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100 places in Spain every woman should go / Patricia Harris.

by Harris, Patricia, 1949-

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Travelers' Tales, an imprint of Solas House, [2016]

Women -- Travel -- Spain -- Guidebooks.

Women travelers -- Spain -- Guidebooks.

Spain -- Guidebooks.

Spain -- Description and travel.

100 places series.

9781609521196 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

One hundred places in Spain every woman should go

Hundred places in Spain every woman should go

Spain : 100 places every woman should go

xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Heartland : Madrid & Castilla -- El Norte : La Rioja & Green Spain -- La Mancha & Moorish Spain -- North by Northeast : Catalan Spain.

Drawing on three decades of intimate acquaintance with the country, Patricia Harris leads readers along twisting mountain roads, down to the docks of fishing villages, into the shoe outlets of Elche, and out to the muddy saffron fields of La Mancha. She takes you down city streets of Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, and San Sebastian to dark flamenco clubs, sybaritic public baths, endlessly inventive tapas bars, design shops full of mantillas and fans, and into a brightly tiled chocolatería for hot chocolate and churros at 3 a.m. She explores the art from Velázquez to Picasso, architecture from the phantasmagorical vision of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia to the cool suspension spans of Santiago Calatrava. She tells the tales of some formidable Spanish women, from a fourth-century B.C. goddess to a queen who wrested Spain from the Moors, to the twenty-first-century winemakers who elevated Spain's Toro and Rueda onto the world stage.

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