Spain Guidebook

Spain Guidebook

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Spain Guidebook

$29.99
  • Rick's picks for sights, eating, sleeping
  • In-depth coverage of our favorite Spanish destinations
  • Also includes Tangier (Morocco) and French Basque Country
  • Great self-guided neighborhood walks and museum tours
  • Includes handy full-color foldout map
What's Included

In Rick Steves Spain you'll find in-depth Rick-tested information on:

Barcelona and nearby

  • Montserrat
  • Figueres and Cadaqués
  • Sitges

Basque Country

  • San Sebastián
  • Bilbao and Guernica
  • Lequeitio and more villages on the Bay of Biscay
  • St-Jean-de-Luz, Bayonne, Biarritz, and French Basque villages

Camino de Santiago and nearby​

  • St-Jean-Pied-de-Port (France)
  • Pamplona
  • Burgos
  • León
  • O Cebreiro
  • Lugo and Cantabrian detours
  • Santiago de Compostela

Salamanca

Madrid and nearby​

  • El Escorial and the Valley of the Fallen
  • Segovia
  • Ávila

Toledo

Sevilla

Córdoba

Granada

Andalucía's White Hill Towns

  • Arcos de la Frontera
  • Ronda
  • Zahara and Grazalema
  • Jerez de la Frontera

Cádiz

Spain's South Coast

  • Nerja
  • Gibraltar
  • Tarifa

Tangier (Morocco)

Practicalities

  • Self-guided walks and museum tours
  • Easy-to-follow maps (including color maps of Spain, central Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, and Sevilla)​
  • Trip planning: When to go, recommended three-week itinerary, and pre-trip checklist
  • City-specific advice on planning your time and avoiding lines
  • Transportation: Trains, buses, city transit, and driving (including route tips)
  • Spanish history, culture, language, and cuisine
  • Handy Spanish survival phrases
  • Detailed advice on managing money, communicating, reserving rooms, handling emergencies, and other helpful hints

Also included: a 14½" x 19½" full-color foldout Planning Map that shows all of Spain and Portugal plus key driving distances/times, and, on the back, handy city close-ups (showing major sights) of Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, and Sevilla. (Note: This is a slightly smaller version of Rick's stand-alone Spain & Portugal Planning Map.)
Is This the Right Book for Me?

What's the difference between this Spain guidebook and Rick's Best of Spain guidebook?

Rick Steves Spain, the complete guide, offers more coverage of more destinations in a mostly black-and-white format.

The shorter Rick Steves Best of Spain guidebook focuses on Spain's top destinations and sights, is in full color, and is updated a little less frequently than the complete guide.

Both books are packed with hand-picked recommendations and Rick's travel advice and tips for saving time, money, and hassle.

Should I get the Barcelona guidebook (or Barcelona Pocket guide) in addition to the complete Spain guidebook?

If you're spending only a few days in Barcelona, Rick Steves Spain is all you're likely to need.

If, however, you're spending four days or more in Barcelona, the extra information in Rick Steves Barcelona can be worthwhile. It offers more in-depth sightseeing information, several additional self-guided city walks and museum/sight tours, and more specifics on shopping and nightlife, plus activities for kids. Other information is generally the same — the Barcelona chapter of Rick Steves Spain has nearly all the hotels, restaurants, and nitty-gritty practical advice for Barcelona that you'll find in the Rick Steves Barcelona guidebook.

It would make less sense to supplement Rick Steves Spain with the smaller Pocket Barcelona guide. While the Pocket guide has one walk and one cathedral tour that aren't included in the Barcelona chapter of Rick Steves Spain, it otherwise offers far more limited coverage of the city's sights, hotels, and restaurants.

Should I get any of the Snapshot guides for Spain in addition to the Spain guidebook?

No, because the various Snapshot guides for Spain are simply excerpted chapters taken directly from the complete Rick Steves Spain guidebook.
Updates and Feedback

Latest updates: When we learn of critical changes to the information in our guidebooks on Spain, we post them. (Of course, it's still smart to reconfirm critical transportation and sightseeing details locally.) Armed with a Rick Steves guidebook and these late-breaking updates, you're set for a great trip! Check our guidebook updates for Spain.

Submit feedback: Once you've used this book in Europe, we'd love to hear your feedback — good or bad — about our advice on sights, hotels, restaurants, and travel tips. We're also interested in any tips or discoveries you made while in Europe. Your comments help us improve our guidebooks for future travelers.
Our Product Guarantee

Every Rick Steves travel product comes with our guarantee that it will be free from material and manufacturing defects for the life of the product. If a defect appears, we will replace the product free of charge. This guarantee does not cover damage caused by an airline or other common carrier. Nor does it cover wear and tear to components and materials which may occur over time with use of the product.
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Product Details

Dimensions
8" x 4 ½" x 1"
Weight
1.25 lbs
Product Code
9781641716956
Author
Rick Steves
Pages
1069
Publication Date
July 2026 (20th edition)
Next Edition Arrives
July 2028
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benjamin m oswalt

Love it

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Marty Gilmore

Lots of good information, but I'm shocked that you do not include anything on Valencia.

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Anonymous

Rick Steves always creates great Europe guidebooks.

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Anonymous

This was part of our tour package for the Barcelona/Madrid trip for next year- April 18, 2027. I wondered why we received the package so early.
The Spain book we received was the older version, and the new Spain book came out in July 2026. I have since purchased the new version on Amazon.

Hi Katie,
Thanks for your feedback. We offer tour members the option to order their tour kit shortly after making a deposit because many travelers want their guidebook as early as possible to help with trip planning.
When a new edition is scheduled, we note its release date on the tour kit ordering page so travelers can decide whether they'd like to order right away or wait for the updated version. In your case, the guidebook available when you placed your order was the edition that was included with your tour kit.
We're sorry this was disappointing, and we'll reach out directly to see if there's anything we can do to help.
Happy travels, Rick Steves' Europe

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Deborah Garvey

Great guide book

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George Jacks

I previously purchased a Rick Steves travel book for Ireland, nd found it excellent. With my upcoming trip to Spain, I knew I need his book to be able to get the most out of my trip.

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Ted Mroz

Very helpful.

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MaryEllen Allen

Excellent inforamtion and organized very well.

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Anonymous

Very useful.

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Anonymous

I've started reading about the places we will be going in Spain which makes me super excited about the trip. Can't wait to see everything live!

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