Product Description

This full colour guide shows you how to navigate yourself around one of Europe's most chic cities in the most time efficient way.

• Full day tours around the Royal Palace, the Plaza Mayor, the Prado Museum, Retiro Park, as well as eccentric palaces, and all the best cafés and tapas bars
• The best neighbourhood walks around the Madrid of the Austrias, with its royal palaces and churches: the bohemian Plaza de Santa Ana: the trio of superb art museums which form the Golden Triangle; the chic Salamanca district: and the hip, colourful neighbourhoods of Malasaña and Chueca
• Highlights the best shopping from the Rastro flea market to the boutiques of Salamanca
• Includes Day Trips to magical cities, including Toledo and Segovia, as well as the magnificent royal palace and pantheon at El Escorial. 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49759 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470721728
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover

At last, a travel guide that tells you how to see the best of everything—in the smartest, most time-efficient way.

• The best of Madrid in one, two, or three days

• Thematic tours for every interest, schedule, and taste

• Hundreds of evocative photos

• Bulleted maps that show you how to go from place to place

• Hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife for all budgets

• A tear-resistant foldout map—enclosed in a handy plastic wallet you can also use for tickets and souvenirs

Customer Reviews

A must for a short travel
This book is very useful if you are planning to stay 1-5 days in the city. I have the same book for 6 more cities and they are all great. Very useful metro train maps, city maps and area maps. It incldes day trips to places outside the city.

The best Madrid guide
I have been traveling to Madrid for years on and off and know the city well. But I have struggled to find a decent guide that covers all the ground. Some, like Lonely Planet have good maps but are superficial on museums, culture and dreadful when it comes to restaurants. Others stress culture or eating out but are thin on practicalities.

This is the only book I have found which covered the ground. And it's down to the author who writes clearly and wittily, has good taste in food and hotels and is clearly a genuine authority on Spain rather than a person shipped in to do a quick job.