Spain Travel Guide
The white villages route : The Northern Route
This route starts at Zahara de la Sierra. Located next to the reservoir to which it is named, the whole town is declared a National Monument. This small town, typical of the Cadiz mountains, is characterized by steep slopes of the layout of its streets. About 3 km. Grazalema in the direction of a path to the right leads to the Garganta Verde, fantastic place to find the Ermita de la Garganta, impressive cave with stalactites and stalagmites. From Zahara rises to 1357 meters from the Puerto de las Palomas, with a splendid view of the Park of the Sierra de Grazalema. Inside is the pinsapo, majestic fir and authentic relic of the era of ice ages. Read the rest of this entry »
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The white villages route : Andalusia
This route, one of the most classical and popular in Andalusia, the traveler intends to travel more than 20 municipalities in the provinces of Cadiz and Malaga . Towns and cities have in common those white houses with facades of limestone so characteristic of much of Andalusia. An excuse to visit and enjoy the rich and diverse heritage, cultural and natural that are inside each and every one of the places that make this tourism. Churches of different architectural styles from different eras archaeological sites, castles, prehistoric caves, museums … and natural areas as important as the Natural Park of the Acorns and the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park are just some of the gems we find in our journey . Read the rest of this entry »
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Cultural and natural routes Madrid
Reopening of The Palau Güell
The Palau Güell was one of the first works of Catalan artist Antonio Gaudi. Today Heritage is a work of art for seven years remains closed given the restoration work. Has been announced in May that the palace will reopen to visitors, making it more interesting to our visit to Barcelona.
May 26 will reopen to the public commissioned by Eusebio Güell Palace, where the family lived for several years. The trip cost 10 euros and can visit different rooms in the huge residence.
The restoration works were carried out with care, trying to preserve the original style of Palau, thus allowing for surprise visitors with the most exquisite architecture of Gaudí.
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Madrid Card
Madrid Card, Tourism and Travel Pass Madrid Bus Tours – Prices – including services and discounts.
Today we talk about a very practical and efficient tool for those coming to visit the fantastic city of Madrid. This is the Madrid Card. With this card you can access to the best museums, tours and cultural offerings at attractive discounts, and also including public transport and the tourist bus. From a practical way that you save time and money.
This tourist card is the key to the best of the city. Depending on your needs you can choose different types of card. The card “basic” Madrid Card offers you the following services:
Preferential access without having to queue at: the Museum del Prado, the Reina Sofia Museum, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Royal Palace, the Stadium Tour and Wax Museum. Definitely a way to pay much more for your time.
Admission to over 50 Museums and Monuments of Madrid (including the most important museums: Prado, Thyssen-Bornemisza and Reina Sofia). See all the entries.
Rural Houses in Asturias
The tendency for solutions to rural homes, spreads for several years all over Spain. The cottages, located in rugged places, and usually far from cities, offer a concept of complete disconnect with the urban routine. Awakening listening to birdsong, and watching from the window at a landscape of dreams, is what is priceless.
Asturias, meanwhile, offers a natural environment with everything we could hope for rural tourism, and above all, a wide range of cottages. Undoubtedly, the main reason to rent a house in Asturias is the natural environment. This community has a rugged mountainous landscape with numerous national parks and reserves. In fact, Asturias was indeed a pioneer in the development of rural tourism in Spain, geared primarily to domestic tourism.
Asturias, currently has 15,871 seats with lodgings. However, the amount of ever-increasing supply, has not resulted in a deterioration of the natural environment thanks to regular care. In areas around Llanes, Cangas de Onis, Piloña, Villaviciosa, among others, will find a wide variety of lodgings.
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Visit La Giralda
If you come to Sevilla one of the must is La Giralda, the cathedral of the city. Giralda is precisely the name given to the bell tower of the Cathedral of Santa Maria and no one can leave town without knowing it.
A relevant fact is that the lower two thirds of the tower correspond to the minaret of the old mosque of the city, from the late twelfth century, in the Almohad period, while the upper third is a shot in the Christian era added to house the bells .
La Giralda reaches 101 meters in height taking into account the Giraldillo, a bronze sculpture that has the role of vane and is the largest in the European Renaissance. Located on a ball called jar.
The most important of La Giralda which consists of several bodies which have nevertheless succeeded in establishing itself as a harmonious whole, which also accounts for the many cultural heritages of the city. Even for the construction of the Muslim body took the remains of some buildings and stalls of the Roman Hispalis, because we find in them several entries in Latin.
La Giralda was built as a beacon of the mosque between 1184 and 1198, so it is an ancient building is still in perfect condition until today and it is also the Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and declared by UNESCO. It was completed in 1558 with the addition of the belfry.
The visit to La Giralda takes about an hour, and costs 8 euros, although some exceptions can be found here as well as days and times when it is made.
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Cycling routes in Spain
Cycle touring, cycling or tourism, thanks to wins fans the chance to meet, exercise, and the satisfaction of launching a challenge for ourselves. In other entries, numerous tips were leaving for a trip by bike. Now, we are dedicated to meet some of the best cycling routes and tourism in Spain.
While some of cycling routes in Spain are more improvised, many of them have all the information, signage and even security. In general, cycling routes can be classified according to their distance, or by type of landscape in thematic routes.
The long-distance cycling routes in Spain, are the ones we can take several days. Some are as well known as the Camino de Santiago, with its Jacobean Route, in the north of the peninsula, and others such as TransAndalus call, a circuit in Andalusia with stops at the best spots. The sum TransAndalus about 2,000 kilometers across eight provinces of Andalucia. There are of course, more options, such as trans, the Via de la Plata, a circuit through the land of Cid, another for the Ebro or the Way of Hannibal.
As for the shorter route, and the most varied styles, cycling route exist in each region of Spain. For example, in Catalonia, we can make from urban walks around Barcelona by bike, or also, do mountain biking routes starting and coming from Camprodon traditional villages in the Pyrenees of Girona. On the website Friends of Cycling, we can look each of the cycling routes in each community in Spain.
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