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SPAIN LIVE service - not only the monumental capital of Madrid and the Mediterranean metropolis Barcelona are well worth a visit - Spain has many different landscapes, climates and sights you can experience and enjoy. These are worth even medium and small cities whose historic center a visit. Ten Travel Tips:
Pamplona - bulls and good food: Apart from Hemingway's novel "Fiesta" and the famous bull run in the second week of July, is the capital of the Navarra region known for good food and beautiful surroundings. Pamplona is scenically very attractive, with old churches and grazing cattle, deep forests and fertile fields. Here is one of the best kitchens Spain, with very good and fresh produce. The old town is compact, lively and popular place of pilgrimage that migrate along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela.
Bilbao - Star architecture Industrieödnis: A walk through the modern architecture offers the largest city in the Basque country. The previously unattractive industrial city has been upgraded in the nineties: the subway stations built the Briton Sir Norman Foster, the sail-shaped bridge Valencia's international architect Santiago Calatrava. And of course, shines the futuristic Guggenheim Museum by the American Frank O. Gehry. addition to the many taverns in the old town, the parks and the Gothic cathedral, of course.
accommodate demands of the Guggenheim Museum, Picasso's world-famous anti-war painting "Guernica" to be rejected by the central government in Madrid - the bombing of the 30 miles east of Bilbao, located town of Guernica in 1937 was the occasion for the famous painting. But Bilbao has a football club that hires only Basque players.
Oviedo - not only by Woody Allen loved: The historic center of the charming capital of the Asturias region is a pedestrian zone and offers churches, palaces, museums, the late-Gothic cathedral and the famous Campoamor Theatre. This year the Prince of Asturias prizes are awarded to individuals from around the world. So far this: Günter Grass, Helmut Kohl, Steffi Graf or even Woody Allen.
Oviedo is the home of cider, Princess Letizia, wife of Crown Prince Felipe, and the English Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso. The Conference Centre is also streamlined by the Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava. The surrounding area is rural and recovery of the sea is not far.
Santiago de Compostela - From pilgrims and popes: capital of the rainy northwest English region of Galicia (not to be confused with the Polish Galicia) and Page 830 of pilgrimage. In the Middle Ages Santiago was next to Jerusalem and Rome, the most important pilgrimage destination for Christians. Since the end of the Franco era, the St. James again a popular pilgrimage route, most recently with such a rush of visitors that the contemplation, especially in the last 100 miles, sometimes suffers.
The cathedral is one of the most powerful in Spain. In November 2010 the Pope visited during the "Holy Year" Santiago. In all cities and the coasts of Galicia, you can eat excellent seafood and fresh fish. The barnacles (Percebes) that must be laboriously picked from the rocks, are a specialty. Another is quite vile the Galician potatoes.
Salamanca - Old School and Youth Style: The second oldest university in Spain brings today over 40,000 students in the city on the Tormes River and the students form a lively contrast to the great poets who lived in those venerable walls and learned. The relatively closed city center with several historic buildings is good to travel on foot. Near the Cathedral, the Art Deco Museum Casa Lis is a collection of small figures of bronze and ivory (Criselefantinas) and many other Art Nouveau objects. The Plaza Mayor is one of the most beautiful in Spain.
Toledo - Religious Tolerance: The best view of Toledo has one of the Parador Hotel (nationwide hotel chain) on the other side of the Tagus River. The picturesque old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site by UNESCO and stands with their churches, mosques and synagogues today for the harmony of different religions and cultures. Catholics, Muslims and Jews have lived together for centuries in relative peace. Toledo was until 1561 the capital of the Kingdom of Castile, and only after King Philip II moved the residence in the 70 kilometers to Madrid, which advanced to the capital of Spain.
Valencia - City of the Arts: With 800,000 inhabitants Valencia equal the third largest city in Spain. Are attracted to the port and especially if you travel with children, the City of Arts and Sciences, the architect Calatrava has built in the former river bed of the now diverted Turia. This includes the largest aquarium in Europe.
One of the first museums of contemporary art in Spain, the IVAM, which attracts a fixed collection and changing exhibitions. The museum's city as "inventor" of paella. And very tasty and refreshing in the summer, the horchata, which looks like milk but is made from tiger nuts. Many Valencians prepare all year preparing for the multi-day Spring Festival "Fallas" with the huge colorful sculptures on 19 to March, the last holiday lighted, and the city fill with smoke.
Seville - Andalusian gem The historical core of the city belongs to the Guadalquivir River to the Unesco World Heritage Site. Cathedral, palaces, the archives of the colonial period and the Giralda tower form an interesting ensemble. As the scene of the opera "Carmen" (the French composer Georges Bizet), the city is a paradise for flamenco friends and with the solemn Easter processions not only for religious people an event. Sevilla is ideal for warm summer nights in the street cafes or on the roof terraces of the hotel (overlooking the Giralda tower to the hotel Doña María). And unforgettable: the wonderful Plaza de España on the outskirts of Seville's green lungs, the wretched Parque de María Luisa.
Granada - Alhambra: of tapas that you get to the beer or small glass of wine usually served for free, you can still be good enough in Granada. Again, the old town is beautiful, majestically against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada. And of course the monument that embodies the influence of the seven centuries of Arab rule in the Iberian Peninsula: the Alhambra palace with its Generalife palaces. Since it is not always - and if so, then at most by 8 clock in the morning - are there any tickets, it is advisable to reserve online. Granada has created a great musical tradition and a beer - so as well? - "Alhambra" is.
Ronda - What the director Orson Welles and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke have in common? Both loved Ronda, the Andalusian mountain village with the huge canyon and probably the oldest bullring in Spain. It is thanks to the Baroque portal, the wooden bleachers and rows of columns for bullfighting opponents also worth seeing. Welles even certain that his Ash in the vicinity of the arena should be scattered. The 160 meter deep gorge separates the old from the new town.
Ronda has several classy hotels: The Hotel Reina Victoria praised by Hemingway the writer, does still the poet Rilke, who had spent at the turn of 1912/13 there for two months. The old town on the plateau is surrounded by idyllic landscape: "There's strong, beautiful air, mountains pitched like to sing psalms of it," praised Rilke. Clementine Kügler
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