liter-
ary scout. She is the author of
Paris For Dummies
and co-author of
France For Dummies
. A graduate of Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and the University of Delaware, she lives in
New York when she can’t be in Paris.
George McDonald
(Chapter 14) is a former deputy editor of and
currently contributing writer for
Holland Herald,
the in-flight maga-
zine for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He has written extensively about
Amsterdam and the Netherlands for international magazines and
travel books such as
Frommer’s Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg
and
Frommer’s Europe.
Darwin Porter
and
Danforth Prince
(Chapters 16 and 17) have
written numerous best-selling Frommer’s guides and are co-
authors of
Frommer’s Europe
. Porter is a former bureau chief for
the
Miami Herald,
and Prince, who began writing with Porter in
1982, worked for the Paris bureau of the
New York Times.
Hana Mastrini
(Chapter 18) is a native of the western Czech spa
town of Karlovy Vary who became a veteran of the “Velvet
Revolution” as a student in Prague in 1989. She is the author of
Frommer’s Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic
and co-author
of
Frommer’s Europe
and
Frommer’s Europe by Rail.
Bruce Murphy
and
Alessandra de Rosa
(Chapters 19–21) are part-
time residents of Rome. Murphy’s work has appeared in magazines
ranging from
Cruising World
to
Critical Inquiry.
An avid traveler
since her first cross-Europe trip at the age of 2, de Rosa was born
in Rome and has lived and worked in Rome, Paris, and New York
City. They are the authors of
Italy For Dummies
and
Rome For
Dummies.
Neil Schlecht
(Chapters 22 and 23) is a writer and cycling afi-
cionado who has lived in Spain, Brazil, and Ecuador. He has
worked in Spain as an English teacher, a consultant on social and
economic development projects for the European Union, and as a
contributing writer for a Spanish art and antiques magazine. He is
the author of a dozen travel guides, including
Spain For Dummies.
Vancouver-born
Tania Kollias
(Chapter 24) longed to travel since
a teen trip to England to meet the relatives, and used a Frommer’s
guide for her first solo journey to Europe. A degree, four conti-
nents, and many journals later, she now lives in her father’s native
Athens, Greece, where she wrote the country’s first comprehen-
sive listings book for expats, edited the
Now in Athens
monthly for
the 2004 Olympics, and still works as a journalist and writer. She
travels in and out of Greece whenever she gets the chance.
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our Dummies
online registration form located at
www.dummies.com/register/
.
Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:
Editorial
Editors:
Michael Brumitt, Production
Editor; Michael Kelly,
Development Editor
Copy Editor:
Anne Owen
Cartographer:
Guy Ruggiero
Editorial Assistant:
Melinda Quintero
Senior Photo Editor:
Richard Fox
Cover Photos:
Front: © Larry Fisher/
Masterfile; back: © John Lawrence/
Getty Images
Cartoons:
Rich Tennant
(
www.the5thwave.com
)
Composition Services
Project Coordinator:
Kristie Rees
Layout and Graphics:
Stephanie D. Jumper,
Barry Offringa,
Alicia B. South, Julie Trippetti
Special Art: Anniversary Logo
Design:
Richard Pacifico
Proofreaders:
David Faust, Techbooks
Indexer:
Techbooks
Publishing and Editorial for Consumer Dummies
Diane Graves Steele,
Vice President and Publisher, Consumer Dummies
Joyce Pepple,
Acquisitions Director, Consumer Dummies
Kristin A. Cocks,
Product Development Director, Consumer Dummies
Michael Spring,
Vice President and Publisher, Travel
Kelly Regan,
Editorial Director, Travel
Publishing for Technology Dummies
Andy Cummings,
Vice President and Publisher, Dummies
Technology/General User
Composition Services
Gerry Fahey,
Vice President of Production Services
Debbie Stailey,
Director of Composition Services
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Europe
FOR
DUMmIES
‰
4
TH EDITION
Europe For Dummies, 4th Edition
Published by
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
111 River St.
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
www.wiley.com
Copyright © 2007 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
Published simultaneously in Canada
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permit-
ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written
permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the
Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600.
Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing,
www.wiley.com/go/permissions.
Trademarks:
Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the
Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com and related trade
dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and/or its affiliates in the
United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. Frommer’s is a trade-
mark or registered trademark of Arthur Frommer. Used under license. All other trademarks are the prop-
erty of their respective owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor
mentioned in this book.
LIMIT OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
: THE PUBLISHER AND THE AUTHOR MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF
THE CONTENTS OF THIS WORK AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITH-
OUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NO WARRANTY MAY BE
CREATED OR EXTENDED BY SALES OR PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS. THE ADVICE AND STRATEGIES
CONTAINED HEREIN MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR EVERY SITUATION. THIS WORK IS SOLD WITH THE
UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PUBLISHER IS NOT ENGAGED IN RENDERING LEGAL, ACCOUNTING,
OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. IF PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED, THE SERVICES
OF A COMPETENT PROFESSIONAL PERSON SHOULD BE SOUGHT. NEITHER THE PUBLISHER NOR
THE AUTHOR SHALL BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING HEREFROM. THE FACT THAT AN ORGA-
NIZATION OR WEBSITE IS REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK AS A CITATION AND/OR A POTENTIAL
SOURCE OF FURTHER INFORMATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE AUTHOR OR THE PUBLISHER
ENDORSES THE INFORMATION THE ORGANIZATION OR WEB SITE MAY PROVIDE OR RECOMMEN-
DATIONS IT MAY MAKE. FURTHER, READERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT INTERNET WEB SITES LISTED
IN THIS WORK MAY HAVE CHANGED OR DISAPPEARED BETWEEN WHEN THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN
AND WHEN IT IS READ.
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT TRAVEL INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME AND THIS
IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OF PRICES. WE THEREFORE SUGGEST THAT READERS WRITE OR CALL AHEAD
FOR CONFIRMATION WHEN MAKING TRAVEL PLANS. THE AUTHOR AND THE PUBLISHER CANNOT
BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXPERIENCES OF READERS WHILE TRAVELING.
For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care
Department within the U.S. at 800-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002.
For technical support, please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport.
Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may
not be available in electronic books.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006936834
ISBN: 978-0-470-06933-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
4B/SX/RS/QW/IN
About the Authors
Donald Olson
(Chapters 1–11 and 15) is a novelist, playwright,
and travel writer. His newest novel,
Confessions of a Pregnant
Prince
ss
,
was published in 2005 under the pen name Swan
Adamson. His travel stories have appeared in
The New York Times,
Travel & Leisure, Sunset, National Geographic
books, and many
other publications. His guidebooks
London For Dummies
,
Frommer’s Best Day Trips from London, Frommer’s Irreverent
London, Germany For Dummies,
and
Frommer’s Vancouver &
Victoria
are all published by Wiley. He also writes
England For
Dummies,
which won a 2002 Lowell Thomas Travel Writing Award
for best guidebook.
Liz Albertson
(Chapter 12) worked as an editor for Frommer’s
Travel Guides for four years before making the leap to the other
side of the computer as the author of
Ireland For Dummies.
When
she isn’t researching and writing, Liz spends much of her time in
Ireland sitting in on traditional music sessions, fiddle in hand. She
currently teaches fifth and sixth grade in New Haven, Connecticut.
Cheryl A. Pientka
(Chapter 13) is a freelance journalist and a liter-
ary scout. She is the author of
Paris For Dummies
and co-author of
France For Dummies
. A graduate of Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and the University of Delaware, she lives in
New York when she can’t be in Paris.
George McDonald
(Chapter 14) is a former deputy editor of and
currently contributing writer for
Holland Herald,
the in-flight maga-
zine for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He has written extensively about
Amsterdam and the Netherlands for international magazines and
travel books such as
Frommer’s Belgium, Holland & Luxembourg
and
Frommer’s Europe.
Darwin Porter
and
Danforth Prince
(Chapters 16 and 17) have
written numerous best-selling Frommer’s guides and are co-
authors of
Frommer’s Europe
. Porter is a former bureau chief for
the
Miami Herald,
and Prince, who began writing with Porter in
1982, worked for the Paris bureau of the
New York Times.
Hana Mastrini
(Chapter 18) is a native of the western Czech spa
town of Karlovy Vary who became a veteran of the “Velvet
Revolution” as a student in Prague in 1989. She is the author of
Frommer’s Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic
and co-author
of
Frommer’s Europe
and
Frommer’s Europe by Rail.
Bruce Murphy
and
Alessandra de Rosa
(Chapters 19–21) are part-
time residents of Rome. Murphy’s work has appeared in magazines
ranging from
Cruising World
to
Critical Inquiry.
An avid traveler
since her first cross-Europe trip at the age of 2, de Rosa was born
in Rome and has lived and worked in Rome, Paris, and New York
City. They are the authors of
Italy For Dummies
and
Rome For
Dummies.
Neil Schlecht
(Chapters 22 and 23) is a writer and cycling afi-
cionado who has lived in Spain, Brazil, and Ecuador. He has
worked in Spain as an English teacher, a consultant on social and
economic development projects for the European Union, and as a
contributing writer for a Spanish art and antiques magazine. He is
the author of a dozen travel guides, including
Spain For Dummies.
Vancouver-born
Tania Kollias
(Chapter 24) longed to travel since
a teen trip to England to meet the relatives, and used a Frommer’s
guide for her first solo journey to Europe. A degree, four conti-
nents, and many journals later, she now lives in her father’s native
Athens, Greece, where she wrote the country’s first comprehen-
sive listings book for expats, edited the
Now in Athens
monthly for
the 2004 Olympics, and still works as a journalist and writer. She
travels in and out of Greece whenever she gets the chance.
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our Dummies
online registration form located at
www.dummies.com/register/
.
Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following:
Editorial
Editors:
Michael Brumitt, Production
Editor; Michael Kelly,
Development Editor
Copy Editor:
Anne Owen
Cartographer:
Guy Ruggiero
Editorial Assistant:
Melinda Quintero
Senior Photo Editor:
Richard Fox
Cover Photos:
Front: © Larry Fisher/
Masterfile; back: © John Lawrence/
Getty Images
Cartoons:
Rich Tennant
(
www.the5thwave.com
)
Composition Services
Project Coordinator:
Kristie Rees
Layout and Graphics:
Stephanie D. Jumper,
Barry Offringa,
Alicia B. South, Julie Trippetti
Special Art: Anniversary Logo
Design:
Richard Pacifico
Proofreaders:
David Faust, Techbooks
Indexer:
Techbooks
Publishing and Editorial for Consumer Dummies
Diane Graves Steele,
Vice President and Publisher, Consumer Dummies
Joyce Pepple,
Acquisitions Director, Consumer Dummies
Kristin A. Cocks,
Product Development Director, Consumer Dummies
Michael Spring,
Vice President and Publisher, Travel
Kelly Regan,
Editorial Director, Travel
Publishing for Technology Dummies
Andy Cummings,
Vice President and Publisher, Dummies
Technology/General User
Composition Services
Gerry Fahey,
Vice President of Production Services
Debbie Stailey,
Director of Composition Services
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