Madrid (Cities of the Imagination)
Contributors: Michael Jacobs (Foreword)
Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
Published: March 20, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781902669274
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Spain; Travel
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.