Eyewitness Travel Guide to Spain
Truly the guides that show you what others only tell you, this book features stunning 3D and cutaway views of museums, cathedrals, and other must-see sights; detailed street maps; a handy phrase section; advice on the best places to eat, drink, shop, sleep, and be entertained; and a Survival Guide to help the traveler sort out essential information such as currency, transportation, and communications. As world traveler and TV personality Michael Palin says, “the Eyewitness Travel Guides are irresistibly seductive…. They also deliver where it matters most — uncluttered and accurate information.” Spain remains one the prime destinations of travelers going to Europe, and no guide book covers it like DK’s Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain. More than 1400 full-color exclusive photographs capture the romance and glory of Spain’s cities, landscape, and treasures. Divided into five regional sections plus additional sections devoted exclusively to Madrid and Barcelona, this invaluable refer… More >>
If you are like me and:
1. Are backpacking.
2. Don’t like extra weight.
3. Don’t care about pictures.
4. Dislike cutsie, snobbish writing style for the +45 crowd.
then don’t buy this book. However, the low end hotels that the book recomends were very nice, clean, and it had more than a few restaurants as well.
The book was written for the **budgetless traveller**, those travelling on busses or renting cars, etc. This wasn’t made for those that are actually carrying their stuff themselves for any extended period of time.
I thought this book a great teacher to me in my desire to travel to Spain. I am looking forward to my trip and feel that because of information from the book I chose wisely. Candace Seviss
Has everything in it to make your traveling there easy and interesting. Great pictures and maps (I would add some more of them and improve existing ones, but it’s Ok in general).
This is the heaviest book I own. I like to travel light, and wouldn’t consider packing this book. It is full of detail that you would use while traveling, but not very interesting to read in advance and get a general sense of what to expect. I will have to order another guide – and donate this to the Friends of the Library Sale.
This was an extremely helpful guide during my vacation in Southern Spain. Lavishly illustrated and well organized, it helped us find some of the more remote vacation spots. I ended up reading it cover to cover, just to learn more about Spanish culture. The series must be popular because we ran into other tourists, from France and Italy, who had the same guidebook in different languages. My only complaint is that the authors seemed to focus too much on architectural showpieces, rather than on historical or literary sites.