Aquitaine Books & Maps

Time to gen up! 

In our travels we have come across many good travel guides, particularly the ones below. All have a useful language section including glossary of everyday phrases and useful vocabulary. Any good bookseller online will have these guides in stock.

Eyewitness Travel Guides: Dordogne, Bordeaux & The South-west Coast

Insight Guides: Southwest France

Cadogan Guides: Bilbao & The Basque Lands; Gascony & The Pyrenees

The Green Guide: Atlantic Coast

Michelin map number 524 covers the region of Aquitaine.

For a bit of easy holiday reading try Martin Calder's A Summer in Gasconyor Celia Brayfield's A Writer's Year in the Béarn.

If you want to purchase some maps or guides before you travel, there is anonline mapstore we like called Stanfords.