The DK Eyewitness Travel Spain Guidebook is heavy and colourful. It is far from a traditional where to go, how to get there guide but more like a perusal, coffee -table tome.
It arrived on my doorstep and I couldn´t put down for hours; lucky for me it came on a Saturday. I found myself pouring through its pages, scanning the plentiful photos and checking out the places I knew. Then I put the kettle on, made coffee, took a seat and began from the beginning.
Spain in Full Colour
Its pages brings alive the vibrancy of Spain, Traditions and cultures sing from the glossy unending illustrations, showing its landscape and monuments through bright pages packed with endless information. The major monuments have plans and more detail, major cities have maps, and every page had me excited and wanting to go there and visit so much so that I was making lists and planning trips in my head.
One book covering a country the size of Spain is a difficult task to achieve, but this guide does it surprisingly well. It touches on Spain´s history, gastronomy and culture with plans, maps and drawings, and makes a great book for trip planning. It will will have you wanting a longer trip than you have planned. I´ve got one or two itineraries floating around my head now. It isn´t a book for helping you get from Point A to Point B. It shows rather than tells, with the sheer number of illustrations, which can lead to some of the pages being a little overwhelming and somewhat crammed.
Spanish Travel Guides and Coffee-table Books
Included amongst the 720 pages are Spain´s most famous monuments but also many more lesser-known monuments are featured here. The huge amount of information and facts explain what to visit, where to stay, where and when the local market is on, which local dishes not to miss, and so much more.
Even if you´re not planning a trip to Spain, this book would make a great gift for Spain-lovers or as a coffee-table book to peruse again and again. It really is very good. I´ll be a constant dipper into these pages.
I received my book as a free review copy; it is available to purchase through Amazon.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide is published by Dorling Kindersley with an ISBN 978-1-4053-4838-6. The price is 17.99GBP. It was first published in Great Britain in 1996. This review is for the latest Feb. 2011 edition.
Rachel L. Webb - Rachel L Webb lives in and writes mainly about Andalucia. She enjoys exploring the region and shares her explorations through her website ...
