Cities of Spain

by David Gilmour

A chronicle of the nation as seen through nine major cities. Mr. Gilmour captures their history, atmosphere, and culture in handsome prose.

Genres: Spain

223 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

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Sir David Robert Gilmour, 4th Baronet is a Scottish author. He is the first son of Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, 3rd Baronet, and Lady Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch. HRH Princess Margaret was his sponsor at his Christening. He became the 4th baronet on the death of his father in 2007.

Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.

Gilmour is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and four children.

Reviews

[Christiane]

3.5 stars.

Each relatively short chapter is a mixture of facts, quotes, anecdotes and the author’s subjective impressions of Spain’s main cities, their history, culture, traditions, architecture, mentality of the inhabitants, etc. Even though my edition was published in 1992 and is therefore less than up-to-date the book succeeds in providing a basic idea of these places with some inexplicable omissions (e.g. no mention of Maimonides in the chapter on Córdoba). Unfortunately, in my opinion David Gilmour’s writing is always a bit lacking in sparkle and wit and the grainy black and white photographs provided by the Tourist Office of Spain are totally uninspiring.

[Davy Bennet Surf]

So many bad reviews here I decided to keep it.

I think this is a Pink Floyd guy.

Want to go to Spain, this looks sparky enough to give some good ideas, outside of Fodor's etc.
Don't wanna be a boggeddownaguy.

[Patrick Ryan]

Meh.

[Jon Stonecash]

Partial reading. Just the cities that we will be visiting.

Hard to judge without going to Spain to check up on the author.