Granada Seville Cordoba, 2nd (Cadogan Guide Granada, Seville, Cordoba) [Paperback]

Dana Facaros (Author), Michael Pauls (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2001 | Series: Cadogan Guide Granada, Seville, Cordoba

Three dazzling cities, with remarkable stories to tell. Granada, nestled at the foothills of the snowcapped Sierra Nevada, drenched in the sweet melancholy of the lost world of al-Andalus and glorying in the drama of the Alhambra. Showy Seville, home of roses and passion, Carmen, bulls and flamenco, where you can pick oranges from the trees and eat tapas in the city that invented them. Cordoba, with its Mezquita, ancient Jewish quarter and twisting maze of white alleys, a haven of quietness and dignified calm. Cadogan's essential guide is ideal for a short break or a longer stay in these three great cities of southern Spain, where the stuff of civilization merges delightfully into the pleasures of everyday life.

This guide contains: practical travel advice; 250 hand-picked places to stay; 150 restaurants, bars & cafes; detailed maps & site plans; food & drink advice with a practical menu reader; stunning color photography; top shops and local markets. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 212 pages, color photos, maps)

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Three dazzling cities, with remarkable stories to tell. Granada, nestled at the foothills of the snowcapped Sierra Nevada, drenched in the sweet melancholy of the lost world of al-Andalus and glorying in the drama of the Alhambra. Showy Seville, home of roses and passion, Carmen, bulls and flamenco, where you can pick oranges from the trees and eat tapas in the city that invented them. Cordoba, with its Mezquita, ancient Jewish quarter and twisting maze of white alleys, a haven of quietness and dignified calm. Cadogan's essential guide is ideal for a short break or a longer stay in these three great cities of southern Spain, where the stuff of civilization merges delightfully into the pleasures of everyday life.This guide contains: practical travel advice; 250 hand-picked places to stay; 150 restaurants, bars & cafes; detailed maps & site plans; food & drink advice with a practical menu reader; stunning color photography; top shops and local markets. (5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 212 pages, color photos, maps)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Cadogan Guides; 2nd edition (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1860118267
• ISBN-13: 978-1860118265
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,260,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #56 in Books > Travel > Europe > Spain > Seville

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Take it with you, December 16, 2000

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This review is from: Spain Three Cities: Granada, Seville & Cordoba (Paperback)

Good writing style; good information on hotels, eating, shopping and entertainment. Got the best pre-trip information from this book after comapring it to 3 others. Maps are adequate, the rest is quite good.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Companion to Thicker Guidebooks, January 10, 2010

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This review is from: Granada Seville Cordoba, 3rd (Country & Regional Guides - Cadogan) (Paperback)

We purchased an inexpensive earlier edition of this Andalusia-focused text to accompany the thicker Frommer and Steve's Spain guidebooks and we were pleasantly surprised. The Cadogan guide provides a different point of view, with more historical and cultural comment and much less practical information (i.e. hotel and restaurant reviews). As a thin volume, we carried Cadogan with us, until I foolishly dropped the book from my shoulder bag in Triana (Sevilla) - luckily near the end of our ten-day intinerary through Cordoba, Granada and Sevilla. I wanted to cry! As mentioned, we bought the slightly outdated previous additional for a few dollars, since we were relying on the current other guides to give us the up-to-the-minute practical info. This strategy worked perfectly. I recommend that any traveler to these Andalusian cities, particularly those on a first visit, purchase this guide as a good supplement to the other better-known guidebooks, whether you carry it to Spain, or not.