Top 10 Barcelona

by D.K. Publishing, DK Eyewitness Travel, Ryan Chandler

Book Overview

With its compelling history, legendary architecture and incredible arts scene, Barcelona is a cultural heavyweight - and the perfect city break. Make the most of your trip to this bewitching city with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789484323
• ISBN13: 9780789484321
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Best travel guide for Barcelona

I've had the pleasure of spending nearly three weeks in Barcelona on three different trips now (total of 19 days). Each morning I toss this little jewel into my purse or daypack and leave any other guides I've brought with me in the hotel. The book is fabulous if you only have a couple of days to spend there, but is also very useful for repeat visits (I'm just now coming to the end of this little guide's usefulness). Don't leave home without it (or its newer replacement) if you're traveling to marvelous Barcelona.

Better than the Rough Guides' Barcelona

After reading all the great reviews online, I decided to purchase this guild book for Barcelona, but since I never purchased a guide book by eyewitness, I was skeptical... so I bought the Rough Guides' Barcelona as well. Turns out, this one is SO MUCH BETTER and comprehensive than the Roughs' guide! During the week that my boyfriend and I stayed in Barcelona, we brought both books with us everywhere. I would say 90% of the time, this guide was able to provide us the accurate info to the sites we wanted to visit. One day, we accidentally left this book in the hotel, and got lost using the Roughs' guide! Anyway, I would highly recommend if you only going to buy one guide book for Barcelona, you purchase this one. It made our trip much easy and enjoyable.

Best book I have found on Barcelona

This is the most helpful book I have seen on Barcelona. I believe it should be combined with a more indepth guidebook wo one can look up the most interesting locales in more depth. It is very hard to get perspective on sites to take in when there are so many fascinating places to visit. This helps with the highlighting and the winnowing. I got a total of five of these books and passed them out to all the other groups going with us.

There should be one of these for every city!

It was the perfect guide for my independent trip to Barcelona. It is the most user friendly city guide I used (I've also used Rick Steves and Rough Guide). The guide first identifies the top 10 sites and then what I loved is that it marks them on a map with numbers making it really easy to spot. The map in the guide was great and in color. It made my trip so enjoyable because I knew what I wanted to do and where to get there. Also, becasue it showed all the locations of the sites on a map I could easily plan which sites to see all in one area and thus make the most out of my days. It also gives history behind each site and also lists the top 10 things to see at each attraction! I loved this guide and wished they had one for more cities! The one complaint I have is that I really think Park Guell should be listed in the top 10. I almost missed the park (where the tradmark colored frog is and Gaudi's home) but a hostelmate told me about it. It is listed in the top ten for parks but just be aware that that park is a must see.

useful pocket guide to Barcelona

Having just returned from a trip to Barcelona, and having brought several pocket guides to the city, we found this little book fairly useful. First of all, the covers and pages are glossy so they don't stain easily, which was unique to this guide. Secondly, there are LOTS of small color photographs, which is nice, though they are necessarily small. The front and back covers fold out to maps of the city and the metro system, and a selected street index. The book is organized into "top ten" lists: attractions, Modernista buildings, squares, churches, museums, cafes, restairants and tapas bars, night-time spots, gay & lesbian hangouts, shopping areas, markets, city views, parks & beaches, walks and bike rides, activities, attractions for children, folk festivals, and performance venues. In the next section, top ten lists are given for each geographic section of the city, and the lists mix resteraunts, attractions, etc. The final section, called "Streetsmart", gives top ten helpful hints for: getting to barcelona, getting around the city, ways to explore, tours, information sources, security, health, banking, eating, shopping, budget travel and hotels. Each list is accompanied by a map or graphic and each item gets a few descriptive sentences and includes hours, prices and metro stop information. The book concludes with an incomplete index and some useful phrases. We found this guide pretty useful and compact, and would definitely use others in the series when travelling.