The Costa Blanca is ideal for countryside exploration all year round. The car tours lead through fertile valleys smothered in blossom or sweet-scented fruit to delightful inland villages. Windmills, water-falls and 'snow wells' feature among the picnic settings. But the rugged silhouettes of the area's many sierras dominate this landscape -- an irresistable attraction for walkers. Book jacket.
This guide to Costa Brava and Barcelona is for walkers, botanists and anyone who wants to get off the beaten track. Included are short walk and picnic suggestions, along with topographical walking maps and a fold-out touring map.
The rugged mountains of the Costa Blanca offer wonderful walking in a landscape of pinnacled ridges, enormous crags, and shady pines. Orange and almond groves enhance the valleys, whilst attractive mountain villages provide hospitality, offering a taste of the real Spain, far removed in character from the developed coastal strip. The walks are described in two books, which split roughly into West (book 1) and East (book 2).
This guide to Costa Brava and Barcelona is for walkers, botanists and anyone who wants to get off the beaten track. Included are short walk and picnic suggestions, along with topographical walking maps and a fold-out touring map.
This guidebook describes 50 circular walks and scrambles exploring the Costa Blanca mountains, around the resorts of Alicante, Benidorm and Calp. These routes range from gentle strolls to demanding days with steep climbs, and from 3-20km in distance. The Mediterranean coast is one of Europe's most popular winter sun adventure destinations. In general UK visitors are best suited to the heat from late autumn to early spring. Beyond the beaches and high rises lies a completely different world of accessible, rocky mountains and knife-edge ridges that stretch away in long chains of gleaming white limestone pinnacles, and the range of walks ensures that everyone can enjoy this spectacular Spanish landscape. Walking on Costa Blanca also includes background information on local geology, wildlife and history, and planning details on where to go, where to stay and what to take.
Top 10 lists showcase the best places to visit in the region, from the Castillo de Santa Bárbara in Alicante to the mountainous village of Guadalest. Six easy-to-follow itineraries explore the most interesting sights in the Costa Blanca-from the historic center of Orihuela to the beaches of Costa Cálida-while reviews of the best hotels, shops, and restaurants in Costa Blanca will help you plan your perfect trip. The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Costa Blanca.
Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings. This book follows the development of several threads of the concept of landscape as they have evolved across disciplines and across countries, leading to the European Landscape Convention and the designation of cultural landscapes as World Heritage Sites. The book introduces the key notions of landscape, such as landscape as meaning, as picture, as scale, as scenery and as place. It also considers the various factors which influence the way in which landscape is perceived now and in the past, with all of the senses. Finally, it looks of the various ways of protecting, managing and enhancing the landscape, taking into account a future of climate change. Beautifully illustrated and including 'capsules' in each section which provide fascinating insights into subjects from reading pictures, to mapping and GIS, through a discussion of the range of types of landscape to issues such as eco-museums, this book provides an excellent introductory overview for any students with an interest in the landscape around us.
This guide to Malta, Gozo and Comina includes: topographical walking maps; fold-out touring maps; many short walks and picnic suggestions - suitable for hot summer days and for those with young children; and an update service with specific route-change information.
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