Madrid (Cities of the Imagination)
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd
Published: February 1, 2001
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781902669267
Subjects: Spain; Travel & holiday guides
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.