Scenarios of Spanish crime fiction that you want to visit.

Vigo: Setting for the novels by Domingo Villar, starring Inspector Leo Caldas and Deputy Inspector Estévez.

Crime novels with a local setting triumph in the Spanish market. Walking the streets of towns and cities add a plus to the investigation of a murder for locals and tourists. Not all locations are known, at least they are not until the saga in question does not triumph in the market. As a clear example, the fame acquired by Baztán after Dolores Redondo's trilogy, after it won the Planeta Prize. A Navarre region unknown to general Spanish tourism, which today sees its streets and forests full of bridges and vacations.

Not only does this happen with the novel of intrigue, also with the historical novel or the television series, but the meticulous detail that a criminal investigation requires is the perfect plot to reveal architectural details without tiring the reader with the descriptions. These are just some examples.

Vitoria: Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi.

With his Trilogy of the White City, he has put Vitoria on the national tourism scene. Walk the cobbled streets of the old town, the cathedral and other relevant monuments with the help of its researcher, Kraken, an inspector with a tendency to introspection and guilt. Many episodes in the history of Vitoria frame the trilogy, giving readers an almost tourist guide perspective.

Castellon: Julio Cesar Cano

From the hand of the inspector Monfort, the reader goes through the main tourist attractions of Castellón, from the market to the auditorium, the corpses are scattered around this city, outside the areas of tourist interest, which yields to the beaches of the province. More than one beach tourist is approaching the city now to tour the scenes of the cases investigated by Monfort.

Barcelona: Carlos Zanon

Barcelona is a classic setting for the Spanish novel, the black one and the other. From Alicia Giménez Barlett with Petra Delicado to Carvalho de Montalbán, passing through Toni Hill with her inspector Salgado, many are those who choose Barcelona as their setting and all of them are worth it. With a different perspective, Carlos Zanón portrays the most sordid and dark Barcelona in his novels, choosing central and remote settings, all equally gloomy.

Gijón: Scene of the police series by JM Guelbenzu starring the investigating judge Mariana de Marco.

Baztan: Dolores Redondo

El Baztán, a Navarran region of less than eight thousand inhabitants less than sixty kilometers from Pamplona. A natural paradise that has become famous by the hand of the inspector Amaia Salazar, where the tourist expects it to rain profusely three hundred and sixty-five days a year, as it happens in the trilogy, although the reality is that it does not rain even half of the year . Literary routes, rural and gastronomic tourists, today flood an area until years ago unknown to most.

Gijon: Jose Maria Guelbenzu

Nine novels in the Mariana de Marco series, a slightly masculine examining magistrate who likes to drink, listen to classical music and run on the beach rain or shine. The center, residential areas and some cult bars are the perfect setting for the intimate plots that Guelbenzu develops in his novels, most of them set in Gijón.

Vigo: Domingo Villar

The center of Vigo, the neighboring towns, the estuary, the beach, the trade school, bars that had already closed, all of them take on a different life from the hand of the inspector Leo Caldas and his inseparable Estévez. Long descriptions not typical of the classic novel of intrigue and a gray and timid protagonist give a leisurely and intriguing atmosphere to the stories.

These are just a few examples, in any case, it is worth touring by the hand of inspectors, detectives, judges and other protagonists of the Spanish crime novel. The visit to the scenes of these novels takes on a new perspective for the reading tourist.


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