BARCELONA, the new app in the Art & Culture series, is something different in tourism: a cultural travel guide that offers comprehensive, expert coverage of all the sights and attractions, all the things to do and see, complete practical information and detailed maps.
BARCELONA is the indispensable guide to Europe’s most exciting city, for exploring the depth and richness of its history and its vibrant life of today. We don’t do hotels and restaurants and shopping; instead, we offer a cultural companion that can enrich your visit like no other guide, on paper or pixels.
BARCELONA is where Europe goes to play. She’s a city that sparkles and fizzes, making the world watch just to see what she’ll do next. Plunge straight into her buzzing heart with this remarkably in-depth app by two old pros who have been writing about the city for decades:
• Sparkling insights and handy tips on visiting 130 famous and secret sights, from Antoní Gaudí’s Sagrada Família to a bomb shelter from the Civil War
• Up-to-date opening hours, prices, and details of all sites
• Day trips—all you need to know to visit Sitges, Monserrat, the Dalí museum in Figueres, Girona, PortAventura (Spain's biggest theme park) and Tarragona
• Biographies of all the great Modernista artists and architects
• Fun alternatives for exploring Barcelona differently by day and night: with a local on a bespoke tour, on a scooter, or in a three-wheel GoCar
• Unusual sidelights—discover Barcelona's secret fixation with bats and learn how truly nutty the great Gaudí really was
• Walking tours of Barcelona’s most fascinating and up-and-coming neighbourhoods
• Discover Barcelona’s vibrant music scene from opera to Manu Chao’s Rumba de Barcelona, along with the best venues and where to buy tickets
• A menu decoder and a list of useful phrases in Spanish and Catalan
• Up-to-date practical info on how to get around the city, and how to save money with special offers and discount cards
• Great places to take the kids
• A complete list of the important traditional and cultural festivals
• Comprehensive search function lets you quickly find anything in the text
About the Authors
Authors of seven books on Spain and Catalonia, Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls (www.facarospauls.com) have been around the block a few times. After a career as travel writers spanning centuries, they know the Mediterranean like a flea knows a dog. Currently installed just over the Pyrenees in southwest France, Barcelona is where they go for a dirty weekend and some stuffed squids.
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Great update to an already impressive guide
This is a fabulously written, well organised, beautifully Illustrated guide to a wonderful city. Barcelona Unbound is not just a useful travel guide, but is also filled with fascinating, humorous, educational and entertaining information about the city and it's people.
Whether you are planning to travel to Barcelona, or just interested in
learning more about the city, I can thoroughly recommend Barcelona Unbound. It
has a well organised and simple navigation system makes finding
anything you may want easy and quick. It is packed with information
that is both entertaining and well written, making this app not just a
useful guide to getting around the city, but an endlessly fascinating
and inspiring travelling companion.
Inspirational travel guide
A user friendly guide with fascinating history and local information that the writers brought to life, inspiring many enjoyable visits and day trips. Living in Singapore, planning a trip to somewhere so faraway was made easy, the results were always inspirational.
I found myself transported to the city sights. My children spend hours looking through the guide happily.
Fantastic!
Works very well on my iPad & iPod Touch. I really like the writing style - easy and entertaining to read, really interesting background as well as practical and useful information. Excellent maps and stunning photos (esp on iPad) with very good navigation to access the real wealth of information. Much much better than more well known travel guides. You can tell the creators really love this city!
clear, concise and beautiful
Always had my doubts about travel guide apps, but this is straightforward to navigate, fast, clear, and full of inspiring photos. The organisation of the content is what makes it work, from the top sights to the links to relevant maps to the neighbourhood eating and drinking places - you can see that if you were on the spot you could instantly get the right advice and ideas in a couple of clicks. And then, wherever you want to read or see more background, you can choose to do so, and enjoy the witty and erudite writing. The authors have literally decades of experience writing top-ranking travel guide books to Europe, and it shows. Just downloaded the second update too, and it's lovely :-) Nice to see regular updates and the latest one is great!
