First appeared in 1926, and yet it’s as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer.
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They say your journey starts once you decide to take one! To help you get excited and prepared for your Fresco Tour, we’ve developed a list of some of our favorite books and we’ve thrown in a few films too.
First appeared in 1926, and yet it’s as fresh and clean and fine as it ever was, maybe finer.
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Great guide book and resource for traveling in Northern Spain.
An authentic small plates cookbook from the top Basque chef in America.
This is the map for Spain’s South, Andalucia.
Tales of the Alhambra, which is Washington Irving’s dreamlike description of Spain’s Granada and the beautiful Moorish castle, remains one of the most entertaining travelogues ever written.
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What a poet! I have never seen grace and genius…come together in anyone else as they did in him
Source: Pablo Neruda
His memoir about southern Spain would set a standard for literary travel writing.
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This is the best book Ernest Hemingway has written, the fullest, the deepest, the truest. It will, I think, be one of the major novels in American literature.
Source: The New York Times Book Review
… Quierós has a magisterial sense of social stratification, family and the way eros can make an opera of private life. The novel crystallizes the larger unreality of an incestuous society, one that drifts, even the elite heatedly acknowledge, into decline. This novel stands with the great achievements of fiction.
Source: Pubisher's Weekly
A well-known Nobel Prize author, Saramago gives us the mystery and brilliance of a country he loves so dearly. His descriptions and reflections serve less as a guidebook and more of friendly travel companion.
A documentary profile of six pilgrims taking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage through Spain.
From the unexpected and, often times, amusing experiences along ‘The Way,’ Tom (Martin Sheen) begins to learn what it means to be a citizen of the world again. Through his unresolved relationship with his son, he discovers the difference between ‘the life we live and the life we choose.’”
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