| Barcelona Contributor(s): Hughes, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679743839 ISBN-13: 9780679743835 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and "seny -- the Catalan word for triumphant common sense. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Travel | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Travel | Museums, Tours, Points Of Interest |
| Dewey: 946.72 |
| LCCN: 92056349 |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 5.28" W x 8.09" (1.30 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny--the Catalan word for triumphant common sense. |