The Rough Guide to Barcelona

by Jules Brown

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The Rough Guide to Barcelona offers the traveller a first-class insight into this colourful and exciting city. This fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised and includes up-to-the-minute reviews of the city''s best restaurants, bars and clubs. There are in-depth accounts of all the sights, from the tree-lined Ramblas to the weird and wonderful modernista archi ...more

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Paperback , Sixth Edition , 320 pages

Published August 2004 by Rough Guides Limited (first published May 1st 1997)

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Aug 22, 2011 Evangeline rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction , travel , 2011

As I usually find with the Rough Guide series, this wasn't as aesthetically-pleasing as most other guidebooks, seriously lacking in pretty, colourful pictures etc, but once you get past that you realise that this means there is more room for detailed information, and you don't need pictures anyway if you are going to see the real thing!

One word of caution though, some of the information, particularly prices, are already out of date. I actually found that some of the admission costs for attractio ...more

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Jul 21, 2010 Kristy rated it liked it · review of another edition

A clear and comprehensive guide to the city of Barcelona -- since I haven't actually traveled there yet, I can't say how accurate or helpful the information is, but it certainly gave me a feeling for the neighborhoods and surrounding region, and a whole list of things I'd love to do someday. Anyone want to buy me a ticket? Not a lot of pictures, but who needs them when we have Google image search?

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