Features gastronomic goldmines from five-star restaurants like Ferran Adrià's El Bulli to hole-in-the-wall tapas bars. Highlights the best wineries, hiking, beaches, and skiing outside the city.

The Barcelona Shortlist selects the very best of Barcelona's sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife and entertainment, with Time Out's trademark expertise. It also takes you straight to the Iatest venues, tips you off to the news and fashions and gives you the dates that malter. This is the complete reference for anyone visiting the city, in a handy size and easy-to-use format.

Our expert local authors introduce Barcelona's past and present with their trademark appreciation of contemporary culture and in-depth coverage of the city's architectural and artistic treasures. The guide provides insight into the most compelling attractions and listings that are bang up to date with cafes, restaurants, shops and the pick of venues to visit after dark.The book's easy to use format, suggested itineraries, selected listings, coverage of main sights and detailed mapping make it the perfect pocket-sized companion for a visit to the city.

Time Out's Shortlist guides offer all the usual visitor information, presented in a way designed to take you straight to what you're looking for: reviews of the classic sights and venues in area-by-area chapters, maps with all the entries pinpointed, customised itineraries and visitor basics, all illustrated with inspiring photography. To help you make city-wide choices, they include critical and useful venue selections in a variety of fields u our Shortlists.

Features gastronomic goldmines from five-star restaurants like Ferran Adrià's El Bulli to hole-in-the-wall tapas bars. Highlights the best wineries, hiking, beaches, and skiing outside the city.

"TimeOut's Shortlist pocket guide selects the very best that Barcelona has to offer. Our expert local authors introduce Barcelona's past and present with their trademark appreciation of contemporary culture and in-depth coverage of the city's architectural and artistic treasures. The guide provides insight into the most compelling attractions and listings that are bang up to date with cafes, restaurants, shops and the pick of venues to visit after dark. The book's easy to use format, suggested itineraries, selected listings, coverage of main sights and detailed mapping make it the perfect pocket-sized companion for a visit to the city." -- Provided by publisher.

Annotation Madrid emerges from several years under wraps to reveal its new facelift. Streets have been prettified, boulevards swept through and transport untangled. This in addition to its perennial attractions, whether your interests lie in spectacular opera productions or chirpy folkloric zarzuela; in cutting-edge cuisine or ancient, tiled tabernas; in designer-shoe shopping or mooching around flea markets. Put together by journalists resident in the city, Time Out Madrid also covers the artistic jewels housed in the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia, as well as the etiquette of watching a bullfight or joining in with a flamenco performance, plus where to stay and how to escape the city heat.

Barcelona barely has time to take down the bunting between its rollicking festivals-when there isn't an all night fiesta happening on the street, there's more likely a party on the beach ( only ten minutes away) and never any shortage of action in its clubs and bars. Gentler pursuits are also myriad: the city's museums have got it all coverd from Picasso and Miro to perfume and an outstanding aquarium.It's galleries are among the most avant garde in Europe and its history written large in the churches and perfectly preserved medieval alleyways of the Barri Gotic. Time Out's local journalists give you the inside scoop on where to stay, eat, shop and what to see. Suggested day-trips to coast, country and city are also included in the guide.