Insight Pocket Guide Barcelona (Insight Pocket Guides) [Paperback]

Insight Guides (Author), Roger Williams (Other Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Insight Pocket Guides | Publication Date: January 1998

Pocket Guide Barcelona includes a chapter detailing Barcelona's history and culture, 14 itineraries and 4 excursions taking in sights ranging from the bookstalls and buskers on Las Ramblas to Sitges' Platja d'Or, leisure-time suggestions, and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus high quality photographs and 13 maps, including a detailed pull-out map.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme – the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Apa Productions; 4th Bk&MP edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887298389
• ISBN-13: 978-0887298387
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,552,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

London-based journalist, editor and author, I am a perpetual tourist with a penchant for hotels called Bristol. See www.rogerwilliams.eu

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellant for all purposes, July 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Insight Guide Barcelona (Insight City Guide Barcelona) (Paperback)

This was a comprehensive guidebook that gave enough information on all subjects to get you where you were going, tell you how to do things, and alert you to diverse sites and events that were especially interesting. Most important was its way of presenting enough historical, cultural, and political information to make one aware and able to navigate Barcelona's unique environment while at the same time exponentially increasing curiousity. We were working up until the time of our flight and skimmed the book en route. We had never been to Spain, didn't speak Spanish and yet spent two weeks in Barcelona without any difficulties and used only this book as our guide. As a direct result of the ease of use and interest the guide book piqued we bought and read many books on Catalonian history, political history, social culture, Picasso, Gaudi, architecture, etc. while we were exploring the city, making our two weeks of travel instead of a tour of cities into one of the more in depth, interesting trips we've ever taken. In three months we've given a copy of the book to two other families going to Barcelona, tracked down the other Insight Guides and begun to plan next summer's trip around one of them.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best guide to this beautiful city., May 1, 2000

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Thomas G. Endres (Minnesota, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Insight Pocket Guide Barcelona (Insight Pocket Guides) (Paperback)

The separate, removable map which is included makes this book worth the purchase. The map lists all sidestreets, which is necessary to navigate the city. The book itself gives just enough history to familiarize yourself with Barcelona and Catalonia, and then takes you on a neighborhood by neighborhood tour. Lots of good photos throughout. More detailed than the smaller compact version from the same company. Not quite as detailed as guides from other companies (e.g. doesn't include much for phone numbers or tourist tips), but is easier to read than they are.