Product Description

Discover the enchanting city of Barcelona with this full-colour and beautifully illustrated DK Eyewitness Travel Guide. From the astonishing buildings of the Gothic quarter to the mayhem of La Ramblas, all of Barcelona is laid out for you with 3D aerial views, unique cutaways and detailed floor plans. You’ll find advice and recommendations for everything from Barcelona’s conveniently located beaches and immaculate food markets, to gregarious nightspots and tapas bars for sampling delicious Spanish wine. Completely revised and updated, there is a bigger selection of accommodation, restaurants, shops and entertainment, as well as enhanced mapping to make getting around Barcelona as easy as possible. There are four specially devised walking tours, and if you need a break from all the urban excitement, the monasteries, vineyards, beaches, ski resorts and national parks of Catalonia are not far away – and are fully covered in this guide as well.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26705 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
'Ravishing photography plus maps and plans of supreme quality.' The Observer

Customer Reviews

Not the most comprehensive DK city guide
I have previously found the DK eyewitness range of books to be most the most detailed city guides on the market. However the Barcelona edition proved to be a big disapointment. To start with I arrived in the city at the main railway station only to find it wasn't even in the map section. On further visiting attractions within the city there was minimal or even omitted detail on some of the leading tourist destinations. During my visit I eventually dispensed with the book and relied more on tourist information handouts.

Great pictorial guide, poor informative guide
There was not much more to offer after buying the Eyewitness guide to Spain, in fact they more or less just took the chunk about Catalunya and put a cover on it and said "that will be X amount please". This guide is fantastic for maps and pictorial guides, but the information about on trains, restaurants, parks, opening times etc... needs a lot more further exploration as I found much to my frustration, I would recommend this book (if you havn't got the guide to Spain), for its pictorial info, but I would also buy the 'Rough Guide to Barcelona' (which saved my holiday!) for information purposes.

A great bonus to the holiday
Yet again our holiday was made more enjoyable by the fantastic DK guide