Movida's Guide to Barcelona

Movida's Guide to Barcelona

Author: Frank Camorra

Publisher: The Miegunyah Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0522858341

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Frank Camorra, chef of the renowned Spanish restaurant Movida, teams up with food writer Richard Cornish in this beautifully illustrated, insider's guide to Barcelona. They share the best culinary experiences the city offers, from small, hidden bars to the hot new award-winning restaurants and the places they love to return to. They reveal where to find the most sensational Catalan dishes, the best hotels and offer unique local knowledge from their favourite chefs. Whether it's reviewing the best value tapas or a Garibaldi cocktail, taking you on a tour of the city's famous Boqueria market or its iconic architecture, Frank and Richard capture the intensity of one of the most exciting destinations in the world today.


DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Spain

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Spain

Author: DK Travel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1465454853

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world, from its capital city of Madrid to its Moorish cities of the south. Watch flamenco dancers stamp their heels in Seville, discover the beaches and coves of Ibiza, and visit the Dalí Theatre-Museum just outside of Barcelona. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps of Barcelona and Madrid include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain truly shows you this country as no one else can.


Following Franco

Following Franco

Author: Duncan Wheeler

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1526105209

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The transition to democracy that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 was once hailed as a model of political transformation. But since the 2008 financial crisis it has come under intense scrutiny. Today, a growing divide exists between advocates of the Transition and those who see it as the source of Spain’s current socio-political bankruptcy. This book revisits the crucial period from 1962 to 1992, exposing the networks of art, media and power that drove the Transition and continue to underpin Spanish politics in the present. Drawing on rare archival materials and over three hundred interviews with politicians, artists, journalists and ordinary Spaniards, including former prime minister Felipe Gonzalez (1982–96), Following Franco unlocks the complex and often contradictory narratives surrounding the foundation of contemporary Spain.


DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain

Author: DK

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1465422129

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sights, along with street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets. Detailed transportation and other practical information will help you to get around easily by train, bus, or car. What's new in DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: -New itineraries based on length of stay, regional destinations, and themes. -Brand-new hotel and restaurants listings including DK's Choice recommendations. -Restaurant locations plotted on redrawn area maps and listed with sights. -Redesigned and refreshed interiors make the guides even easier to read. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain truly shows you this destination as no one else can. Now available in PDF format.


Time Out Barcelona Guide

Time Out Barcelona Guide

Author: Penguin Books

Publisher: Time Out Guides

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780140259728

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An essential handbook for any visitor to Spain's most colorful city, this Time Out guide is packed with critical and up-to-the-minute details on the city's sights, arts, and entertinment. It includes information on accommodations, clubs, restaurants, fiestas and festivals, and trips out of the city to mountains, beaches, and villages of Catalonia. color maps. Color and b&w photos throughout.


MTV Spain

MTV Spain

Author: Fernando Gayesky

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-05-07

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 0764587722

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The Coolest Deals On Everything —from drinks in old-school cuevas, to wining and dining on tapas crawls, and sweet digs in designer hotels The Best Places to Get Your Fiesta On —whether you’re in the mood to chill, dance, dress up, get wet, or get wild (or some combination thereof) The Hottest Music and Nightlife —from electronic mega festivals, to gritty Flamenco peñas, and drumming circles around bonfires The Insider Eating and Drinking Scene —from bull's tail and Michelin stars to foam tortillas and Spanish hot chocolate The Best Spanish Attractions —From all things bullish (fighting, running, and otherwise), to bargain hunting at flea markets, skydiving in a remote region of Aragon, or arting and museuming among the masters in Madrid and Barcelona A What’s What Guide for Following Your Bliss —Walk the trail of the medieval pilgrims, dive for underwater roman ruins, relax Moorish style in an Arabian bath, or siesta on a sunny, white-sand beach Exploring Spain, MTV Style - free podcast on Frommers.com


A Taste of Barcelona

A Taste of Barcelona

Author: H. Rosi Song

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-24

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1538107848

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Widely associated with avant-garde gastronomy and lavish food markets, Barcelona has become a top destination for gourmands and chefs around the world, especially after the spectacular rise of chef Ferran Adrià of the famed elBulli, soon to be reborn as elBulli1846. Barcelona is a city that attracts millions of visitors in search of art and culinary experiences while cookery apprentices from around the world arrive looking to perfect their skills and expand their gastronomic horizon. The city offers an unequaled combination of restaurants, chefs, restauranteurs, media and local government initiatives to help those who arrive seeking an extraordinary culinary experience. But how has the city established itself as a global culinary referent while becoming synonymous with cutting-edge cuisine? This book narrates Barcelona’s urban and culinary development from the Middle Ages to the present, tracing the origins and the growth of the culinary prestige of this part of Catalonia. Barcelona has been a cosmopolitan center since the 1700s because of its location and busy port. The city has always been well supplied with food, and its residents built a strong culinary tradition enlivened by its contact with other cuisines and novel products afforded by its geographic location and the people who migrated to the area. With literature, painting, music and architecture, cooking has been a crucial activity in creating and maintaining a Catalan identity. Past, present and future visitors of the city will find a fascinating history of the unforgettable culinary importance of one of the most popular cities of Spain.


Barcelona Precincts

Barcelona Precincts

Author: Ben Holbrook

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2018-04-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1743585241

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Barcelona Precincts is your guide to the coolest places to shop, eat and drink in the city’s 12 hottest precincts. From independent ateliers to Michelin-starred marvels and traditional tapas restaurants, this book offers a curated hit list of the best iconic places and hidden gems that only a local would know. Each precinct chapter comes with stunning imagery, maps, an interview with a creative local and a ‘While You’re Here’ section highlighting major sights and cultural attractions in this vibrant Mediterranean metropolis. And you can now access a free digital download of this book to take with you on your travels, so you can keep this book at home as a beautiful keepsake. Just go to hardiegrant.com/travel for more info.


Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies

Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies

Author: Tatjana Pavlovic

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0791487695

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Focusing on Spanish culture and society in the second half of the twentieth century, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies traverses a variety of disciplines: literature, film studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and history, to examine crucial moments of cultural transition. Beginning with an analysis of the period of autarky—Spain's economic, cultural, and ideological isolation under Francisco Franco's regime— Pavlović then explores the tumultuous passage to capitalism in the late 1950s and 1960s. She follows this by revisiting the complex political situation following Franco's death and points out the difficulties in Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Combining a strong theoretical background with a detailed study of marginalized texts (La fiel infantería), genres (the Spanish comedy known as the comedia sexy celtibérica), and film directors (Jesús Franco), Pavlović reveals the construction of Spanish national identity through years of cultural tensions.


My Year Without Meat

My Year Without Meat

Author: Richard Cornish

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 0522864120

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When food writer Richard Cornish was so overcome by the aroma of the roast leg of lamb he had buckled into the passenger seat next to him that he pulled over to the side of the road and tore it apart with his bare hands, he knew he had a problem. He began to examine what it means to eat meat by becoming vegetarian for a year. My Year Without Meat is a surprising and bittersweet journey that changed Richard's body, his values and how he cooks. It’s a meditation on ethical meat, an ode to vegetables and a cautionary tale about our relationship to food—as told by a self-confessed meat lover. Peppered with funny anecdotes, eye-opening facts and conversations with some of Australia's best local producers, farmers and top chefs, My Year Without Meat thoughtfully explores how and why Australians consume food the way we do. It will make you rethink the contents of your supermarket trolley, how you prepare your evening meal and where your food comes from.