Difficult to choose their travel guide. Because it needs to square the circle contain enough practical information to prepare for the trip, help navigate the city with plans readable, offering detailed comment on Monuments and Sites ... while leaving room the unexpected ...
For a small one-week stay in Seville and Cordoba, I left with 4 guides:
Blue Guide Southern Spain: Andalusia, Murcia
Strengths: Art, history, civilization, The most comprehensive guide of the cultural perspective. The main museums are commented room by room. Special mention for the literary excerpts.
Weaknesses: Good overall plans but no little plans of districts. No address book. Few illustrations.
To whom? The reader of the Blue Guide is a pure spirit, he is not eating, not sleeping and is not shopping. In contrast, the Blue Guide will satisfy the intellectual demanding.
Blue Guide Southern Spain: Andalusia, Murcia, Hachette Tourisme, Guides blue collection, March 2005, 512P., € 23.90.
Guide Gallimard Andalusia-Seville
Strengths: The wealth of illustrations: photographs, drawings, diagrams to better understand the architectural explanations.
Weaknesses: The text is sometimes too short especially for Cordoba, which deserved further developments. Good plans together, but the neighborhood maps are not very readable. Address book too brief.
To whom? : The Gallimard guide is for lovers of images.
Guide Andalucia - Seville, encyclopedic collection of foreign travel, Gallimard 2007
432 pages, € 29.00.
Backpacker's Guide Andalucia 2008
Strengths: a wealth of places to stay and eat for all budgets. Practical information useful to prepare the trip.
Weaknesses: some non-existent iconography and cultural developments.
To whom? broke the tourist will find really good shots.
Andalusia Backpacker's Guide 2008, Hachette, 450 p., € 12.90.
A long weekend in Seville
Strengths: The signposted summarized in a small map of the area very convenient. Good addresses.
Weaknesses: very Cultural Information poor. More pages devoted to trendy fashion boutiques as monuments. A vision of the city very superficial.
To whom? The "fashionista" bobos in search of trendy places.
"A great weekend in Seville, Hachette, collection a great weekend, 144 p., April 2008, 10.75 €.
Overall, I recommend preparing his trip with the Routard (transport, accommodation) and, locally, using the routes in "a big weekend, completing with cultural information Guide blue and Gallimard.
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