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I watched this video a short back while after selecting from a stack of five videos I had collected to begin planning a trip to Italy in 2001. I selected this one to watch first, as I wanted to see a Bertalucci film the same evening and this one was relatively brief. I'd give it points for covering some of the lesser known areas of Tuscany and showing a map along the route as the "journey" through Tuscany progresses. The photography is nice, but not very exciting,(how can you miss with that countryside?), and some topics are almost too briefly touched on. But, if you haven't traveled to Tuscany before, or just want to get a better feel for some of the less known and not as frequently mentioned villages and towns this is a very good start. That's why they call the series "The Back Roads". It is not as slick or informative as Fodor's videos, but it is also not as expensive, I'm relatively sure. It is also more of a succint, but educational, thumbnail sketch of lesser known locations from a cultural, historical and geographic perspective. I did not purchase this video because I was able to check it out of my local library, but it has obviously been well-used and I do not think that the Amazon purchase price is at all unreasonable.