Frommer's Barcelona Day by Day [With Foldout Map of Barcelona & Catalonia]

by Neil E. Schlecht

Book Overview

These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470165405
• ISBN13: 9780470165409
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Frommer's
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.4" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

The ideal book

This book is PERFECT for anyone who does not have alot of time to spend in Barcelona. I only had 3.5 days there and this book was SUPER helpful. It gives suggestions of what to see and do based on one day, two days, or three days. Very detailed and resourceful book with pictures and various maps that made it easy to navigate the city on foot and via the metro. Very satisfied with this purchase and would def recommend it.

Perfect guidebook

This was a super handy guide. The full-size maps and the Metro map were invaluable. The book itself fit in my pocketbook but despite its size was a very thorough, user-friendly guide to Barcelona and the surrounding regions. The walking tours were perfect and provided a great introduction to the City. Restaurant recommendations were great. The recommended day trips are spot-on and this book also provides a great intro to Girona and the Costa Brava in addition to Barcelona.

Your own personal tour guide

The book is very well organized and perfect for planning your visit according to trip length or special interests. It is super efficient for the first time traveller or for those who need a refresher course because the author is extremely knowledgeable about Barcelona, Catalan culture, modernista architecture and the city's dynamic restaurant scene. The highest praise I can give the book is that I have already given it as gifts and recommended it to dozens of people traveling to Barcelona.

Perfect for a short trip!

This book is absolutely fantastic! It's small and concise while still being detailed enough for a short trip to Barcelona. It offers several suggestions for how to spend 1, 2 or 3 days. The guide book was perfect for our port stop in Barcelona on a recent cruise. I hesitated to buy a book for just one city, but it provided much more information than our general Spain book did. It was not too big or too small - great for walking around for the day - and included a fold out map. I highly recommend any book in this series. The guided Modernista walk provided structure to our wandering in Barcelona. It also features a guided walk of Las Ramblas and tons of other helpful information that we used on our short trip in Barcelona. If you were staying more than a week, I might go for something a little more detailed, but this book hits all the highlights.

Great Book for the Traveler

This was a great guide - if I was to do it again for the first trip to barcelona I would recommend this book. For your second trip there invest in one a little larger so it can go into more detail on everything you see, but that's all. This book is great.