Spain (DK Eyewitness Travel Guide)
DK Publishing
Language: English
Pages: 674
ISBN: 1539959929
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, along with street-by-street maps of key cities and towns.
The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets. Detailed transportation and other practical information will help you to get around easily by train, bus, or car.
What's new in DK Eyewitness Travel Guides:
• New itineraries based on length of stay, regional destinations, and themes.
• Brand-new hotel and restaurants listings including DK's Choice recommendations.
• Restaurant locations plotted on redrawn area maps and listed with sights.
• Redesigned and refreshed interiors make the guides even easier to read.
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain truly shows you this destination as no one else can.
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continues today, financed by public subscription. Bell Towers Eight of the 12 spires, one for each apostle, have been built. Each is topped by Venetian mosaics. The Finished Church Gaudí’s initial ambitions have been kept over the years, using various new technologies to achieve his vision. Still to come is the central tower, which is to be encircled by four large towers representing the Evangelists. Four towers on the Glory (south) façade will match the existing four on the Passion (west) and
This smart café has its own versions of many different types of bread, from Continental favourites to African specialities. In El Born, Vila Viniteca sells a formidable range of Spanish and Catalan wines. Among more than 7,500 labels here you can find cheap and cheerful table wines, as well as decadently expensive Priorats and Riojas. Also remember that leaving Barcelona without a bottle of the nation’s beloved Catalan champagne, cava, would be verging on the sacrilegious. The delightfully
one of the celebrated traditional tapas bars, hike up the Monte Urgell to enjoy the views, then head to the Playa de la Concha, a crescent of golden sand curving round an idyllic bay. For dinner, splash out on one of the many Michelinstarred restaurants (see p585). Day 5: Oñati and the Santuario de Loiola From San Sebastián, drive inland through verdant countryside to the Santuario de Loiola (p128), a lavish 18th-century complex built on the site where the founder of the Jesuits, San Ignacio de