Rough Guide Ltd.

INTRODUCTION Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of eleven million people differs from "all those Slavs". Hungary was likened by the poet Ady to a "river ferry, continually travelling between East and West, with always...

MARRAKESH The last few years have seen Marrakesh well and truly established as Morocco's capital of chic, attracting the rich and famous from Europe and beyond. Yet the city has always had a mystique about it. It's a place of immense beauty, sitting beneath the dramatic peaks of the High Atlas...

Introduction Amsterdam is a compact, instantly likeable capital. It's appealing to look at and pleasant to walk arotmd, an intriguing mix of the parochial and the international; it also has a welcoming attitude towards visitors and a uniquely youthful orientation, shaped by the liberal...

Intrcductionto Barcelona Barcelona - Spain's second city, and the Mediterranean's most exciting destination - sets the template for urban style, hip design and sheer nonstop energy. Where others tinker at the edges, time and again Barcelona has reinvented itself, from medieval maritime power to...