Spain Books and Travel Guides


Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain
Want to know where to get a great espresso on your way to the Uffizi? Or how much to tip a hotel maid in New York City? Try these travel guides, each an intricate trove of 3-D aerial views, landmark floor plans, color photos and essential eating, shopping and entertainment info. With titles covering Paris, Prague, and London, these pocket-sized guides are like a Michelangelo fresco: deliriously rich in detail. ---People Magazine Review
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Fodor's 99 Spain
Fodor's Gold Guides are ideal for travelers who want to experience the flavors, sights, and sounds of their destination. Short, medium, and long itineraries advise readers on what to see in the time they have. A-to-Z listings of important contacts and travel tips, detailed maps with bullets pinpointing hotels and restaurants, background essays, and a comprehensive index make the perfect travel package.
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Rick Steves' Spain & Portugal 1999
Steves points out the most delicious paella in Sevilla, the best folk art on the Portuguese coast, and the most economical ways to experience flamenco, bullfighting, and the Prado. 30 maps.
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Lonely Planet Spain
Spain's remarkable history is explored, along with coverage of Spanish food, the arts, and festivals. This long-awaited guide includes up-to-date travel information for all budgets on places to stay, eat, and be entertained along with insider information on Madrid, Spain's exciting capital, and Barcelona, its most cosmopolitan and stylish city. color photos. 90 maps.
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Let's Go 1999: Spain & Portugal
From the bestselling LET'S GO budget travel series, compiled by a team of researchers who travel all over the globe to rewrite and rediscover each destination. Each guide offers more choices than any other budget series, with detailed color maps and up-to-date information for any traveler, including gay and lesbian travelers, the disabled, and women traveling alone. 40 b&w maps. 3 color maps .
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Discovering Spain : An Uncommon Guide
On the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America--a complete guide for Americans who want to discover Spain. Casas infuses this guidebook with her expert, intimate knowledge and love of the country, covering the 12 regions of Spain plus the Balearic and Canary Islands. 60 line drawings; 20 maps
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Time Out Barcelona
An essential handbook for any visitor to Spain's most colorful city, this Time Out guide is packed with critical and up-to-the-minute details on the city's sights, arts, and entertinment. It includes information on accommodations, clubs, restaurants, fiestas and festivals, and trips out of the city to mountains, beaches, and villages of Catalonia. color maps.
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Mediterranean Color : Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Greece
The sun-splashed countries of the Mediterranean are shown here as never before. Photographer Jeffrey Becom focuses on how people live and celebrate living in the exquisite details of their humble dwellings in six Mediterranean countries. Becom's dazzling images complement his graceful narrative guide.
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Fodor's Madrid & Barcelona

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Frommer's 99 Spain
Nearly a million Americans visit Spain every year--in fact, the World Tourism Organization ranks Spain as the #2 destination in the world for international travelers! The opening of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao by noted architect Frank Gehry, the reopening of Barcelona's world-class opera house, and the Year of Jacobeo, which promises to draw four times as many tourists to the Santiago Pilgrim Trail--they all add up to a big year for tourism.
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