Lonely Planet Spain (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet (PDF)

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Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet Spain is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Bask in orange-scented breezes while savoring a Valencian paella, witness the fiery passion of Andalucia’s flamenco dancers, or be captivated by Madrid and Barcelona’s art and architecture; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Spain and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet Spain Travel Guide:Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs and interests Insider tips save you time and money and help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips – including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, and prices Honest reviews for all budgets – including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, and hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer and more rewarding travel experience – including customs, history, art, music, dance, architecture, landscapes, bullfighting, cuisine, wine, and more Free, convenient pull-out Barcelona map (included in print version), plus over 110 colour maps Useful features – including Walking Tours, Travel with Children, and Month-by-Month (annual festival calendar) Coverage of Madrid, Barcelona, Catalonia, Aragon, Basque Country, La Rioja, Cantabria, Asturias, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Valencia, Mallorca, Ibiza, Seville, Andalucia, Extremadura, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Spain, our most comprehensive guide to Spain, is perfect for those planning to both explore the top sights and take the road less travelled. Looking for just the highlights of Spain? Check out Lonely Planet’s Discover Spain, a photo-rich guide to the country’smost popular attractions. Looking for a guide focused on Barcelona or Madrid? Check out Lonely Planet’s Barcelona guide or Madrid guide for a comprehensive look at all these cities have to offer, Lonely Planet’s Discover Barcelona, a photo-rich guide to the Barcelona’s most popular attractions, or Lonely Planet’s Pocket Barcelona, a handy-sized guide focused on the can’t-miss sights for a quick trip. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Anthony Ham, Stuart Butler, Anna Kaminski, John Noble, Miles Roddis, Brendan Sainsbury, Regis St Louis, and Andy Symington. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world’s leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet’s mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category’Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.’ – New York Times’Lonely Planet. It’s on everyone’s bookshelves; it’s in every traveller’s hands. It’s on mobile phones. It’s on the Internet. It’s everywhere, and it’s telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.’ – Fairfax Media (Australia)

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⭐I love Spain. It’s awesome cultural and geographical diversity make it, for me, the most fascinating country in Europe. They also make it one of the most difficult countries to cover well in a guidebook. There is so much to cover that a good guide needs to be a selective balance between many competing factors. The Lonely Planet guide is exactly that kind of balanced approach. It’s more than a guidebook. It’s really a country “handbook.”The arrangement of the book is relatively straightforward. There’s an introductory section which includes practical matters, itineraries and a summary of recommended sites, followed by the main body of the book arranged geographically, wrapped up by historical and cultural contexts for further exploration at the end. Visuals are becoming an increasingly important element of guidebooks, and Lonely Planet supports this trend without turning the book over to them entirely. While the guide includes some nice color photography and color maps, it’s nothing like a DK Eyewitness guide that subordinates everything to the eyes. There’s still enough useful information to make the guide practical, and historical and cultural information to make it a pleasant read.The content itself is relatively selective. Though most places of interest are covered in some way, down to even the smallest villages, the relative scope of that coverage is thin. The numbers of sites, hotels, and restaurants listed are limited to the ones the authors believe we will find attractive. As a matter of comparison, the Rough Guide, for example, is far more comprehensive while the Rick Steves guide is more selective still.One nice feature is the ranking of towns and cities within each chapter by interest. The author has offered an attempt to rank each town within a given region based on its potential interest to tourists. For example, in Castilla y Leon, the city of Avila is listed first, followed by Salamanca, etc… One would assume that Avila is a must-see destination in this case which, in fact, it is. I found the coverage of [sometimes neglected] Extremadura to be quite thorough.I would recommend this book for people looking for a balanced approach for their travel to Spain. There’s enough here to keep the serious heritage tourist interested, but not so much to bore the casual traveler. There are better options for travelers more keenly interested in the history and culture of Spain (Rough Guide), and also better options for travelers more interested in the stunning visual appearance of the country (DK Eyewitness).

⭐I always find Lonely Planet to be pretty reliable in terms of guidebooks. I successfully navigated Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia using this book and the pull-out map was helpful. I found that the activity suggestions were especially useful..it was easy to map out an entire day using their suggestions and all of the maps included major subway stops, making it much easier to navigate public transportation. I didn’t use it because I already knew where I was going, but I always like looking at their suggestions based upon the amount of time you have in the country. One caveat is that I wouldn’t solely use this book to find accommodation…they can’t possibly cover all of the options and looking on a travel website that searches hotels is probably going to be a lot more comprehensive.

⭐This is one of the few general travel guides that gives you background on towns other than the big tourist attractions (Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Seville, etc.). I’m using the Kindle version since it’s so much lighter to carry along when travelling. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5? It’s sometimes hard to re-locate something I’ve already read about a specific town. Why doesn’t the Kindle version include the index usually found at the end of the book? It would be SO helpful!

⭐I think I’m done with Lonely Planet, at least for Europe. I’ve been using them as backup to Rick Steves. But as mentioned, the Kindle version is very problematic. And overall, the hard copy version, in trying to cover everything everywhere, while offering great breadth, as a primary source just inundates you with information without helping you to choose between one sight or another or one restaurant/hotel or another. Plus the hard copy is bulky, very dry in spite of its best efforts, sort of academic in its feel, has print that’s too small, and feels generally overwhelming. I’ll go back to using them as a sort of secondary reference work when they improve their Kindle version.

⭐I first got the Rick Stevens book on Spain. I was stunned that almost the whole fast side of the country and the islands didn’t exist as far as he was concerned. I contacted his company to complain and the response was that he can’t cover the whole country and so did what he could. I pointed out that the title is Spain, not The Parts I Like in Spain. The response was “if you want comprehensive coverage of Spain, we suggest you buy a Lonely Planet Guide.” So I returned his book and got Lonely Planet.I’m in Spain now and the book was great helping me plan. I also like to be spontaneous with my plans and have found it to be very useful. Rick was right!

⭐Has anyone at Lonely Planet bothered to use the PDF/ebook they have created for the Kindle and other readers? You need the same thing for this that you need for all books (digital or otherwise): a decent table of contents. All Lonely Planet gives you is a list of 8 overly general topics as links for their Table of Contents, also completely ignoring to include any index with more detail. They don’t even have cities (Hello?? Madrid? Barcelona?) listed. Are you kidding me? If you try to use the Kindle search function, such as “Madrid”, you are given a list in page order of every single reference to Madrid. Is this useful? No. It’s exceedingly difficult to scan through a list of hundreds of obscure references. I just want to see the Madrid chapter. What are you left to do? You have to hunt through hundreds of pages to find the sections you want. They should be embarrassed.The Frommer’s app called Spain Day by Day is the best layout I have ever seen for a digital guide, but it is only a general overview. For Kindle, Rick Steves does a decent job. At least he knows how to include links and indexes throughout his guide. Lonely Planet seems to be new to the Internet and mobile age. They should consider talking to a few of the people using those funky handheld, shiny, metallic squares in all those countries they visit.

⭐Great guide with lots of information about how to get along in Spain, the history, the cultural aspect, the food and the nightlife. And, quite notably, a rich source of phone numbers, with which you can make bookings for accommodation day after day. We were on a road trip and we always made the booking after leaving the previous place: never failed us!

⭐Lonely Planet’s are my favourite travel guides. This is well up to standard. Old-timers might miss the coverage of real budget accommodation which used to dominate the listings. But with the Internet the need for this has diminished and probably quite rightly the editors have kept this to a minimum. In combination with Trivago and the like, this is probably all you need for your trip.

⭐Good as all Lonely Planet guides are, but would have liked a bit more detail about the area I am going to Costa Brava. The guide is a bit dismissive and tends to sum it up as ‘commercial’ and ‘touristy’. However there are some less developed places that are worth visiting. Also I am surprised that no mention of such websites as airbnb for booking cheap, excellent accommodation.

⭐Have used Lonely Planet guides for the Far East and feel sure this one will fit the bill too. We plan to be travlling around Spain in our campervan in September, so have not been able to put it to the test yet. However, it is helping us to plan our route very effectively, as to what to see. Can’t wait to get on the road and visit many of the attractions listed.

⭐On Kindle, searching for a particular place is difficult because too many results come up; every cross reference, not just the main reference which one would find in a book index. The maps are very difficult to handle on a Kindle.

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