best road map to navigate Tuscany?

annemarie, Michelin maps are usually a good bet, but I'd suggest you pack along a GPS unit as well. Cheers!

A very good GPS. We spent a week in May visit wineries in the country side. I am sure we could have done it with a map but it is far easier with GPS. The big issue is that once away from the main roads the roads are not well marked especially the intersections or round abouts. They may be well marked for the locals but doesn't have the same degree of signage that we come to expect in the US. Even with the GPS we had some problems. A big advantage to the GPS is that it always tells you where you are even if lost.

Try the Touring map from the Italian Auto Club, check Amazon.com. They have one for each provence. Very detailed that plus a GPS should do it.

We always take a Michelin map (the touring map from Amazon is also excellent). Take a highlighter and go over your route the night before - also use to circle route markers along the way (a town for example). GPS is all find and good until you come upon the dreaded - detour sign. Detour! That's the end of the route instructions - just detour!!! No where to go info, how to get there. We've just followed the rest of the cars and tracked ourselves on the map. GPS is great but it does have it's drawbacks (I find it best for more traveled routes). Oh, and that marking the map with route markers - if the road you're looking for was before Aix then you've gone to far. Signs on smaller roads can be difficult to see but if you know you're in the general area you can be really beady eyed looking for it. We did not find driving there in any way difficult except for the "freeways" and their abundance of trucks and I mean abundance.

My husband likes the Michelin spiral bound maps but we found our GPS to be invaluable.

The GPS we use handles detours very well. Just indicate that it is a detour and ask for alternative route. We hit several detours when we were in Tuscany and the GPS remember them for future routing.

You could pay my airplane ticket and I can be your navigator for Tuscany. Never got lost, and that was before GPS existed. I can be a GPS and Translator too. But after me, the second best is the TCI map.

I survived driving Italy without a GPS but it's THE reason I finally bought a GPS. Some quick examples: Trying to find our lodging in Verona. I asked at a gas station how to get there. The person told me to turn left across Ponte Campione. A half mile later, I turn the corner to see five bridges - not one of them with a road sign on them. Driving on the Autostrada there are no signs that say A-5 West to Florence. Instead there is a sign, right at the exit, that lists several small towns you never heard of. Unless you have memorized every town on your route, a map isn't going to help you make timely decisions. All streets have names but few streets have signage. Your GPS knows where you are at but good luck figuring it out on a map. If you miss an exit or make a wrong turn on the Autostrada, you lose 15 to 20 minutes getting to the next exit, paying your toll, finding a way on to the Autostrada going the opposite direction and getting back to where you were. Before that I'd driven around Europe, Asia, and all over North America and never felt like I needed a GPS. Fortunately, I learned enough Italian before my trip to ask directions often - even then it was nearly impossible to navigate. The signage in Italy is so bad you will regret not having a quality GPS every minute in Italy. Do yourself a favor, buy a decent GPS with European maps and learn how to use it before you pack it with you to Italy.