Guidebook for Catalonia?

Lonely Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Catalonia-Lonely-Planet-Spain/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A67685%2Cp_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A5483157011

Some FREE resources....

• Welcome to Catalonia
• Catalonia Experience
• Map of roads in Catalonia
• Routes in Catalonia
• Routes and getaways
• What is Catalonia
• Hiking Costa Brava thru her Camins de Ronda - (what are Camins de Ronda)
• A great site to discover our patrimony across Catalonia
• ... and to explore visually www.infocatalonia.eu

I suggest to carefully read these brochures, there's a trove of information in them. Once you've drafted a rough itinerary, there are plenty more resources online with specific information about the sites you might be interested. Here in Catalonia we're quite an "online" small nation :)

Thank you both.

I will carefully go through all of the sites you shared Enric. After benefiting from your advice on this forum in my two previous trips to Barcelona, I am of the opinion that you should write a guidebook for the region. I would be first in line to buy it. 😊

Now we have to queue for Enric?
Oh alright, where does the line start??
Or can I pay extra to queue jump?
Darn, he's worth it.

LOL!..... thanks guys for your praise.

Funny thing is that I am seriously thinking about it. Yet if I do, I'm afraid I won't be able to promote it here.... Laura (RS) wouldn't probably like me trying "to dent" Rick Steve's own empire, hahahaha!

Btw, I did already write one, aimed at parents visiting Barcelona with kids/teens :)

I have used Ricks guides for decades, back when they were strictly itinerary planners, especially during my "blitz" trips to Europe when I was younger. Now that I am older and have more time and money I still find them useful for initial visits to places I have never been. The books are very accessible and he has definitely found his niche. But I prefer to linger now, travel slowly and return to areas I enjoy. So guidebooks that are more in depth without being textbooks would appeal to me. For all Ricks "back door" talk, he goes to the same few popular places and sites as every other guidebook. He just makes it easier for tourists to plan their time and get around. Which is his appeal. His books are fairly useless for repeat visitors as he covers little else besides the big name sites and day trip towns. So I think there is plenty of room for new guidebooks, perhaps with a different target audience. I look forward to yours! I hope you go for it! Laura, perhaps a partnership?

We prefer the Cadogan Guides to any others, precisely because they do what you are looking for. They include detailed information on less well-known places that other guides omit. I'm pretty sure they publish one for Catalonia. I usually order them from Amazon, because they are rarely found in book stores.

Thanks Rosalyn. I will check it out.

Rosalyn, the most recent Cadagan guide to Catalonia seems to be from 2009. (Lonely Planet was 2006) Someone gave it a good review as late as 2014. What's your opinion of how useful it would be just for general itinerary planning , especially outside of Barcelona? The library doesn't have them so I can't look at them before ordering online. Thanks. The websites mentioned by Enric are very useful and I may go exclusively with those, but there is something about having a book that I miss. I do have several guides that are primarily Barcelona with the typical three or four day trips that are more recent.