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This book explores La Rioja, famed for its vanilla-like wine, and the magnificent Pyrenees. It visits Cantabria, with its international arts festival, and the lively summer resort of Santander. It takes in the prehistoric art of the Puento Viesgo Caves, Spain's finest Visigothic architecture in Castilla-Leon, and the Basque lands of Navarra and Euzkadi. It provides expert guidance on canoeing, fishing and diving in the rapids of the Asturias and around the Bay of Biscay, plus golfing in Gijon. It features a dynamic new two-colour layout for easy navigation. It features a new magazine style, combining stunning photography, tailored itineraries and a personal take on the country. It has clear, newly-designed two-colour maps throughout for increased ease of use. This is the only guides with full-colour touring maps of the whole region. There are extensive listings of hotels and restaurants - all personally recommended for a really local flavour.It also includes: 'Top Don't Miss' sights for each regional chapter, plus 'Author Choices' of personal favourite places to stay and eat.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This guide gives the background information, with one or two anecdotes. We like the Cadogan guides, and this one was up to their usual high standards.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Detailed guide to northern and northwestern Spain
24 Aug 2010
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I really appreciate the Cadogan Guides, including this one, for the in-depth information about sights and history, along with some information on hotels and restaurants. This guide provides far more detail and is more regionally specific than any other guide I discovered. What isn't clear, however, unless one "looks inside" is that the book includes only Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Castille y Leon, and as far east as the Basque area. It does NOT cover Catalunya. For great detail and sights that other guidebooks may not point out, as well as very interesting descriptions, I highly recommend this Cadogan Guide of Northern Spain.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great for planning, less useful on the ground, getting dated
17 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
We just completed a two week trip across (mostly) northern Spain and used this as one of our guides. It was very helpful in planning, with pretty decent recommendations for both hotels and restaurants. It provided very interesting background information on many of the sights and areas covered within. It is very well written, with some incisive analysis.
The book does have some downsides. The biggest is that some fairly large cities that are covered in the guide book (Oviedo and A Coruna, for example) do no have maps included with the coverage. So you'll need a map from another source to find the hotel the guide recommended you. Additionally, even for the cities that have maps, they don't always align with the recommendations. So, for example, just finding an exciting-sounding seafood place on the provided map can become a real exercise in frustration.
Also, while this has been updated since it was published in 2008, though, some of the information is getting dated. For example, it underestimated by about 30 euros (per person) the price of a restaurant in Santiago de Compostela. The accuracy of hotel websites listed is also somewhat hit-or-miss.
Hopefully another version will come out soon to deal with the datedness. As for the maps...find another source before you go. Don't do what we did and arrive in a town believing you can find a bus station because it is "near" the train station, only to wander aimlessly for 20 minutes before finding help.
The book does have some downsides. The biggest is that some fairly large cities that are covered in the guide book (Oviedo and A Coruna, for example) do no have maps included with the coverage. So you'll need a map from another source to find the hotel the guide recommended you. Additionally, even for the cities that have maps, they don't always align with the recommendations. So, for example, just finding an exciting-sounding seafood place on the provided map can become a real exercise in frustration.
Also, while this has been updated since it was published in 2008, though, some of the information is getting dated. For example, it underestimated by about 30 euros (per person) the price of a restaurant in Santiago de Compostela. The accuracy of hotel websites listed is also somewhat hit-or-miss.
Hopefully another version will come out soon to deal with the datedness. As for the maps...find another source before you go. Don't do what we did and arrive in a town believing you can find a bus station because it is "near" the train station, only to wander aimlessly for 20 minutes before finding help.
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