Spain

by Guides Touristiques Michelin and Michelin

Book Overview

A comprehensive and practical travel guide to Spain offering suggestions on what to see and what to do, backgound on history and culture of the country. It includes maps and itineraries, making the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2060000688
• ISBN13: 9782060000688
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications
• Length: 529 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Spain--in alphabetical order

I used this book in 2005 to visit Madrid/Toledo/Segovia/Seville/Granada and Cordoba and then again in 2007 on a 10 day trip through Galicia. The book's main advantage is that towns/cities are in alphabetical order, so info is easy to find. However, I find the text lacking in sparkle--a bit too dull.........It was my #3 choice for information. (I also had the DK guide and the Rough Guide) The size and shape of this book make it easy to carry during the day, but most of the time, I carried the DK guide!!

Fantastic travel guide

As expected from the Michelin Green Guides series, this one too is a wonderful travel companion. Accurate and up to date, covers all important milestones and goes past the shallow surface barely scratched by other travel guides. This Michelin Green Guides is the best available, if you're going to travel to Spain don't leave home without it.

Excellent Guide

If you use this guide for what it was intended (a sightseeing guide for people with relatively limited time in Spain), it is excellent. On my last trip to Spain I used it as my main tool for deciding what to see (the star ratings really help you to prioritize), but I didn't even consult it when deciding where to sleep or eat. My recommendation is to use this guide along with another one that is loaded with painfully detailed hotel, restaurant, and price information, but doesn't really help you decide what to see with your limited time (e.g. Lonely Planet).My only real complaint was that I thought that, generally speaking, the guide's star system for rating sights/attractions underrates Spanish attractions relative to those in other countries. For example, cities like Caceres, Ronda, and Cuenca would surely get 3-star ratings if they were located in France or especially the United States, instead of Spain. Overall, I guess I felt that the raters were relatively "harsh" when assigning stars to attractions in Spain, when I compare this guide to some of Michelin's other guides for other countries I have visited. The nice thing is that when you visit "two-star" sights in Spain, expecting to see what you would normally see in a Green Guide two-star sight elsewhere, you'll be pleasantly surprised!

Very enjoyable tour guide...

I've only visited Madrid, so I'll forcus my comments on that part of the book. The explanations are short and to the point but manage to cover up all the major sight seeing. The restaurant recoomendations are especially good, and in a country where you don't speak the language, and they don't speak yours, it's nice to find a place that has authentic local food on one hand and an English menu on the other hand...