Shopping in tourist shops during our trip to Spain, I found that the best options for souvenir books always seemed to come from the publisher Dosde. They had the best pictures and the most appropriate level of detail in their explanations. I ended up buying and reading three: Tilework in the Alhambra, The Alhambra of Granada, and Modernisme. I also tried to buy The Royal Alcazar of Seville, but the English edition was out of stock. The books aren't perfect –– the callouts don't always match the illustration and they tend to just drift off near the end –– but they provide me with what I need as a tourist.
I sometimes wish I were the kind of person who wants scholarly books like Reading the Alhambra, but really I just want the pretty pictures.
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