Rick Steves' Snapshot Barcelona

By Rick Steves

You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Barcelona. In this 108-page compact guide, Rick Steves covers the essentials of Barcelona, including the Old City, the Ramblas, the harborfront, and other neighborhoods. Visit the Picasso Museum, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral, and immerse yourself in Catalan culture, art, and museums. You'll get Rick's firsthand advice on the best sights, eating, sleeping, and nightlife, and the maps and self-guided tours will ensure you make the most of your experience. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves Snapshot guide is a tour guide in your pocket. Rick Steves' Snapshot guides consist of excerpted chapters from Rick Steves' European country guidebooks. Snapshot guides are a great choice for travelers visiting a specific city or region, rather than multiple European destinations. These slim guides offer all of Rick's up-to-date advice on what sights are worth your time and money. They include good-value hotel and restaurant recommendations, with no introductory information (such as overall trip planning, when to go, and travel practicalities).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159880488X
• ISBN13: 9781598804881
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Rick Steves
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This little book is filled with excellent hints, and information. We are looking forward to our trip to Barcelona for 4 nights then onto the cruise ship for 7 nights......Western Med.

Excellent - Close to Perfect Size and Amount of Detail

This excellent book was close to the perfect size for us. The detachable fold-out map had enough detail for most our needs and was easy to read in reasonably good light. Like the book, the map is made of water resistant stock (rather study stock for the map). If you do unguided travel, you may want to supplement the detachable map with a more detailed one. We did this because the extra map was larger and easier to read in poor light. But the book also includes one-page maps of different neighborhoods, and we thought the one-page maps were very clear and detailed. Both the map and book are small enough to fit in a cargo pocket (barely, but they do) or all but the smallest of purses. The book is well organized and indexed, and we found all the answers we were looking for - accurate answers - without searching through a bunch of minutia.

Excellent guide book

I use Rick Steves' guide books & Streetwise maps for every city I can...even the restaurant selections are good...It's best to read the guide before you go, however if you're going to multiple cities as I just did then that may not be possible...it's a good idea to go to the Rick Steves' website or to iTunes & download his tours on your iPod...so much better than having to have a guide...

Great small book

This book hits all the highlights of Barcelona, plus close side trips from town. It is small enough to carry while sightseeing.

Perfect guidebook companion - awesome for iPhone Kindle reader!

GET THIS E-BOOK!!! I debated whether it would be worth the money before I took a big month-long trip to Spain this past October/November 2009. I was not disappointed! The most useful feature (there are tons) in the Snapshot city guide e-books are the self-guided tours through the museums. There are crowd-beating tips, updated cost, hours, locations, phone numbers, maps, self-guided walking tours in the city...Seriously, it's a no-brainer. Get this e-book. For so little money, you can save yourself a world full of headaches. He also points out cool things to see in the city that aren't in other tour books (the Sardana dances), and he gives invaluable tips of the good places to go for everything (food, entertainment, museums, neighborhoods, etc). Also, the local free tourist maps they give you are usually anemic by way of detailed, accurate information. Having this little tool as a backup is critical when you may not have time to hunt down bigger books and maps. It also gives you info about surrounding cities you may like to visit, as well as tips on language, money, phoning...Plus, it fits in your pocket (I used it on my iPhone with the Kindle reader). You don't look like a tourist dork reading your iPhone, like you do lugging around maps and books. You look way cooler...