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Fodor's Barcelona, 3rd Edition: With Highlights of Catalonia & Bilbao (Full-color Travel Guide)Fodor's Barcelona, 3rd Edition: With Highlights of Catalonia & Bilbao (Full-color Travel Guide)
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Fodor’s Barcelona
PLAN YOUR PERFECT TRIP
Full-color guide • Make your trip to Barcelona unforgettable with maps, illustrated features, and color photos.
Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Convenient overview of each region/island/neighborhood and its highlight • Best bets for local dining • Easy-to-read color neighborhood maps
Explore the Sagrada Família, the Boqueria market, Park Güell, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on the Gaudí’s sites, Spanish wines, and Spain’s food revolution • Best tapas touring, museum hopping, and beachcombing • Tips for making the most of your euros
Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s Barcelona-based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Frequently updated to provide the latest information
“Fodor’s has emerged…as our fave guidebook series for insider tips about things you actually want to know.” – Miami Herald
“Hipped up…with colorful maps and graphics, plus advice on a broader range of attractions, from classic to quirky.” – Outside Magazine
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PLAN YOUR PERFECT TRIP
Full-color guide • Make your trip to Barcelona unforgettable with maps, illustrated features, and color photos.
Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Convenient overview of each region/island/neighborhood and its highlight • Best bets for local dining • Easy-to-read color neighborhood maps
Explore the Sagrada Família, the Boqueria market, Park Güell, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on the Gaudí’s sites, Spanish wines, and Spain’s food revolution • Best tapas touring, museum hopping, and beachcombing • Tips for making the most of your euros
Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s Barcelona-based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Frequently updated to provide the latest information
“Fodor’s has emerged…as our fave guidebook series for insider tips about things you actually want to know.” – Miami Herald
“Hipped up…with colorful maps and graphics, plus advice on a broader range of attractions, from classic to quirky.” – Outside Magazine
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Fodor's Barcelona, 3rd Edition: With Highlights of Catalonia & Bilbao (Full-color Travel Guide)
- Paperback: 10 pages (2010-06-22)
- Publisher: Fodor's; 2010-06-22
- Label: Fodor's
- Studio: Fodor's
- ISBN: 1400004233
- Sales Rank in Books: #174829
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:  Reasonable intro, but too introductory and hard to parse listings, By This review is from: Fodor's Barcelona, 3rd Edition: With Highlights of Catalonia & Bilbao (Full-color Travel Guide) (Paperback) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) I read through this guide with an eye to returning to Barcelona, which I last visited in 2002. I found it a good survey, but absent an angle on how to get into the city's vibrant culture (the nightlife and culinary scenes get short shrift), with too many dense detailed listings of hotels and restaurants.
Travel-guides are have become less relevant in the Internet age, and in my mind now need to fill a roll that's not obsoleted by online sources. For an experienced traveler like me, those roles include analyzing complex information (eg, "How do I experience Spain?"), or providing an insider's view that I might not have without being a resident or spending inordinate amounts of time reading forums (eg, "Where do the young people party, where can I eat as a solo traveler during the day before tapas places are open?", "What's the etiquette on toplessness on the Catalan beaches?"). Also providing travel inspiration, providing starting points for online research,...Read more 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:  Balanced, informative guidebook, By This review is from: Fodor's Barcelona, 3rd Edition: With Highlights of Catalonia & Bilbao (Full-color Travel Guide) (Paperback) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) I have strong preferences in Travel Guides. While the "Eyewitness" series are the most beautifully illustrated and photographed, I will read it pre-trip but never take it with me as I find it very short of critical information I need to navigate a city/country. I find the Frommers guides very dry - factual and very complete but dense. I was delighted with this Fodor's "Barcelona" title. It had some photographs and illustrations to make it visually more fun to read. But it also has enough information to make it the book you throw into your travel bag.The critical information is there- short review, street address, credit cards or not, phone number etc. but presented in a somehow more entertaining way than its peers. The other nice touch is that there is a Pull Out "On The Go Map" included. It has a Barcelona street map with Barcelona metro map on the back. One note - although the title says "with Highlights of Catalonia and Bilbao" the book is...Read more 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Nice pre-trip information; not so useful in details, By Mainiac (Portland, Maine, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Fodor's Barcelona, 3rd Edition: With Highlights of Catalonia & Bilbao (Full-color Travel Guide) (Paperback) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) [Since Amazon sometimes confounds these things with travel books, let me confirm that this is the 3rd edition of Fodor's Barcelona with Highlights of Catalonia and Bilbao.]
Pros: lovely color pictures and background information to whet your appetite relatively compact size to carry with you in Barcelona included map Cons: missing some important information about newer areas of the city and tips on when to visitsites I was psyched to see this book appear as an option a few weeks before my planned trip to Barcelona (on business), and upon receiving it was immediately disappointed that the area near the convention center (aka the Forum) was nowhere to be found in the book. (Correction: I found one hotel in the area by looking in the index.) Now that I've been, I somewhat understand... the area is new (past five years or so) and as bland as can be. But I think its absence from the book indicates that they...Read more |
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