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Full-color guide • Make your trip to Spain unforgettable with illustrated features, maps, and color photos. Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Top experiences & attractions • Convenient overview of each region and its highlights • Easy-to-read color regional maps Explore Spain and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice picks for hotels, restaurants, sights, and more • “Word of Mouth” tips from fellow Fodor’s travelers • Illustrated features on the Prado Museum, the wines of Spain, Gaudi, flamenco, the Alhambra, tapas, and Basque Country • Best beaches, best restaurants, best tapas spots, and best lodgings Opinions from destination experts • Fodor’s Spain-based writers reveal their favorite local haunts • Revised annually to provide the latest information

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Spain remains one of the world's most popular tourist destinations for its cutting-edge cuisine and superior wine, festivals like the running of the bulls in Pamplona, world-class museums like the Museo del Prado, amazing architecture, and more. In stunning full-color, Fodor's Essential Spain puts the best the country has to offer at your fingertips. This travel guide includes: · Dozens of full-color maps plus a handy pullout map with essential information · Hundreds of hotel and restaurant recommendations, with Fodor's Choice designating our top picks · Multiple itineraries to explore the top attractions and what’s off the beaten path · Coverage of Madrid; Toledo; Galicia and Asturias; The Basque Country, Navarra, and La Rioja; The Pyrenees; Barcelona; Catalonia, Valencia, and The Costa Blanca; Ibiza and the Balearic Islands; Andalusia Planning to focus on Barcelona? Check out Fodor's travel guide to Barcelona.

Provides a region-by-region guide to Spain including information on accommodations, shopping, and points of interest

Helps to explore the Sagrada Familia, the Boqueria market, and Park Guell. This title includes illustrated features on the Gaudi's sites, Spanish wines, and Spain's food revolution. It also offers information on best tapas touring, museum hopping, and beachcombing. It features tips for making the most of your euros.

Whether you want to explore the treasures of El Prado, dance the flamenco, take a tapas tour, or experience the incredible Alhambra, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Madrid, Seville and Granada are here to help! Fodor’s Madrid with Seville and Granada guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been designed with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor’s Madrid travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 20 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT MAP to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “Madrid’s Best Museums,” “Top 10 Stops between Madrid and Granada,” “What to Buy in Madrid,” “What to Eat and Drink,” “Free Things to Do in Madrid,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, and more SPECIAL FEATURES on the Alhambra, El Prado, Flamenco, What to Watch and Read Before You Visit, “What to Eat and Drink in Andalusia,” and more LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems SPANISH LANGUAGE PRIMERS with useful words and essential phrases UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Madrid, El Prado, the Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Palacio Real, Barrio de las Letras, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca, Sepúlveda, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Seville, flamenco, tapas, Museo de Bellas Artes, El Arenal, Plaza de España, Ronda, Granada, Sacromonte, the Alhambra, Italica, Jerez de la Frontera, and more. Planning on visiting the rest of Spain or Morocco? Check out Fodor’s Essential Spain and Fodor’s Essential Morocco. *Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition. ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

Whether you want to explore the Alhambra, marvel at La Sagrada Familia, or enjoy tapas, wine, and flamenco, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Spain are here to help! Fodor’s Essential Spain guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor’s “Essential” guides were named by Booklist as the Best Travel Guide Series of 2020. Fodor’s Essential Spain 2024 travel guide includes: AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and do MULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your time MORE THAN 55 DETAILED MAPS and a FREE PULL-OUT MAP to help you navigate confidently COLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust! HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, nightlife, shopping, performing arts, activities, side-trips, and more PHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “Spain’s Best Museums,” “Spain's Best Beaches,” “Most Beautiful Castle Hotels in Spain,” “Spain’s Most Beautiful Villages,” and more TRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and money HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, politics, art, architecture, cuisine, music, geography and more SPECIAL FEATURES on “History You Can See,” “What to Watch and Read Before You Visit,” and “What to Eat and Drink” LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gems SPANISH-LANGUAGE PRIMER with useful words and essential phrases UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: Madrid, Barcelona, Andalusia, Granada, Seville, the Pyrenees, the Canaries, Galicia, Asutrias, Basque Country,Toledo, La Rioja, Bilbao, Catalonia, Valencia, Ibiza, Costa del Sol, and more Planning on visiting Spain? Check out Fodor’s Barcelona and Fodor's Madrid. *Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition. ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!