Secret Madrid - an Unusual Guide (Jonglez Secret Travel Guides) (Local Guides by Local People): A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar (Jonglez Secret Guides) - Softcover

Veronica Ramirez Muro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2361951851 ISBN 13: 9782361951856

Publisher: Jonglez, 2018

Synopsis

Let Secret Madrid guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Madrid guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious visitors alike.

Have your favourite pet blessed, visit an underground mine in the centre of Madrid, see the astounding liquefaction of the blood of Saint Pantaleon once a year, meet Spain's only Catholic exorcist, find out how the king had his medicine made using alchemy, smell the apple odour that wafts once a year from the still-intact body of Mariana de Jesus who died in the 17th century, visit an underground art gallery, dine in a car park... Madrid is overflowing with extraordinary and little-known places and curiosities. You just have to know where to look.

Fully revised and updated, Secret Madrid is an essential guide for those who thought they knew Madrid well, or for those looking to discover the hidden side of the city.

About this title

About the Author

Mario Utrilla Trinidad (Spain, 1971): Writer, university professor, doctor and traveller. Born in Madrid, where he lives, he usually travels its streets in search of places to enjoy the art, culture and life that permeate the city, photographing evocative corners that populate the capital of Spain. Awarded with several literary prizes, he has published five scientific books, a novel, three children's stories, two travel books and eighty articles. Veronica Ramirez Muro: Journalist. She lives between Madrid and Lima. She is the author of "Secret Barcelona" and "Secret Madrid" for Jonglez Publishing. She is also the author of "Coca Express". She has written for various newspapers and magazines in Spain and Latin America. She is currently the producer of La Otra Ruta, a travel programme broadcast on social media and Peruvian TV.

From the Back Cover

Let Secret Madrid guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Madrid travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of this beautiful city.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonglez
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 2361951851
• ISBN 13: 9782361951856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256