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Burgos and the fair of San Lesmes, they wait for you this January

2010-01-17T21:02:00.001-08:00

Burgos is a city impactante, in view of his wonderful constructions that date of centuries behind, one cannot less that to shake, he praises it Cathedral of Burgos is already a monument considered Patrimony of the Humanity, Gothic style took a lot of time in ending. But in addition to the Cathedral, Burgos is an excellent option to happen, be already the near day of San Valentín or to go to the celebration of the holiday of San Lesmes who takes place on Sunday before to January 30.

Be already that you go for San Valentín or San Lesmes, have for insurance that Burgos will make you impacted, if it already dresses it it is time to see it again and but you have done it, your opportunity to visit a city of Spain in which you approach the past and the modernity, it is something that you cannot push back. You can visit so many monuments, Monastery of Santa Maria The Real one of the Strikes, the Carthusian order of Miraflores, Castle of Burgos, the Square of the Brave man and so many people more.

But if you visit Burgos in San Lesmes or San Valentín you will be able to enjoy famous saucers natives of Burgos, that you will love insurance the Rotten Pan, a stew with the incomparable flavor that in Burgos, from which it is native the saucer has had during already a lot of time, string beans, streaky bacon, sausage and the others, they will do that you gasp to return again to the very Noble call, much more Loyal and very Charitable City of Burgos where you will find of everything to feel comfortable and to enjoy and many hotels in Burgos where to spend it well.

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Carnival in Badajoz

Ireland a prairies country

Nice in Riviera Francesa

2010-01-17T13:41:00.001-08:00

In the called Côte d'Azur or Riviera Francesa, Nice is, a stop for the forced international tourism for those who like the luxury and the diversion to the best European style. Nice that during some time belonged to Italy, is today one of these attractive cities of France that to his alone mention evokes glorious lights times stars of movies how of talented painters as Matisse, who was born in the above mentioned city.

Nice is not any place round there, it is a place of big luxury and glamor saved for those who have the economic power, to pay a few holidays to him in this ground pedazito, between Cannes and Montecarlo cities also attractive but that in view of Nice and opposite to the big reputation that the city has been acquiring, stay as in the background.

In addition to a spa of the jet set, potentates petróleros, big businessmen, Nice offers the attraction of a series of museums in the city that thematic, they manage to receive the admiration of all, there is a museum for the Chagall genius, and one could not be missing for Matisse the big painter native to Nice, and the fact is that the magnificent vision of Nice could only inspire these geniuses. In Nice big tourist destination there is of everything and to any luxury, the hotels in Nice, they hope for all during the whole year, to accommodate in enclosures that are considered of the most luxurious of the world.

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Portugal | A visit to the country of the Oporto

Andorra between forests and snow

Portugal | A visit to the country of the Oporto

Carnival in Badajoz

2010-01-16T18:25:00.001-08:00

In February he waits for them in Badajoz, the beautiful region in Extremadura, celebrates his Carnival, and the fact is that the Carnival of Badajoz is not another carnival any more, it is a different carnival and of so big importance, which the Meeting of Extremadura has recognized after him as a Regional Tourist Interest.

But not only the Carnival nor alone February, there are propitious occasions to visit this historical city of Spain that dates back to 875 in which Marwan called by his contemporaries “the son of the Galician” of orígen hispanomusulmán founded the city of Badajoz, on the banks of the famous and celebrated Guadiana.

Today Badajoz is a stop forced to do tourism for Europe and specially in Spain, although it is one of these cities of very much tourism in Badajoz, you can always find serviceability, the Hotels of Badajoz, they are accustomed to the persons' inflow that is already a summer, winter or the special holy week pack the streets of the city to the enjoyment of everything what can provide such a beautiful and famous city to us.

Ireland | A prairies country

2010-01-16T10:47:00.001-08:00

The first imágen that transmits the name of Ireland to us is, a green ground, you fill of prairies and cliffs, full of vegetation and with varied fauna as already small it is in the world. A stay of Ireland is the visit to an island in which there lives together the man and the nature in a harmonious meeting, which only breaks the sound of the waves colliding with the rocks.

Ireland has a vast history that dates back to ancient times, of what there realize a series of constructions that seem to have great history, beautiful castles in the Irish hills that have belonged during generations to families that date back to the first settlers of Ireland.

There has a soft climate, which allows walks up to falling down the evening, in this called ground “Erin's green”, the trefoils of three sheets abound, they abound in the forests and prairies although in fact Ireland is an immense prairie, the red foxes and other species, and some local native birds. This walk to Ireland is a forced appointment for those who love the nature, in the middle of this verdure one finds many hotels in Ireland that you can turn into your operations point, there to travel to the counties of Ireland that are great, to know his history, to live through his gastronomy, to breathe pure air and also clearly, to walk along a famous city: Dublin, that one that inspired Joyce, for his famous novel “The Dublineses”.

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Portugal | a visit to the country of the Oporto

Lufthansa inaugurá routes to Iraq from Germany

Lufthansa inagurará routes to Iraq from Germany

2010-01-15T16:03:00.001-08:00

In spite of the warlike conflicts and the political situation of Iraq, for some travelers the country is anticipated like an exotic destination that deserves to be visited. Such it is so more and more company air TV/radio commercials inaugurate his routes towards this destination.

One of those that the above mentioned option is analyzing is the German Lufthansa, company for that it reckons to inaugurate his new trade routes about August, when the summer 2010 begins. Like that it is as with this initiative it would recapture this route that it left in 1990, when the War of the Gulf began and after operating in the country for 34 years.

For the time being the idea of the company is that of realizing flights setting off from the cities of Frankfurt and Munich to come so much to Baghdad, capital of Iraq, as to Erbil, city placed to the north of the country. Meanwhile, Lufthansa is waiting for the respective permissions of traffic to inaugurate the routes.

This one traveled mark the projects of the company at level of expansion and his attempts of reconquering the routes of Middle East. Thus he will compete loudly with Austrian Airlines, who till now dominates the scene with his commercial flights Vienna-Erbil.

Route: I express

Portugal | A visit to the country of the Oporto

2010-01-15T08:40:00.001-08:00

When we decide to travel, perhaps per moments stop us, the limit of the language, to think to us that a few holidays in the middle of the people speaking slightly differently that not entedemos, they cannot be entertaining at all. Bad thought being that the interrelation with other cultures, allows us to increase our knowledge, and on that there rests the attraction of all the countries, what makes them different from ours.

Portugal is a prosperous country, a society who is catalogued between the countries with better quality of life, but Portugal also is the cradle of the Oporto and the Madeira, a country that Portuguese speaks but not for it it turns out to be a bad decision on having traveled, everything opposite, Portugal is attractive more, be where it was that you think it, culture, sports, nature, fauna, the people, of everything there is to result to us in a pleasant visit.

The climate is entirely Mediterranean, a winter cold and warm summer, which well costs to bear in mind to visit the country. The summer is the ideal epoch, you can already come to Oporto in one of these wonderful trains that shape one of the networks of transport more compline, and dazzle you before the vision of the Station of East in Lisbon, an architecture sample without pair in the world.

Oporto and Lisbon are a night vibration, of these cities in which the night it dazzles to all with his brilliancy. In addition to being the ideal place to go of night holiday, Oporto is also a head office of many important attractions in the city. If you belong to those who please the summer to submerge in the sea or the swimming pool, sure that the lucky vacationer will do Madeira of you.

Madeira is a small town, with a climate that you will always find comforting, as well as in Madeira there takes place one of the most famous wines of the world, which so much has hoisted the name of Portugal in any place. Portugal is a portuguese, and also diversion, history, and a lot of gastronomy without equal, walks along the city, dance, senderismo if you praise yourself for the nature, comfort in the hotels of Portugal, if you belong to that the serviceability and the good life please on having traveled: what waiting to go to Portugal?

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Discovering Holland from Voledam

The Opera of Marseilles

2010-01-14T14:51:00.001-08:00

One of the most emblematic monuments of the city of Marbella is his Opera, an imposing building that is inside the old town of the city and reflects the taste and the passion that the French feel for the music and the culture in general.

The Opera of Marbella is a big example of architecture since we speak about an imposing construction of stone that presents a front dominated by six big columns. The building begun to be constructed in 1781 and it was designed by the architect Benard who decided the neoclassic style for his Grand Théâtre.

After six years of works finally the Opera opened his doors and stayed current and very active until in 1919 a building forced to an important reconstruction of style Art Decó that, fortunately, did not modify his front, in which different carved figures and the phrase can be observed “The Art receives the Beauty of Afrodita, the rhythm of Apollo, the balance of Spades, and it owes to Dionisos the movement and the life”.

Since then this building is one of the big prides of the inhabitants of the city, with his two styles coexisting in healthy harmony and his paintings that decorate the local interior.

Route: Marseille

Discovering Holland from Volendam

2010-01-14T07:30:00.001-08:00

To only 22 kilometers of Ámsterdam, the Volendam town is an excellent option to discover Holland. It is a question of a typical people that even keeps alive his traditional customs, which turn it into a very picturesque destination of the Netherlands.

Originally, Volendam was the port part of Edam, placed on the river Ijsselmeer. In 1357, the Edam inhabitants constructed a more nearby port, by what Volendam remained rendered useless. The unoccupied grounds were inhabited by farmers and fishermen, that the first Volendam inhabitants formed.

The local culture is much joined with the Catholic Church, an example of it is the chapel of Our Lady of the Water, located in one of the parks of the city. If it chooses to visit this village, that better than it to make during a festivity and power appreciate this way the typical outfits in which his inhabitants dress themselves. In the local museum also it will be able to appreciate a little more of the rich Volendam folklore.

Wooden houses all green graffiti, callecitas narrow and narrow channels, the sabots in front of the doors, are alone some of the things that it will be able to appreciate from this little town that presents ideal to itself for the accommodation and visit the Dutch capital in some escape.

Andorra between forests and snow

2010-01-13T14:36:00.001-08:00

The Andorra fantastic is that we can visit it, in any season full of vegetation and the ideal place is forests to happen a few beautiful days of summer, the summer temperature is usually soft, propitiates for walks and senderismo in vales where there come together the most important rivers of the Commenced one of Andorra, so beautiful it is these vales full of pines that have been considered to be a Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO. Days of verdure and the sun, they hope them if they cheer up to come to Andorra in full summer.

But if they prefer the winter and to ski, not at all like Andorra to do it, the winter period is very active and entertaining, because Andorra is provided with ski resorts, official sport in the country. But in addition to spending an agreeable summer or winter period in the place, which is provided also with everything what a walk trip claims, diversion, adventure, and a country that although near to Spain and with the Catalan as official language it has also its own customs and traditions that you cannot allow enjoying visiting the place.

The hotels in Andorra contemplate all the possible serviceability, there take a few days of relaxation and diversion in one of these places that are enjoyed to the maximum, as I say already to them, in any period of the year.

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I destine for San Valentin, Verona

Destinations for San Valentin: Verona

2010-01-12T21:49:00.001-08:00

Slightly more romantic than the magic stages of Romeo and Julieta? Since this is what offers Verona, romantic sceneries where he wants that you look, Renaissance small houses, squares sources, walks at the edge of the Adije. Great is what this city chosen by Shakesperae offers to the lovers.

Put Pietra, The source of Madonna Verona (1368), Put Pietra, The Sand, Domus Mercatoru, the Piazza dei Signori, Palazzo Maffei (1668), or his most modern part with the Route Giuseppe Mazzini, to the head, where it will be able to appreciate some of the most famous world marks. Without counting the circuit of Romeo and Julieta: the houses of the Montesco and Capuleto, the balcony of Julieta and his grave in the convent of San Francesco to the Corsican one. Remember that all these histories are alone works of the English playwright.

The delight of this nice city there him joins the hospitality of his accommodations, which for these dates prepare special bundles that it were delighting so much how his couple.

Destinations for San Valentin: Castles of the Loire

2010-01-12T14:22:00.001-08:00

France, ground of the love, that better place to celebrate the day of San Valentín than in the country who created this festivity.

And undoubtedly a cruise for the vale of the Loire is one of the best options. Declared World Patrimony for the UNSECO, the splendid sceneries between Renaissance castles that this region offers us believe an idyllic frame to win the love again.

Between Sully-sur-Loire (Loiret) and Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire), more than 42 castles adorn the banks of the river, being the most out-standing: the castles of Blois, Amboise or of Saumur, at the edge of the big river; the Clucks of Lucé (Amboise), residence of Da Vinci and where his grave is. The most famous and inevitable of visiting: Azay-le-Rideau, Chambord and Chenonceau.

Also you can rent your own boat and sail to taste, in whose case the minimal costs are of about 270 euros. But it is necessary to remember that it is a dead season, therefore the prices are not so high, and they usually do special prices, as well as you programme, for this day.

Corniglia in Cinque Terre

2010-01-11T21:42:00.001-08:00

Corniglia, the smallest of the towns that shapes Him Cinque Terre, and to be said of many, in that less things there should be to see. Since we make use of this absence of appreciation in our favor.

And one of the principal causes of what we said is his accessibility. Raised on a foreland opposite to the sea to little more of 100mts of height, to be able to reach it we will have to rise for the Lardarina, an ancient staircase of 337 steps split into 33 stretches! Another option is to take the bus that departs often from the train station. We delay only 10 minutes, at a price for 2.50 euros and we will not get tired so much, but definitely the staircase will offer to us a few marvelous sceneries.

Already in the town, we will be able to visit the church of Santa Caterina to the square of Length Taragio, and the old town, along the Route Fieschi, where the small houses appear to the street on the one hand and to the sea for other. The Church of San Pietro, of 1334, with his style Gothic - ligur, also is very advisable. As the nice beaches that exist on the foot of the foreland, possessors as they say, of the most crystalline waters of Cinque Terre.

The Island of Mjet, Croatian delight

2010-01-11T14:19:00.001-08:00

In full Adriatic Sea, considered one of the principal attractions of Dubrovnik, finds the island of Mjet.

Considered an earthly paradise, this isle possesses a National park in his area oste of more of 100km2. In his interior two lakes exist, the Veliko jezero (Big Lake) and the Villain jezero (Small Lake), his waters end in the sea and keep in touch for slightly deep channels. In the Veliko jezero, on a small islet, there gets up the beautiful Renaissance convent of Santa Maria, construction of the XIIth century, although it has had several later modifications.

To penetrate for the caminitos of this island is really the only walk, both along the peace that is breathed, and along the direct contact with the nature. If the time allows it, it is possible to enjoy a good dive in his calm waters.

The way of coming to Mjet is to take some of the crafts that do the trip from the Dbrovnik port, lasting the trajectory between 1 and 2 hs.

Murano and his glazing

2010-01-10T06:29:00.001-08:00

Venice is famous for his channels, his Renaissance buildings, the basilica of San Marcos, but undoubtedly that the Murano archipelago is one of his principal attractions.

These islands where there raise the old workshops manufacturers of the delicate and exquisite glass of Murano from the XIIIth century, keep the most secret mysteries of this art, which it will be possible to contemplate of the hand of some of so many people craftsmen who exhibit pleasant part of his discipline to the curious tourists.

In the factories, in addition to contemplating the above mentioned demonstrations, some pieces of the famous glass will be able to be acquired, but do to be touched by some cheap object, since these are usually brought from Czech Republic for being more economic. Definitely a real Murano will cost his, but really it will be worth while. Some of the most well-known local marks are: Barovier, Seguso, Venini, Pauly and I Cough.

Close to the Square of San Marcos there finds the stop San Sacaría, where from it is possible to take the vaporetto 42 that will take it to Murano, happening for Fonamente Nuove and the Cemetery San Michelle, during a trip of about 40 minutes.

During August many glass factories close, therefore if it is desirable to visit Venice and Murano, it is preferable that is not in this month.

Vila Nova de Gaia, cradle of the Oporto

2010-01-09T23:03:00.001-08:00

The port. Did they ever wonder because of the name of this wine? If it is like that, that better that to visit his origin place to discover it.

Vila Nova de Gaia, locality of Portugal located opposite to the city of Oporto, from which the Duero separates it, is today a set of multiple wine vaults specializing in the production of the famous liquor, some dulzón and rather loudly (up to 25 °G.L of alcohol). Most of them realize visits guided to the tourists, which consist of a little of history of the establishment, trip of the same one, to culminate with some tasting in nice spaces created for such an end. In many of them it is not necessary to realize reservation, since they divide exits every day, and the prices are about 3 euros, nevertheless, several are free to them.

To come to Vila Nova of Gaia it is possible to cross the bridge Luís I that joins it with Oporto, or to realize the typical walk in rabelos, small crafts formerly used for the transport of casks. In the same ones the landscaped walk of the coast is furrowed up to coming to Vila Nova, where also it will be possible to visit the Museum of the Wine, and this way to know the whole history of the “Portuguese broth”, going back until the XVIth century.

Some recommended wine vaults: Calem, Taylor's, Graham's

Route: minube

To eat in Athens in Pil Pul

2010-01-09T15:39:00.001-08:00

Located in the ancient Thisio area, Athens, the restaurant Pil Pul offers the most exquisite Mediterranean plates and of the international kitchen. If you belong to those that they like enjoying the typical gastronomy of the destination, this insurance place will like it. Simple and attractive meals, with prime matters of high quality they characterize to this place, being some of his specialties the moussaka (eggplants with lamb, red wine, cinnamon and olive oil), dolmades (stew with vineyard sheets), or the kebabs and avgolemono (chicken with rice, eggs and lemon juice).

Also he will be able to savor some of the famous Greek wines, in an ambience richly decorated and with exclusively airs that it wraps to this restaurant lodged in a building of beginning of 1900.

But undoubtedly one of the characteristics that has given reputation to Pil Pul, in addition to how tasty and cheap it is to eat there, is his splendid panoramic patio, from which there can be appreciated the most beautiful sceneries of the Acropolis, the Observatory and of the Licabeto.

The local capacity is alone of 60 messmates, therefore in the possible thing it does a reservation in advance, and do not forget to ask for a table in the patio!

Route: absolutatenas

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2010-01-09T06:09:00.001-08:00

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Destinations New Year's Eve: Rome

2009-12-26T07:44:00.001-08:00

A destination for New Year's Eve favorite partly will owe why inside Rome there is the state of The Vatican where the Pope in these dates usually realizes a speech. Also it has big spectacles to part of the classic castle of fireworks, in the Imperial Forum that is next to the Roman Coliseum. Undoubtedly it is a good option to spend the New Year's Eve in Rome where you will not have time to get bored with so much art and historic monuments.

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Destinations New Year's Eve: London

2009-12-26T00:14:00.001-08:00

If you are thinking of traveling to London to spend the New Year's Eve you must not get lost the fireworks that you will be able to see in the river Thamesis close to London Eye and after holiday for the London pubs. He remembers also that the first New Year's Day takes place in this big city an artists' concentration of the whole world, musicians, ballet dancers …

Hotels offers in London where it is one of our favorite destinations to spend the New Year's Eve.

Destinations New Year's Eve: You give birth

2009-12-25T16:51:00.001-08:00

One of the destinations most demanded by the Spanish to spend the New Year's Eve is Paris. Undoubtedly a very romantic and special place where you will be able to enjoy the spectacular fireworks and lights of the Tower Eiffel.

If you are thinking to travel to Paris you can find flights low cost from many airports of Spain.

Undoubtedly a different way of spending the New Year's Eve is of trip.

They steal the cartel of entry of Auschwitz

2009-12-18T10:09:00.001-08:00

For whom they have lived closely through the Holocaust, it is one of these trips that serve to cure wounds. Not only that, many survivors and relatives is believed by them that a visit helps Auschwitz to the collective memory, to remember forever the atrocities committed by the human being so that never again they should happen.

That's why the fact is that the biggest field of extermination of the planet remains as in his worst epochs and today it serves as museum not to forget. It surprises knowledge of that time that the welcome cartel to the field, local symbol, was stolen by strangers, as informed the police of Poland.

The same one is one of the big modality of the field and in him it is possible to read the phrase “Arbeit macht I fried” (The work makes us free), written in wrought iron. The theft took place this morning at 6 a.m. am and until now the horse brigade of the police is tracing the area.

The news was received by big indignation considered a desecration in a place where more than one million persons was murdered.

For the time being, the authorities of Poland look with steadfastness for the piece and hope that it should not have been destroyed.

Route: AFP

The National Gallery of Ireland

2009-12-18T00:01:00.001-08:00

The National Gallery of Ireland is one of the museums that every tourist stayed at any of many hotels of Dublin they must not allow visiting. This cultural entity offers an interesting panorama of the European art of all the times across a magnificent collection shaped by more than 14.000 pieces. There they are exhibited from paintings and sculptures up to engravings, drawings and objects.

Found in 1854, the collection has been growing in the course of time and this way it is as between the pieces we can find works of big figures of the art like Velázquez, Rembrandt, Goya, Picasso or Carvaggio. The gallery also offers a room dedicated to the figure of the playwright and Irish poet Jack Yeats who allows to go deep into his magnificent literary work as well as into his love for the painting.

National Gallery of Ireland is placed in the center of the city and in addition to the permanent exhibition in the enclosure all kinds of activities is organized, from workshops and projections up to shows and special activities.

Route: National Gallery of Ireland

The Celtic symbols that we can find in Scotland

2009-12-17T16:36:00.001-08:00

It is enough to penetrate the threshold of some of many hotels of Esococia to breathe the local culture.

Scotland is famous for his Celtic symbols and for his traditions that are transmitted from generation to generation. The fact is that the Celtic culture is inscribed almost into any place, with a whole of 35 symbols that the travelers can find in different cities.

Some of them are carved in ancient stones and between the most famous the figures of the druids are, often in canes and crowns, as well as the spirals, the creatures and the animals although there are not missing the knots and the half moons, dispersed in numerous architectural works.

It is possible to identify many of these symbols nevertheless there are others that remain in the field of the abstract thing. One of the most enigmatic is the figure known as V-rod, an arrow that remains superposed on a half moon and is associated with the death. Also it is possible to direct the look to the mirrors, which also they represent to the Celtic culture as well as the sirens and other creatures of sea.

So well, at the time of going out to walk and to realize a trip for the principal cities of Scotland you must raise the head to appreciate these big symbols that marked the life of this country.

Route: Celtic symbols

Cheap hotels in Saragossa

2009-12-15T18:42:00.001-08:00

Atrapante and exotic, Saragossa is one of these cities that is worth while visiting on having covered Spain your Moslem heredity it gets together with the Christian history and the result is a surprising architecture that survives the passage of time and transforms it into a place atrapante.

Many tourists come to this city with desire of discovering it but they cannot stay where exactly since given the important hotels offer in Saragossa turns out to be a difficult knowledge which are the most suitable.

That's why here I recommend to you some accommodations that two basic requisites assemble at the time of choosing a hotel: service and price. There are economic hotels but not that's why they neglect the guest as what perhaps it is worth while having them in mind.

Hotel Prince: it is in the center of the city and the price of the rooms is supported in 60 euros the whole year. Good services and big serviceability are the letter of credence of this accommodation.

Hotel Big Route: a hotel three stars whose rooms have a price for 54 euros. It is in the center and the rooms have been renewed recently.

Hotel Hiberus: a hotel five stars crowned by the design marks the course of Saragossa in hotel matter. To steps of the Palace of Congress, the modern rooms look to the Ebro and have a price for 94 euros the whole year.

Hotel Melia Saragossa: the chain Meliá also has his hotel in this city. It is in the center and the price is 76 euros the night. In him you will find a service guaranteed by the proposal of this famous chain.

Hotel Calatayud: for only 59 euros the night, you can stay in a hotel placed scarcely one it goes out of the city of Calatayud and it is provided with a roofed and very watched private parking lot. It is a calm hotel, his aspect is rural and the rooms are the widest; and also it is provided with all the serviceability. We will be able to have for dinner in the patios of the hotel where we will disconnect ourselves of everything, a place surrounded with hedges and with music chill out of fund, magician. The price is 59 euros the whole year, ideal for one fully deserved holidays.

Route: Catch it

Bridge Saint Trinita, the nicest of Florence

2009-12-14T18:06:00.001-08:00

It is a forced postcard. Every tourist who happens for Florence deals with photographing along with the splendid one Put the most famous bridge of the city Vecchio, that Arno crosses the river and is an architectural relic, with his old shops and his exquisite history.
Nevertheless, many people say that it is not the nicest bridge of Florence. On the contrary, the Bridge Saint Trinita takes all the kudos as for beauty, at least this way it is considered in this city of daydream. Who has the truth? Nobody knows it with certainty, perhaps be a question of taking some of many flights low cost to Italy to do a trip lightning and to decide it for your own account.

For the prompt thing, I leave you with the history. This bridge receives his name of the Saint's church Trinita, which is at scarce distance, and talks each other of a construction which gérmen goes back a year 1252, when the family Frescobaldi was in charge to construct a wooden bridge. Regrettably, this bridge had life small since it collapsed in 1259 although in the year 1333 it was reconstructed, this time in stone. The luck avoided it again and, once again, the bridge fell down in 1557 and it was not but until any years later when it returned to the life, in this occasion thanks to Cosme I who arranged his reconstruction. Of the same one big Miguel Ángel took part and this way it is like this bridge it stopped being a mere epoch construction to transform in a work of art. Miguel Ángel studied the project and thought about a few elliptical arches to support to the floods and a set of statues to crown you to the bridge in 1608, in occasion of the wedding of Cosme II.
The Bridge Saint Trinita remained in foot up to the Second World war, when it was destroyed by the German army although once again it was reconstructed on having finished the war following the original model.
Route: Florencia.es

The magic of Put Vecchio

2009-12-14T10:45:00.001-08:00

Put Vecchio it is without doubts the big neuralgic center of the city of Florence, an architectural monument that has survived the time transforming in one of the big emblems of this stone city where the art and the culture are part of his natural legacy.
We speak about the most ancient bridge of Florence, a place that is almost a Persian, narrow and tight market, crossing the river Arno from the Ist century, when the Romans constructed the first wooden bridge in that one place.

After successive adversity, the old bridge collapsed and it was not but until the year 1345 when the architects Taddeo Gaddi and Neri Fioravanti began the works of a stone bridge that would be conceived also like a market or place of exchange of merchandise. Like that it was as the current one was born Put Vecchio, with his small shops sharing the daily life.
About the year 1495 the bridge suffered a modification when the shops were sold and, with the intention of extending them, there were added rear rooms that altered the original structure of the bridge. These are located in the rear part of the bridge and are supported by wooden props. Another renewal happened in 1565 when "Corridoio Vasariano" or Corridor of Vasari was constructed, a broker of one kilometer of extension that joins some big Florentine buildings with the bridge, as the Old Palace, the Palace Pitti - the residence of the Médicis - and the Gallery of the Offices.
Photographed up to the fill, Put Vecchio it is one of the big patrimonies of Italy, a place that can be covered both by the inhabitants of the city and for the numerous tourists who stay at the hotels of Florence and with avidity they want to discover this ancestral construction.
Route: Italy Guide

Pompeii, now from Google Street View

2009-12-09T10:11:00.001-08:00

Not always it is necessary to buy a plane ticket to know closely an interest place. If you are with little money, be always the option to gain access to wonderful images thanks to diverse services and on-line applications.
One of those that it has gained more followers in the last years is Google Street View and this way he is like the Internet giant one gets into debt in keeping on adding destinations so that the Net users could discover the places and more surprising cities and attractions of the world.

Although it is not the same as to travel the streets of these places, does not stop being a good alternative when we cannot visit the place. An example? The historical city of Pompeii, Patrimony of the Humanity of the UNESCO. Now you can visit the ruins from the Google Street View and only sit down a few minutes opposite to the screen of the computer. Then you will appreciate what has stayed of this city that Vesuvius remained buried after the eruption of the volcano in 79 A.D.
The conservation of the city surprises still from the images, I do not want to imagine what must be in living and live. Across the service you can gain access to images of buildings, paintings, sculptures and objects of then that realize of the life in the place.
Of course, if this does not always shape you you can look at the hotels reservation in Italy to realize an escape to Pompeii. Although well, perhaps this is an option at least interesting for those who do not find way of realizing the trip.
Route: Gadling

H2otel, floating hotel in Rotterdam

2009-12-02T14:28:00.001-08:00

Not only some Ámsterdam hotels are anticipated to the fashion of the exotic accommodations with an unusual proposal. Far from the popularity of this capital, Rotterdam also is an interest focus with his H2otel, an unusual hotel that rests in one of many channels from this important Dutch city.
Although Ámsterdam attracts the tourists' biggest quantity a year, Rotterdam also is an important urban center and that's why his hotel offer presents options for all the tastes, even some pearls, as it is the case of this floating hotel that is in the central Wijnhaven port, in the heart of the city. and although five does not offer the serviceability of a hotel estrellasaunque yes an exoticism quota.

If we speak about the infrastructure, we meet an accommodation of three stars and something discreet in space terms although kind in exoticism terms. The reasons? The ambiences are slightly small although they present the typical structure of a ship, with sloping roofs and skylights instead of windows. Some rooms look at the wharf although the guests in search of major space can stay at the rooms - patios, with an open space with tables and chairs.
The restaurant with integrated patio, the room of being where the breakfast buffet and the bar - brewery makes use they complete them thank you of this hotel that, in addition to onlooker, has a few very interesting and guessed right prices. On the other hand, it is only a few minutes of the Station Blaa, which tunes in to the meter of the city and to the train that travels to Ámsterdam.
Route: h2otel

Train of high speed will join London with Madrid

2009-12-01T21:46:00.001-08:00

London is prepared for the Olympic Games of 2012 with big enthusiasm and this way it is like numerous architectural works they come alive in the British capital. As informs the daily Englishman The Times in a pair of years the Spanish will be able to travel to London not only in plane but across a new train of high speed that will join both countries.
The trip will stay on only eight hours and will depart from Madrid, realizing intermediate stops in Barcelona, Lyons and Paris.

The knot of this project in fact is in the new railroad company created by the governments of France and Spain that in the first moment will allow the connection Madrid - Paris, in a trip that he will delay between five and six hours. To come to London then it will be necessary to tackle the Eurostar that joins Paris with the English capital, this way to come to destination in two hours and a half.
One hopes that the project should be a reality before the Olympic Games and the new network will be managed by RENFE, who will invest approximately 300 million euros.
Route: ABC

Rome: in 2011 it inaugurates a thematic park dedicated to the movies

2009-11-30T13:12:00.001-08:00

For ages Rome has been one of the big stages of the movies. Many movies have been filmed in emblematic places as the Fountain I gave Trevi, Piazza Spagna or to the feet of the Coliseum. There does not surprise knowledge then that in 2011 will open his doors an ambitious tourist project that produces homage to the movies.
It is a question of Cineccitá World, a thematic park dedicated to resembling the big movies of all the times, with stages and objects that will resemble these big movies filmed in Rome. For the local construction the Italian theatrical designer Dante Ferretti has been hired, a world, winning modality of two awards Oscar for his works in “The Aviator“ and “Sweeney Todd“.

Cleopatra, Ben-Hur, Dolce Vita and other big outstanding figures of the movie industry will have his space it is this park. On the other hand, the place will be dedicated to the big legends of the Italian movies and his movies, as Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini.
Although for the time being the project is in nappies, the idea is to extend it with running of the time this way to create more other parks: Cinecittá World 2 and Cinecittá Natura.
Route: Web messenger

Brief trip for Nice

2009-11-24T22:08:00.001-08:00

The Côte d'Azur is famous for his glamor and elegance, a small pearl inside the European continent that seems isolated of the rest, prey of its own history of fairy tale.
Nice is one of the most exclusive places inside this stripe of French ground, a paradise where there are not missing the charming places and walks of interest. The constructions surprise with his style, the hotels in Nice love with his services attentive to the most sublime desires of the guests.

But also there is this another Nice, which, as any other place of the world, he invites to a trip on foot. Because this city is not too big and allows to know it step by step. To begin, you can visit the old town of the city, where there is the Hill of the Castle or Colline du Chateau, which with his ninety meters high, allows to see exquisite panoramas of some key points of the city like the Walk of the Englishmen, the Bay of the Angels and The Marine Alps. Behind this hill it is possible to gain access to the port of the city to appreciate the lighthouse and the Church of the Blessed Virgin Concepcion.
The museums circuit is other of the trips forced so in addition to a big quota of entertainment and diversion Nice is known for being the second city with more museums of France. Some safety pins? Musee Matisse and Musee Chagall.
The main street of the city is Promenade des Anglais, an agreeable side that looks at the sea and where it is possible to see the people walking very calm along with his pets. Neither it is necessary to forget the Walk of the Englishmen, another point of interest that it divides to the beach of the buildings that give to the Bay of the Ángele s, famous by his casinos, restaurants and hotels de luxe.
Route: Tourist guide of Nice

Spa in a gondola of Venice

2009-11-24T14:22:00.001-08:00

Inside many hotels with spa of Venice that they invite to enjoy this beautiful city making use of the demurrage to rest the body and the soul there is one that leaves of the average with a beyond the common proposal.
Cassanova Beauty and Wellness Center of the Hotel Cipriano risks with a fabulous treatment that in addition to leaving you as new it performs the most innovative thing since it allows the relaxation emphasizing to the same one the best of the city of the channels.
The fact is that instead of a bed in a lounge Zen style the spa invites to a treatment of massages of forty minutes of duration that is realized in a gondola especially conditioned for such an end.

The craft circulates along the Venetian Lagoon, a private area was isolated from the Big Channel, while a gondolier drives carefully and protects the privacy of the one who receives the treatment. The massages are applied by specializing personnel and they tackle different areas of the body, including the face, the feet and the top part of the body.
To protect the skin of the sun, also special oil is applied with protection from the beams UV.
Route: Travel + Leisure

The Museum of Jewish History of Bucharest

2009-11-21T00:57:00.001-08:00

Far from the big historical buildings and the big hotels of Bucharest, in the heart of this wonderful city of East Europe there is a place dedicated to spreading the culture of the Jewish community, much it presents in the life of Bucharest from immemorial times.
The first Jews sefaradíes came there about the XVIth century and the community was growing in the course of time. For the year 1715 it had already registered a temple and in the XXth century the synagogs and baths “Mikve“ were common in the streets of Bucharest. Nevertheless, the Nazism swept with big part of the community and this way it was since like many of these temples they were destroyed.

One of the few ones that survived was an old synagog constructed in 1850 that then it transformed into the Museum of the Jewish history of Romania Dr. Moses Rosen, a place that hoards the past and thinks about how to recover the memory of the community.
Inaugurated in 1978, in the museum there can be all kinds of objects that realize of the life of the Jews in Romania, from his arrival up to the organization of the community then to enter in the dark years of the Nazism. Also there is realized a racconto of the life style and the relation of the community with the social and cultural life of the country.
Inside the collection there can be paintings, publications, objects used in stage plays and in the everyday life as well as books and translations.
Route: Romanian Jewish

HCC Open, modern hotel in Barcelona

2009-11-20T17:31:00.001-08:00

If 3 stars one tries to realize a reservation in a hotel of Barcelona of category perhaps beech that to think about an accommodation as the HCC Open, an establishment that is anticipated like a good option since it is a question of a complex that was inaugurated does not more than five years.
Precisely, we speak about the last incorporation of the chain in the Catalan city, a project that opened his doors in 2004 and since then it attracts the look of the tourist for offering a finished service in a modern building and where the natural light penetrates for all the ambiences.

Placed along with Square Spain, the exhibition site and to only a few minutes of the Square to Catalonia, one of the big neuralgic centers of Barcelona, due to his relative youth it offers all the elements of the most modern hotel trade, with 100 comfortable rooms that offer a satellite TV, Internet connection free ADSL, phone, air conditioning, heating, minibar, safe, finished bath with hairdryer and phone, laundry service and room service. The guests will be able to choose between rooms double of individual use, traditional and triple doubles.
Thought so much for the tourists in holiday plan as for the business traveling salesmen, the hotel is completed by a service of bar - snack bar, parking lot in the same building, several lounges and a buffet of breakfasts.
The prices of this hotel of Barcelona begin in 73.83 euros the night for the double room.

Hotel Silken To - Andalus Palace Seville, an authentic Andalusian accommodation

2009-11-20T10:08:00.001-08:00

Following the style of the beautiful city of Seville, the hotel chain Silken has thought that at the time of settling in the capital of the orange blossom it was important to support the lines of this historical city. The result then is the attractive Hotel Silken To - Andalus Palace Seville, an accommodation to bear in mind at the moment of realizing a reservation.
This hotel of Seville not only is a charming place but it offers the necessary serviceability to rest after an intense day visiting wonderful places as the imposing Cathedral or the gardens of the quarter of Heliópolis.

His wide facilities have allowed the installation of 623 rooms where the light penetrates for the windows being able to enjoy also the fabulous garden of 15.000 m2 that is faithful in the style of this city where the courtyards and gardens have special importance.
Very close to there is the outdoor pool and if it is a question of relaxing a moment perhaps be the occasion to spend for the piano bar where live music is offered. Also there is time to communicate with friends and relatives across the free Internet connection of the rooms or to avoid the world of temptations that is opened in the restaurant of the complex. And if it is a question of organizing a big event, the possibilities are changed so the hotel it is provided with a center of conventions and several lounges where banquets and celebrations are organized.
The hotel is placed to only 10 minutes of the historical center of the city therefore it is to steps of the most important tourist attractions of Seville.

Park of the Forest of Galloway, the ideal place to look at the stars

2009-11-19T16:32:00.001-08:00

I believe that some is time to analyze of so many people hotels in Scotland, especially if you are keen of the astronomy. The fact is that there the same one of the big corners is of the world to enjoy the stars.
The perfect place is, precisely, the Park of the Forest of Galloway, a magnificent green lung that has been designated like the first Park of Dark Sky of the United Kingdom. What means this? That from there you can enjoy the Milk Route as in no other part of the country because, in contrast to what it happens in most of the United Kingdom, there almost there is no light contamination therefore the stars can be enjoyed in all his dimension.

The Park of the Forest of Galloway is placed to the south-west of Scotland and covers a 777 kilometers extension. In the nights, the place becomes rash and dark and it is this virtue the one that favors the astronomical observation.
To achieve this title, the park worked along with experts in lighting who studied the local artificial light and came to a mark more than acceptable: 23. This number contrasts against the numbers of between 15 and 16 that present the urban skies.
The park of the Forest of Galloway is close to the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh by what it is anticipated like a new tourist circuit for those who like the stars.
Route: 20 minutes

Restaurant Pomze of Paris, where plates are cooked only with apples

2009-11-19T09:10:00.001-08:00

One would think that it is a question of a prank but not, the true thing is that in the restaurant Pomze of Paris only apples make use. But we do not speak about a simple fruit placed in the center of a plate but of the whole scale of plates that although they present different products it takes as a base to the apple.
Rubbing the obsession, l to letter it includes to the fruit in more than 120 variants and this way it is as the messmates can taste it along with a tasty cold vegetable soup or in the shape of purée and accompanying other delights as the ribs of pig caramelizadas.

The restaurant does not limit itself to the meal and this way it is as in Pomze you can find a finished wine vault with bottles of cider of all the styles, very old someone. Also there are vodkas of Poland and varieties of all the countries.
And before leaving the establishment, you can happen for the shop where they wait to you for a fair amount of products by means of the fruit like chutneys or calvados.
Do you like the apples? Perhaps be the moment to look a searcher of cheap flights to land in this culinary paradise with flavor to fruits and very much love for the kitchen. The restaurant stays in the number 109 of the bulevard Haussmann, Paris, and he is waiting for you to spend a different weekend.
Route: Travel + Leisure

They steal a painting of Munch of a museum of Oslo

2009-11-19T01:46:00.001-08:00

If you were on the point of looking at the hotels offer in Oslo to realize a reservation and to dive in direct form in the art gallery Nyborg Kunst you have to state first that this cultural enclosure is opened to the public since recently a lithography of the Norwegian painter Edgard Munch was stolen.
It is a difficult knowledge as the thieves managed to leave with his since the place is placed in the center of Oslo and carefully guarded nevertheless with skill there managed to take the work “History“, a valuable painting realized between 1914 and 1916 and colored to hand that, is calculated, it has a value for 240.000 euros.

The thieves knew what they were doing at the moment of the theft since only this work and the theft took it was attended by several witnesses who are being interrogated by the local police.
Regrettably, it is not the first time that a picture of Munich suffers a theft since in 2004 another two works were removed of the Museum of Munch, placed also in the center of Oslo.
Route: Magazine Ñ

Hotel designed by Christian Lacroix in Paris

2009-11-18T18:18:00.001-08:00

The Bellechasse of Paris is not an any hotel. Far from the elegant decoration although classic that you can find in most of the French accommodations, this establishment has gained itself the foreign look thanks to a style really haughty fruit of the ingenuity of brilliant Christian Lacroix.
The expert in fashion has been who has decorated the hotel and this way it is like this place it presents itself as a small luxurious bubble in the heart of the city.

Far from the minimalism of these times, the hotel wakes up to the senses with a strong bet based on the vibrant colors, the silks and the velvets. There are even giant butterflies in the roofs and big paintings realized by eclectic artists.
The accommodation is provided with 34 rooms that allow to make the faithful Lacroix style out although each of them presents a differentiated decoration. Seven different ambiences define the style of the hotel: Patchwork, Avengers, Saint Germain, Tuileries, Mousquetaires, Jeu de Paume and Quai d'Orsay, each one with his own and distinguished stamp.
The bravery is the maximum bet of this hotel that assembles different styles that have happened throughout the decades to join them in an avant-garde hotel that emphasizes the best of the Parisian spirit.
To stay at him is not cheap therefore if you are a fanatics of Lacroix or admirer of the art but you are not provided with sufficient money to travel to Paris in a traditional flight and at the same time to reserve a room you can always look at the offer of cheap flights for Paris this way to balance the economic scales and not to lose the opportunity to happen a few days in a place like this one.
Route: Firstluxe

Riu Pravets Resort – Golf and Spa, a new hotel of the chain Riu in Bulgaria

2009-11-18T04:32:00.001-08:00

Bulgaria is anticipated like one of the emergent destinations of Europe and that's why numerous hotel chains place his eyes in these countries. One of them is the chain Riu who next December will inaugurate Riu Pravets Resort – Golf and Spa, a magnificent hotel placed to 60 km from Sofia, in the only place: on the banks of the lake Pravets and with a view to the Balkan Mountains.
The resort offers big serviceability and it is ideal for lovers of the golf since it is provided with a field of 18 holes. Of big dimensions, he has 242 double rooms and suites novice monk at that they look to lake and to the mountains. Also it is provided with a business center, six rooms of conferences and meetings, and a restaurant with a menu à la carte where the plates are prepared in alive. The lobby bar, the piano bar, the health bar and the casino complete them thank you of this hotel.

And if it was missing a little, the resort also has an executive plant designed for the business travelers by what it is equipped with double executive rooms and suites with one or two bedrooms, all of them with Internet and minibar. Those who stay there also will have access to an exclusive executive lounge.
Beyond his dimensions, his perfect place and the multiple services they transform it into one of these hotels with delight worth being visited.
Route: I express

Medemblik, a calm Dutch city

2009-11-17T21:07:00.001-08:00

Far from the hotels of Ámsterdam and of the numerous attractions that offers this rough city, Medemblik shines far from the noise citadino.
Although we speak about a city, it is far from his older sister and this way it is like this ancient Friesland community it is like detainee in the time, prey of a past which legacy some historical buildings are.

The Medemblik history begins about the year 1289, date in which it was conceived like city after which for so many years Count Floris V was the Master of those grounds. To be protected from the citizens who were looking for the independence the count constructed a big strong one known as the Castle of Radbound.
This place remains in foot until our days and it is one of the big attractions of the city. The castle is of stone and it is placed in a strategic place by what from there the best panoramas of the city are obtained. Another sight is a Bonifaciuskerk or Bonifacio's Church, an ancient basilica of the XIIth century. Along with her there is the exhibition of the archaeological society of Medemblick.
The city grew especially during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries on having transformed in an important port with access to the North Sea.
Like many other Dutch cities, in this people the channels are not missing either and that's why it is recommended to cover the city in boat. Or to rent bicycles to enjoy it opencast. Also there is the option to take a train to steam to realize a trajectory between Medemblik and Hoorn.
Route: Planetware

Christmas offers to East Europe

2009-11-17T13:41:00.001-08:00

We are next to enjoying the small Christmas, this recess that allows us to take a rest to us before beginning the new year. And if of traveling it talks each other, this year the promotions are to the agenda perhaps because the airlines need to receive the attention and win opposite to the strong competition.
East Europe presents itself as an interesting option and that's why many countries of this area of the continent have seen increasing the tourism. Not only it is a question of destinations that in general are more economic but also there are very interesting tariffs at the time of flying.

The flights of Austrian Airlines are a big option since there are very economic alternatives. You can obtain flights with an initial price for 99 euros or tariffs from 159 euros in the direction of Prague, Budapest, Saint Petersburg or Warsaw.
The airline not only limits itself to the oriental countries and this way it is as between the routes it offers one to Dusseldorf for 159 euros and to Athens paying only 169 euros. All the prices are of going and return and they include valuations and emission expenses.
And if it is a question of traveling more comfortable, Austrian Airlines offers promotional tariffs in Business to Athens, Zagreb and Budapest to 799 euros. Or flights to Kiev, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Amman, Dubai and Damascus for 99 euros.
The promotions are really interesting therefore if you already have the organized trip I advise to realize a reservation since it is probable that they become exhausted with rapidity.
Route: Under Cost

The Hałpat monastery in Armenia: Patrimony of the Humanity

2009-11-13T15:08:00.001-08:00

The Monastery of Hałpat is one of these medieval structures that can be in any corner of Europe. Many of these places are lost in the middle of not at all and this way it is as they have been perpetuated in the time, transforming in small beautiful gems that have managed to survive to reveal part of the religious past of the continent.

Hałpat was constructed in Armenia in the Xth century and he was founded by San Nishan. Placed in a place privileged with sight to the river to Have to, the monastery meets in one of the wings of a hill the intention of demonstrating the humility that must have the monastic community. It was declared a Patrimony of the Humanity in 1996.
The dark stone and the roofs color brick mark the local personality. Although it is a question of a modest enclosure, the different spaces are not missing, with the church of San Nishan like center and other enclosures that were constructed by running of the time. The Cathedral is the biggest edifico of the complex. It was constructed in honor to the saint between 967 and 991 and his interior is very interesting, with a central vault worthy of admiration and a fresh air identical with the apse.
Route: Armenian Highland

Tour to Chernobyl

2009-11-13T07:44:00.001-08:00

The city of Chernobyl suffered the most serious nuclear accident of the entire world. Many years have happened since the head office was exploding and nevertheless the consequences still feel both in the place and in the health of those who live there.
Beyond the raw reality of his inhabitants, Chernobyl has transformed in a tourist place for those who want to know more on the accident.

Like that it is as there are organized different tours that invite to cover the area of the accident produced in 1986. The same ones depart from the city of Kiev, to the north of Ukraine, and also they visit the city of Pripyat, where there were living those who were employed at the head office. Houses, schools, hotels and godforsaken buildings are the big witnesses of the event.
The walk has a duration of one day and includes a documentary that he informs about the details of the accident. On the other hand, meetings are realized with leaders of the agency Chernobylinterinform and with some survivors of the tragedy.
Route: Madness Travel

An avant-garde building in Switzerland

2009-11-12T20:49:00.001-08:00

Waterflux is the name of a strange building of the city of Evolene in Switzerland. It is a question of a structure projected by the study RiSie where in some moment he will rest an Art museum.
For the time being it is a very modern project based on a structure shaped by a big irregular block that presents different perforations in the front. The idea is that the building looks alike to a block of ice melted with the water of the rain that flows and stagnates in the different bends in accordance with the season.

The surface of the building will be thousand square meters and without doubts this construction is far from the typical Swiss architecture. On the contrary, it is a question of a new architecture called organic plastic.
With a slightly common design, there are some of them that call already to the building Waterflux like the alien. The reasons are obvious …
Route: Arch Daily

A new museum dedicated to the German history and to the Cold War

2009-11-10T13:32:00.001-08:00

Making use of the anniversary of twenty years of the fall of the Wall of Berlin, symbol of the Cold War, the German authorities inaugurated a museum dedicated to the interGerman history and to the Cold War.

The new museum is placed in the Town Schöningen, a palace constructed in the middle of the XIXth century that is in the locality of Potsdam, to the south of Berlin and along with the emblematic bridge of Glienicke, a construction that during the Cold War was used for the spies' exchange. The cultural entity was created by the publishing group Springer, Matthias Dörfner, and the German businessman Leonard Fischer, who wanted to show this period of the German history to all that one that wants to know more on her.
The Soviet ex-president Mikhail Gorbachev and the ex-secretary of the North American State Henry Kissinger were present in the opening along with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. Kissinger, Nobel Prize of the Peace, realized a speech in which he remembered the fall of the wall.
Route: EFE

Hochenschonhausen, the jail - museum of the secret police of ex-RDA

2009-11-10T06:09:00.001-08:00

Twenty years have happened from the fall of the Wall of Berlin but the name of Hochenschonhausen still provokes shakes in those who happened for this prison of East Germany.
There were detained thousands of political prisoners who should have supported dark days in his underground cells, with walls without windows and different tortures realized by the Stasi, the secret police of the ex-East Germany. From 1945, this jail placed in oriental Berlin was used by the Soviet ones for his process of “desnazificación“.

But the time has passed and today Hochenschonhausen is a museum that reports the stormy life that the prisoners of the epoch endured. After the German reunification, the secret jail invites the visitors to know a part of the history of the country with the curiosity of which the proper prisoners are the guides of the trip.
Like that it is as there are visited the cells, the rooms of interrogation and they can be seen to the torture instruments, exhibited to express the horror of the past.
Much visited by foreign tourists, few Germans they approach the place, choosing to the negligence like better weapon not to remember the abuses of ex-RDA. Nevertheless, the work of the experts has managed to recover the past across this jail - museum and this way it is as in addition to the mentioned guides there are different historians who dock the tragic actor gone on from the oriental Germany.
Route: Clarion

A shop - museum in Berlin: the memory of the life in the East Germany

2009-11-09T20:17:00.001-08:00

The memory is the only weapon for olvida. And this way it is as Frank Arndt decided to remember the everyday life in East Germany in a personal museum that there assembles a series of objects that allow to make out the difficult conditions imposed in ex-RDA after the construction of the Wall of Berlin. Also the moments that he and many other citizens spent when Germany was reunified.
Because the life for Arndt then was not easy: when the Wall of Berlin fell down, his work in a company of construction drooped product of the opening to the capitalism. It was then when, unoccupied and sad, it began to collect the daily objects of the life in East Germany. Like that it was as it had the occurrence of opening a shop in the street Friedrichshain to exhibit the objects.

Today Der Vorwende Laden is a boutique of intimate memories of the East Germany where diverse products can be seen like the glass bottles of the dulzona Vitacola, the school books that were used like text in the communist Germany, storybooks or wooden toys.
Somehow, this shop reflects the nostalgia of the collector for a country that does not exist already. Although he says not to miss to the Wall, yes he renounces some questions of the capitalism and this way it is as, for him and so many people others, this one boutique is a refuge luck for the nostalgia of those who lived through a different life, far from the development of the West Germany.
Route: Clarion

Berlin celebrates twenty years of the Fall of the Wall

2009-11-09T12:52:00.001-08:00

For months Germany prepares itself to celebrate enthusiastically twenty years of the fall of the Wall of Berlin and finally today, on November 9, the moment to celebrate has come.
Under the name of the “Holiday of the Freedom”, leaders of the world and heads of state will meet to commemorate the fall of this big wall that divided Germany in two and was the big symbol of the Cold War.

Although there will be several high points in this celebration, the big moment will take place when there falls down a big dominoes of polystyrene that has been placed in a 1.5 km stretch, from Potsdamer Platz up to the Reichstag, by the exact place where the wall was.
As it has happened with the blocks that were shaping the wall, these pieces have been painted by numerous artists and young people of the entire world. Also there will realize a concert of the Staastkapelle of Berlin, directed by the teacher Daniel Barenboim mientra that the heads of state and government will cross symbolically the Door of Brandenburg to proceed to the speeches.
Route: Confidential Cantabria

French kitchen: the sweet Savarin

2009-11-07T09:34:00.001-08:00

Walks, monuments, fronts of big beauty and a gastronomy like no other. The French kitchen has achieved a place privileged by force of big recipes, plates prepared exactly for chefs of long tradition. Inside this gastronomy, the confectionery occupies a proper space, with different delights as it is the case of the Savarín, a very typical sweet of France that can be in any corner of the country.

This dessert offers a lot of possibilities since it is a question of a mass that can be refilled by diverse products like natural juices, cream, fruits, liquors, chocolate or what each one wishes.
His making is not anything of another world although it is necessary to bear in mind any secrets.
I leave you with a very intense Savarin version with strawberries:

Ingredients
Lemon rind
A Cinnamon pole
100 g of Sugar
1 water cup
For the syrup:
250 g of strawberries
1 spoonful of yeast Royal
170 g of flour
120 g of sugar
125 ml of sunflower oil
a bicarbonate pinch
3 eggs
1 strawberry yogurt

Preparation
For the syrup:
- To cook the water with the branch of cinnamon and the lemon rind. To add the sugar.
- - to cook to soft fire during ten minutes to remove of so much as well as.
- To extinguish the fire and to allow to cool. To happen for a colander and to reserve.
- To wash the strawberries, to do a cut in the shape of cross and to open them in the shape of flower.
Sponge cake
- to beat the eggs with the sugar up to forming a froth.
- to incorporate the yogurt and the oil little by little. When the miscellany is joined to add the egg yolks previously mixed.
- to sift the flour along with the yeast Royal and the bicarbonate and to add to the miscellany in the shape of rain.
- to grease a crown mold and to spill the preparation.
To cook in stove preheated to 180 ° C from 30 until 40 minutes or until it doubles his volume. To withdraw and to allow to cool desmoldado on a grill.
- to bathe the sponge cake with the syrup.
- to refill the central hollow with the strawberries and to decorate the sponge cake with some of them.
- if it is wished, it is possible to serve with chantilly.

Romania and the monasteries identical with Bucovina

2009-11-06T21:33:00.001-08:00

Far from the attractive city of Bucharest, there appears a set of wonderful monasteries that are big relics of Romania due to his beautiful identical murals that decorate the exterior walls of the constructions.
These buildings are placed in the Bucovina province and express the best of the Byzantine art of the Moldavians who inhabited the area in the XVth and XVIth centuries. In whole, we speak about four monasteries that it presents diverse characteristics although they all share these coloring fronts.

The monastery Voronet is one of the most recognized since there one finds a few fresh air that many associate with the Chapel Sextina. This place was constructed in the year 1488 although the paintings were designed years later. Humor is a small monastery that was constructed in the year 1530 and his drawings represent to the poem The Fall of Constantinople, which reflects the vision that the Rumanians had of the Turks.
The last two monasteries are Sucevita and Moldovita. The first one is a place surrounded with high walls and towers of alertness that was constructed in a vale. The paintings are observed in the walls of his interior church. The last monastery is known by his coloring basilica, which is painted by strong colors and is provided with the furniture of the period in which it was constructed.
Route: Romanian Monastery

The londres Chinatown

2009-11-05T21:23:00.001-08:00

To the gait the streets one might think that it is in East, in any corner of Hong Kong or Beijing but not, the true thing is that it is in the heart of London, in a corner that in spite of the distances one does the best to preserve the traditions brought from very far.
Since it happens in New York, Buenos Aires or Paris, the capital of the United Kingdom also has its own Chinatown and, in this case, we speak about a very interesting place that is close to Picadilly Circus.

The typical architecture dyes the streets of the Chinatown, with his living colors, his dragons and his shops that offer strange products for our customs. Known by the miscellany of races and creeds, this area of London is perhaps one of the best thermometers to realize of the diversity of the city and the Asian inhabitants have known how to appropriate of the place.
At this point, the Chinatown has stopped being an immigrants' refuge to transform in a tourist walk. The descents even have erased the limits between the Englishmen and the immigrants and today we might speak about a quarter that it intermingles "inside" with "out". He is enough to verify the cleanliness and English tidiness of the quarter to realize of the miscellany, something that without doubts moves away from the Chinese culture.
Although that does not import if it is a question of discovering a different place in a city like this one. Especially if it tries to sit down in one of so many people restaurants of the quarter to taste the delights of the Chinese kitchen, a real pleasure for the senses.
Route: Chinatown

Belleville, a popular quarter of Paris

2009-11-05T13:51:00.001-08:00

Some quarters were born concerning the markets and the culture of the street. It is the case of Belleville, a popular district that he rests in the heart of Paris and spreads between colors and well deep-rooted customs.
Belleville is an important point for the tourism due to his nature between Bohemian and popular. In the beginning it was the Chinese community the one that settled in the area and this way it was as an authentic Chinatown was born but then inhabitants of other latitudes were coming, especially of the north of Africa, and this way it was as the quarter turned a puerblood crucible, with synagogs, mosques and churches.

The Belleville temperature rises especially on Tuesday and Saturdays, when he installs his famous market to himself outdoors in Boulevard de Belleville. It is then when many street artists can be seen realizing his workmanship in the outskirts or in the park of the quarter. This green lung is provided with a lookout where from nice panoramas of the city are obtained since it was designed on a hill.
You can make use of the visit to the quarter to know the cemetery of Père Lachaise, where there are some of the most famous graves of the world.
Route: To travel to Paris

Gastronomy of Ukraine: Borsch, soup of beets

2009-11-03T12:13:00.001-08:00

The Borsch is one of the most famous soups of East Europe, a plate that eats up in most of the hearths since it is very easy to prepare and very nourishing. Although this soup is common in countries like Russia, Poland or Romania, it is very typical in Ukraine, where it is known for being the most traditional plate of the country.
His principal ingredient is the beet and his making process is very simple. Enclosed it is tastier if, to the last moment, it serves it to itself with a cream steady flow or if there is added meat, sausages, potatoes or mushrooms.

But there is enough of preambles, I leave you with this basic recipe to fight the cold:
Ingredients:
- 1 kilo of beets
- Half a vinegar glass
- 2 dl of tomato concentrate
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 cda of flour
- Go out, c/n
- 1 cdta of sugar
- It waters down, c/n
- Cream, c/n.
- Cut parsley, to taste.
Procedure:
- To wash the beets, to peel them and to cut them in tracks.
- To cook in a pan with water and to add the vinegar when the water should begin to boil.
- To lower the fire to the minimum and to cook between 40 and 45 minutes.
- To incorporate the concentrated tomato and to mix.
- In another receptacle, to mix the egg yolks with the sugar and the flour. To mix.
- To incorporate the broth of the beets into the miscellany and to allow to rest.
- When it is cold, to take the miscellany to the ice-cream maker.
- before serving, throwing a cream chorillo and decorating with the cut parsley.
Route: Kitchen of Europe of this one

Halloween 09: Plickley, the pleased people of the United Kingdom will not have celebrations

2009-11-03T00:03:00.001-08:00

The people d and Pluckley, in Kent's county, is a calm place most of the year, except when October 31 comes and 12 bogeys through that they live there cheer up to go out of his haunts to cover the locality. They say that in some moments it is possible to see a teacher of school who died flat broke, a poltergeist in the local pub. Even to a person who walks along the highway and to a monk.
Illusion or reality, such is the attraction that these bogeys generate that in Halloween the place becomes very popular for a few days and that's why, far from the traditions of the Night of Bruges, this year the Parochial Council of Pluckley has decided to prohibit the celebration of Halloween.

The inhabitants of the people seem to be happy with the decision, tired of anxious curious tourists receive for amusing itself a few days between legends and myths. Like that it is like this year there will be neither celebrations nor entertainments. Neither tours to discover to the bogeys, barbecues, beers or fair of diversions.
The people will dawn calmly to enjoy a day like any other one, greeting to the bogeys through that there they live, like every morning of his lives.
Route: Intelligent Travel Blog

English pubs: the worry for the meal

2009-11-02T05:58:00.001-08:00

Who does not give up before a delightful ale. There are great those who dream of reserving a flight itself, checking the hotels offer in London to land concerning hours and to savor a frozen beer. Without doubts, any of the best pubs are in London since there are offered beers of all the types, with really handmade versions that wake up the admiration.
Where the city does not stand out too much it is in the gastronomic title and this way it is as the scales are unbalanced: fabulous beers, humble plates. Nevertheless, the idea is to improve the quality of the English meal of the hand of the Gastropubs, a new concept that is born with the intention of offering letters of interesting plates in the English bars.

This idea was born in the decade of ´90 when the pub The Eagle began to prepare different delights with the intention of rescuing of the negligence the taste for the gastronomy. It was as well as the beers begun to be accompanied on tasty plates to taste. This form transformed in an increasing tradition and this way it is as since then there have been born some pubs that seduce the clients with an interesting menu.
The secret of these establishments is in that they feel proud both of his bars and of his kitchens, something that without doubts sums up the good intentions of his proprietors.
Route: Urban path

The thematic Asterix park in Paris

2009-11-01T22:17:00.001-08:00

Asterix is one of the most important personages of the French cómic and that's why, repeating the narrow relation that Mickey joins the mouse with the United States, in France there could not be missing a thematic park that pays tribute to the creature created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in 15959.
The thematic Asterix park is placed to only 30 kilometers of Paris and is like a Disney to small scale. Much more modest, it is provided with some big attractions how it is the case of the Tonnerre of Zeus, the roller coaster of bigger wood of Europe.

The place is divided in five areas with the idea of counting the history of the personage. Like that it is as there is the area of “The Gaul”, “The Roman Empire”, “Greece“, “The Vikings” and “Across The time”. All these spaces are provided with all kinds of attractions and there spectacles and parades are realized to remember the history of the darling Asterix, which so much it has entertained to big and small.
The park also be at scarce distance of the airport Charles de Gaulle therefore if you want to visit it you can check so much the hotels offer in Paris like that one that is in the proximities of the airport this way to enjoy the park concerning minutes.
Route: Turismito

The longest bridge of Europe is in Lisbon

2009-11-01T14:44:00.001-08:00

It surprises with his extension and thanks to her it dominates the scenery of Lisbon. The P uente Vaco gives Scale it was inaugurated in the year 1998 and it is a question of the longest bridge of Europe, with a 17.3 kilometers extension.
Due to his length it is a bridge very popular and visited by the tourism of the world. Considering his extension, part of the bridge is placed on the sea of the Straw, in the mouth of the Tagus, while the rest is shaped by viaducts that were constructed to protect very rich and diverse areas of the bank.

This bridge was inaugurated in the fifth centenary of the trip to the Indies of the Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama and his construction supposed an intense work of engineering. Divided in four parts, it has been designed to support earthquakes and has a 155 meters height, by what it can be discerned from different places.
The engineers and architects stayed on 18 months constructing the bridge and in him it circulates a freeway of six rails.
Do you want to know this marvel of the engineering? Well, you must only plan a trip to Portugal, look at the hotels offer in Lisbon and tackle the trip. Without doubts, this one and other places of interest they will cost the experience.
Route: Newspaper of the traveler

Stockholm, green capital and cosmpolita

2009-11-01T05:27:00.001-08:00

The city of Stockholm is an example of ecology and for that reason the European Commission has elected the Swedish capital as as the first European green capital in the year 2010.
The reasons of the election send to the commitment of the inhabitants and the government for the solutions search as regards the climate change as well as for the respect to the environment that is observed.
But in addition to a green city it is a place with big attractions that deserve the attention. Stockholm offers diverse proposals for all the tastes, as it is the case of the Tour Millenium, which turns concerning the trilogy written by Stiega Larsson and invites to know the most emblematic places of the saga.

Also there is Talk of Town, an audioguía that allows to know 56 sights of the city in 6 languages and in December, 2009 Sky View inaugurates, two gondolas that placed a130 meters of height where from a fabulous panorama of the city is obtained.
The museum of photos Fotografisk to es another place to visit during the trip. The enclosure will open his doors at the beginning of 2010 and it will be placed in the building Stora Tullhuse.
Route: 20 minutes

Tourist information office gay in London

2009-10-31T13:21:00.001-07:00

The tourism gay has gained space in the last years and that's why the whole industry has developed concerning him. Such is the importance that the Englishmen grant to these travelers that in the city of London gay has inaugurated the first tourist office dedicated to the tourism.
Hotels in London, tickets for different attractions, leaflets and specific information are some of the facility that there offers this curious office that he thinks about how to promote to the city like destination gay-friendly.

Following the lead of Ámsterdam, which opened his office not long ago, this place thinks about how to satisfy the questions of this public. In accordance with the director of the center, London has the best life gay of the world and that's why in her an information bureau of these characteristics cannot be missing. The center will be opened on the street Lisle, 30 both for the national tourists and for the foreigners.
Route: Gadling

Palazzo Pitti of Florence

2009-10-31T05:15:00.001-07:00

Who did not want to reserve a flight, check the hotels offer in Italy and go on a journey towards this wonderful country when the city of Florence breathes us closely. This old metropolis is one of the nicest of the world, a place that offers big attractions so much in what it does to his historical buildings as to his museums and galleries.
One of these big places is Palazzo Pitti, an ancient construction that belonged to one of the most important families of the city, who were showing big enthusiasm for the architecture. Like that it is as it is a question of a building exhuberante designed by Brunelleschi in the XVth century, famous architect of the Italian Renaissance.

The front of the palace is famous for his ink pads and once inside the tourist will remain impressed by the Boboli gardens. Also they will be able to enjoy the numerous museums that they rest inside the building, between them Modern Galleria d'Arte and Galleria Palatini, where there are exhibited works of big painters like Rubens, Rafael, Tizinao or Caravaggio.
But there is more for discovering of the hand of the Museum delle Porcelane, the Museum degli Argenti, with an important collection of silver objects or the Museum delle Carroce, dedicated to the carriages of other epochs.

The Museum of the Auschwitz is already in Facebook

2009-10-30T21:27:00.001-07:00

It is not necessary to analyze the hotels offer in Poland to go on a journey towards the darkness. It is enough to register our e-mail address, to choose a key and to enter the Facebook.
Because far from that one country, this social network today allows to know the particulars of the Museum of Auschwitz thanks to the fact that now this enclosure has deposited Facebook. For many it is a way of knowing the past without treading on the soil where horror has happened so much, for others, a way of expressing his opinions before the biggest tragedy of the world history. Also there are those who want to aim at the public young man, to educate them on the Holocaust and his terrible consequences.

All the reasons are valid and that's why this museum has decided to join one of the most active social networks of the moment. Across the profile Auschwitz Memorial it is possible to know the life in the field of crueller concentration of the world by means of a history shaped by videos, photos, documents, movies and a series of references.
The idea of the cultural entity is that of generations spread the horrors of the holocaust to new: "If we want, to our mission, to educate agreeably the young people, to teach them the responsibility (…) we must use the mass media that they use”, expressed Pawel Sawicki, responsible for the museum.
Route: AFP

Tour for the secret tunnels of Berlin

2009-10-30T13:57:00.001-07:00

I believe that now more that it is never time to look at the hotels offer in Berlin. The reasons are changed, it is a question of a city of the most attractive of Europe, with a cultural offer of avant-garde and an important history on his backs.
Not only it loads with the drama of the Holocaust and the sad gear assembly commanded by Hitler and the divided Nazi but also with the division provoked by the Wall of Berlin, which separated the city during decades.

For of that time, many inhabitants risked his life with the idea of escaping and this way it was as there were constructed numerous secret tunnels that, for some, were meaning the freedom. These secret ways that helped to escape from many persons were constructed by Hasso Herchel who today, with 74 years of age, cheers up to show them to the public.
Like that it is like this tour he invites to know the labyrinth of secret tunnels, many of which were connecting houses on both sides of the wall, with secret exits located in the cellars of the housings. In general, the ways were constructed of west this one, since the garbage was following this trip.
The excursion invites to know the history of the Cold War closely and in a chilling way.
Route Jaunted

They will open a museum dedicated to Pavarotti in Módena

2009-10-30T05:05:00.001-07:00

Luciano Pavarotti was one of the most outstanding lyric singers of the world of the musician, a man with big talent and a bountiful musical ear that he could conquer from the world with his powerful and sonorous voice.
His produced death two years ago surprised his followers and the entire world and today it is still surprised. Perhaps that's why, his questioned wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, decided to create a museum in the house of the city of Módena where the artist was living his last years.

With this initiative, the widow thinks about how to remember the life and work of the singer and there is big enthusiasm concerning this project, so much on the part of the inhabitants of the city as of the proper mayor. In accordance with his comments, the idea is “to announce to the public the spaces in which the tenor was living, creating a trip for his life and his successes, as it is done in honor of Enzo Ferrari”.
What will be the réquiem in honor to this big artist? A biography written by the widow and a possible movie.
One might think that it should already be looking at the hotels offer in Módena to do a reservation and to visit this biographical museum but not, it is not necessary to pass. For the time being the project is in nappies and a tangible reality will stay on a few years turning.
Route: ABC

Oviedo, a historic city

2009-10-29T21:15:00.001-07:00

To know the entrails of Asturias nothing better than to visit Oviedo, a city that he rests between the rivers Nalón and Nora who was founded by the monk Máximo and Fromestano in the year 761.
The history has marked the spirit of this capital that overcomes thousand two hundred years of life and that's why his architectural heredity is very rich, with places worth visiting like the Cathedral of San Salvador, which works began in the XIVth century and it presents several styles prevailing the flamboyant Gothic. Stop forced in the Milky Way, this historic monument coexists with others of big importance as the case of the Chapel is San Miguel of Lillo of the IXth century, the Palace Santa Maria of the Naranco, that dates of the IXth century, the art source prerrománico Foncalada or the Fontán, a set of buildings of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries that form a square and where on Thursday, Saturdays and Sundays the Market of the Fontán is realized.

In the grounds of Oviedo also you can listen to the Band of Bagpipes “City of Oviedo”, to an unforgettable experience, or savor the excellent Asturian kitchen in some of many gastronomic establishments of the city.
The best way of knowing the city is covering every small bend and, in this sense, the cars rent in Oviedo is the best option since with the vehicles you will improve the times this way to know all the places of interest of this beautiful and historical city.

Museum Albertina de Viena

2009-10-29T13:15:00.001-07:00

Rich in culture, Vienna opens his doors for the art across numerous public and private institutions. One of them is the Museum Albertina, a valuable enclosure that is in the center of the city and I joust behind the öpera of Vienna, on the street Albertinaplatz, 1. This cultural space works inside the Bastion of August, a structure that was a part of the walls that were surrounding Vienna.

In him artists' big works are exhibited as It Gives Vinci, to Give good results, Klimt or Manet as well as an impactante collection of graphic arts shaped by approximately 65 thousand drawings and a million engravings realized in the different centuries.
In addition to the permanent collection, the museum organizes temporary exhibitions, like the organized one last year concerning the figure of Vincent Van Gogh. It was then when 170 works of the artist appeared. In this moment, there is in validity the big autumn exhibition, which was inaugurated last September 11 and it will be current until January 10, 2010. The same one will present impressionistic works of different museums, 75 of them of the Museum Wallraf-Richartz and of the foundation Corboud of Cologne.

The natural delight of Ireland

2009-10-28T19:20:00.001-07:00

It is true that for being the capital of Ireland Dublin attracts the look of the traveler nevertheless the country is rich in sceneries and his history also takes us to wonderful places that it is worth while discovering during our trip.
You have two options at the time of organizing a trip to Ireland: you can look at the hotels offer in Dublin to reserve a room and then to realize walks taking the capital as an epicenter or there is the option to realize a slower circuit stopping in diverse interest points.

If you choose for the latter alternative you must not forget any urgent paseoss as it is the case of Belfast or the walled city of Derby, placed on the banks of the river Foyle and constructed in 1450. The cliffs of Ireland and his green vales also are an attention focus and this way it is like the Mourne mountains they conquer the look since there are the highest of Northern Ireland. If you are in form you can climb the Slieve Donard to a 840 meters height to appreciate a panorama of Northern Ireland and the Scotch coasts.
Another touching walk is the vale of the Silence, where they rest nature reserves, rivers and lakes without forgetting the Roadway of the Giant, a 20 kilometers route with any more than forty thousand hexagonal columns of volcanic origin that touches historical places as the bridge of Carric-a-rede-Rope, the suspension bridge of the island of Rathlin, which has been declared a Patrimony of the Humanity.
Route: 20 minutes