MADRID POCKET GUIDE (Pocket Guides)
Edition: Pocket edition
Publisher: Berlitz Guides
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9782831577005
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel Guides; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Spain; Europe - Spain & Portugal
First sentence: For a half millennium or more, Madrid idled as a provincial backwater, rarely noticed on the arid central plains of Castile, until Felipe II plucked it from his royal cap in 1561 and proclaimed it the capital of Spain.