25 Best Bets in Barcelona - Plus a Full Color, Pull-Out Map And the Best of the Rest including:
Best tapas bars and cafés • Best museums and galleries • Best modernisme architecture • Best plaças, parks, and gardens • Best Catalan music and dance • Best beaches and byways
Everything you need to explore this dynamic city on the shores of the Mediterranean
· Top lodging and dining picks for every budget
· Galleries featuring the art of Joan Miró
· Architecture, from Catalan Gothic cathedrals to Gaudi\'s modernisme buildings
· Fiestas, processions, and bullfights
· The flourishing cultural scenes, with world-class museums
· Best attractions for children, including playgrouds, zoos, and state-of-the-art aquarium
· Excursions to the holy mountain of Montserrat and the beach resort of Sitges
Best tapas bars and cafés • Best museums and galleries • Best modernisme architecture • Best plaças, parks, and gardens • Best Catalan music and dance • Best beaches and byways
Everything you need to explore this dynamic city on the shores of the Mediterranean
· Top lodging and dining picks for every budget
· Galleries featuring the art of Joan Miró
· Architecture, from Catalan Gothic cathedrals to Gaudi\'s modernisme buildings
· Fiestas, processions, and bullfights
· The flourishing cultural scenes, with world-class museums
· Best attractions for children, including playgrouds, zoos, and state-of-the-art aquarium
· Excursions to the holy mountain of Montserrat and the beach resort of Sitges
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Barcelona (Rough Guide Directions S.) by Jules Brown
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Madrid (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides) by Christopher Rice, Melanie Rice
Easy to Read, Easy to Carry
I spent the first week of my vacation on my own in Madrid. Since every street in the Old Town looks the same as every other, good maps are essential. I highly recommend this guidebook for its accurate maps, ease of use, convenient size and beautiful photography.
Accurate Maps: Every street was just as pictured, right down to the drawings of suggested sights. Local Madrileños nodded in approval as they shared my guidebook with their friends.
Ease of Use: Unlike other bulky travel guides, this slim guidebook is easy to slip into a medium size purse or backpack. The included page-keepers made it easy to go back to the same map again and again. I enjoyed my afternoon as other tourists stood on streetcorners trying to find their way using ordinary maps. Another American tourist preferred my Madrid guidebook to her husband\'s text-saturated guides.
Beautiful photography: It\'s helpful to see pictures of foods with English descriptions since many restaurants don\'t have menus in English.
The pictures of buildings are placed right with the featured area maps, making a professional guide rather unnecessary. I enjoyed my unhurried stroll the the old town, something I would have been unable to do without such a fantastic guidebook. This guidebook is also a great supplement to guided tours, providing a lasting memory of my travels...all the details we so quickly forget.
I must mention the restaurant lists in the back. The restaurant Casa Labra was easy to find, close to my hotel, and within the price range specified. Although the croquetes bacalao were very good, I didn\'t find the atmosphere of the tapas room to be at all inviting.
Overall rating of 5 stars is well-deserved.
I spent the first week of my vacation on my own in Madrid. Since every street in the Old Town looks the same as every other, good maps are essential. I highly recommend this guidebook for its accurate maps, ease of use, convenient size and beautiful photography.
Accurate Maps: Every street was just as pictured, right down to the drawings of suggested sights. Local Madrileños nodded in approval as they shared my guidebook with their friends.
Ease of Use: Unlike other bulky travel guides, this slim guidebook is easy to slip into a medium size purse or backpack. The included page-keepers made it easy to go back to the same map again and again. I enjoyed my afternoon as other tourists stood on streetcorners trying to find their way using ordinary maps. Another American tourist preferred my Madrid guidebook to her husband\'s text-saturated guides.
Beautiful photography: It\'s helpful to see pictures of foods with English descriptions since many restaurants don\'t have menus in English.
The pictures of buildings are placed right with the featured area maps, making a professional guide rather unnecessary. I enjoyed my unhurried stroll the the old town, something I would have been unable to do without such a fantastic guidebook. This guidebook is also a great supplement to guided tours, providing a lasting memory of my travels...all the details we so quickly forget.
I must mention the restaurant lists in the back. The restaurant Casa Labra was easy to find, close to my hotel, and within the price range specified. Although the croquetes bacalao were very good, I didn\'t find the atmosphere of the tapas room to be at all inviting.
Overall rating of 5 stars is well-deserved.
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