Finding Travel Books About Madrid

Travel Books About the History of Madrid

“Madrid: A Cultural and Literary Companion” is said to read more like someone’s journal of their stay in Madrid and what places they enjoyed visiting and learning about (as experienced by a non-Spaniard.) Author Elizabeth Nash occasionally delves deeply into certain parts of Madrid that interest her (and maybe readers.)

Travel Books About the People of Madrid

“From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth-Century Spain” by Carlos M. N. Eire may sound like a morbid subject , but during the Counter-Reformation, Spain was all about death and its relationship to  religion. Death was part of rituals for earning merits to enter heaven.