Don't confuse the Knopf city guide with the Knopf Guide. The Knopf Guides are quite good. The city guide, of which I have mistakenly bought several, is very short, and devotes at least 80% to where to eat, where to stay, where to shop, where to find night life...20% or less useful info of what to visit if your'e a tourist. And the maps are pretty useless too.

This is not a very practical guide book. The descriptions of hotels/places to see are very brief and the guide does not suggest good itinaries to tour Madrid. Pages on the right are random photo samplings of tourist spots/hotels which give the reader a good overview of the place. The description of hotels does not include specific prices only price ranges. First time visitors to Madrid are better off getting the "Eyewitness Travel Guides".

A very pretty book with lots of glossy pictures, but too much information is left out. Might be good if you were to be in Madrid for one day only, other than that, the "Essential" and "Time Out" guides are much better. This book is very superficial.

Don't confuse the Knopf city guide with the Knopf Guide. The Knopf Guides are quite good. The city guide, of which I have mistakenly bought several, is very short, and devotes at least 80% to where to eat, where to stay, where to shop, where to find night life...20% or less useful info of what to visit if your'e a tourist. And the maps are pretty useless too.