Madrid
Subtitle: A Cultural and Literary Companion (Cities of the Imagination)
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781566563680
Subjects: Spain; Popular culture; History; Travel; Travel - Foreign; Social life and customs; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Europe - General; Description and travel; Madrid; Madrid (Spain)
First sentence: Madrid in high summer-when July burns into August-is a terrible place, a searing empty frying pan, in the words of the city's best-known chronicler, Benito Perez Galdos.