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Top 10 Spain Guidebooks

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Spain is a diverse country with many things for the tourist to see and do. A good Spain guidebook will help you learn about the hidden places in Spain, give you maps and information about the tourist places, and cover food and dining in more detail than most websites. These specially selected Spain guidebooks will help you plan your trip and enjoy your visit. Find a guidebook that interests you, then click compare prices to see the best prices on the web for each guide.

1. Lonely Planet Spain

Lonely Planet is a basic guidebook for all budgets. You'll find more than 145 maps, including metro maps for Madrid and Barcelona and lots of practical information for seeing Spain.
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2. Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Spain

Eyewitness Guides are beautiful books, full of illustrations, maps, and pictures that give you a good feel for the country. Descriptions are usually short without a lot of detail.
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3. The Rough Guide to Spain

The Rough Guide to Spain is a guide that describes even the smallest Spanish town in careful detail and clear format, with a minimum of illustrations. It includes useful maps and recommendations for where to stay and eat. A good complement to the Eyewitness Guide with more details.
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4. Travelers Tales Spain

Journey into Spain with some of the world's best travel writers as they tell about their travel experiences in Spain. Although it's not strictly a guidebook, it will give you ideas for where to go and what to see in Spain.
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5. Frommer's Spain's Best-Loved Driving Tours

Spain's Best-loved Driving Tours has 25 suggested itineraries with detailed driving directions and more than 100 color maps and photos.
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6. Frommer's Spain 2010

Frommer's 2008 edition is a comprehensive guidebook to Spain. It has color photos, city descriptions, recommendations and opinions, and off the beaten track suggestions.
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7. Rick Steves' Spain 2010 With Map

Travel guru Rick Steves recommends places to visit in Spain with information about transportation, lodging, and restaurants.
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8. The Most Beautiful Villages of Spain

This book has beautiful photographs of over 30 of Spain's charming villages with brief essays about each. It also includes a short section on dining and accommodations.
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9. Eating and Drinking in Spain

A Spanish menu reader and restaurant guide covering the whole of Spain with suggestions for places to eat throughout the country. There is advice on dining etiquette and a Spanish pronunciation guide.
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10. The Story of Spain

The Story of Spain: The Dramatic History of Europe's Most Fascinating Country is a good book for the traveler who wants to learn more about Spain's history.
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