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Riccardo Muti
at Spain's Newest Concert Hall
King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain were in attendance on June 3 as a
gala concert conducted by Riccardo Muti inaugurated the new Teatro Auditorio
de San Lorenzo de El Escorial near Madrid. |
Visit Barcelona!
City of Gaudi, Picasso and much more...
If there's a reason to visit Spain, it's Barcelona. The city is energetic
and full of ideas.
That is evident as you walk Barcelona's main boulevard, La Rambla. Thirty
metres wide it is lined with trees and enlivened by visitors from all
corners of the globe. Summer is the height of tourist season. |
Climbing on the Costa Brava
Costa Brava is famous for its wonderful beaches and its gracious climate.
Palamós is located some 120 km north of
Barcelona…right
on the coast. It is a tourist magnet attracting loads of people looking for
sun, sea and the Mediterranean atmosphere. |
Majorca Still a
Major Attraction
If you are one of the thousands of Northern Ireland holiday makers who have
fallen in love with Spain then Majorca must be a favourite. Since the
package holiday hit the market in the late 70's the island of Majorca has
been a major tourist magent with plenty to offer both young and old.
Capital of the island, famous for its beaches and beautiful sea, Palma, has
a beautiful historic quarter, deeply marked by history. The cathedral, the
Palace of Almudaina, the fish market and Plaza Mayor are some of the places
where visitors will have to stop....... |
Kumuka Worldwide introduce La Tomatina tour
Leading Adventure tour operator,
Kumuka Worldwide,
have launched a 14 Day tour of Spain and Portugal that visits the annual La
Tomatina festival. |
Seville: the big
orange
Three features make
Seville stand
out not only as a city in Spain but one of the finest settlements in Europe.
They are the smell, the streets and the tiles. |
Resort
report: Fuerteventura
Just 50 miles from Saharan Africa, the island of
Fuerteventura has a breathtaking, barren beauty. Despite the volcanic
terrain, it has some of the best beaches in the
Canary Islands - miles and miles of largely deserted sand. Guaranteed
sunshine and negligible rain make it a great year-round destination, and
there is no time difference after the four-hour flight. |
Things are
hotting up on Spain’s warm coast
THE area around
Murcia is known as the Costa Calida – “the warm coast” – but it’s not
just the temperatures that are sizzling. This relatively undiscovered area
just south of the Costa Blanca has seen the heat turned up on property
prices too. |
Culture club
Barcelona
STANDING before me is a man in a black leotard, his long red hair flailing
as he pogos across the stage. He grins manically at the enthusiastic crowd,
while delivering lines from a medley of Police songs with, I assume,
chemically enhanced vigour, backed by a Gene Simmons look-alike on screaming
lead guitar and a strangely impassive giant on the bass. |
Double shoot-out in the sun
El Rompido, one of Spain's glitzy new resort courses, will host the
grand finals of two mainstream Ulster tournaments this season. |
The
appeal of Seville's fantastic Feria Festival
VISUALISE a scene where dark-haired beauties flounce by in colourful
be-ruffled flamenco dresses . . . the affluent young landed class, handsome
in traditional upscale "gaucho" style, ride past with a studied arrogance on
thoroughbred horses . . . |
Spain's top
secret
IT'S THE oldest city in Europe, but standing on the beach in
Cadiz,
with the sun glinting off the gold dome of the cathedral and the
neighbouring brightly coloured houses in the distance, Latin music drifting
in on the breeze from a local bar, you could be forgiven for thinking you've
been transported to the Caribbean - Cuba, to be precise. |
New
Crowne Plaza to open at Costa Del Sol in March 2006
A new Crowne Plaza Estepona-Costa del Sol is due to open in March 2006
offering luxurious and stylish accommodation and top-class amenities in the
heart of the
Costa
del Sol. |
High
Style, Low Rates: Spanish Paradores
The country has put $500 million into redoing its paradores, with talented
designers eagerly signing on to give gorgeous old buildings their due. |
Catalonia:
endless cultural heritage
In the northeast of Spain you
will find a fascinating region where culture plays a privileged role:
Catalonia. Come to this age-old land and discover its wealth of artistic
heritage: from prehistoric rock art and remains from the Greek and Roman
civilisations, to over 2,000 Romanesque buildings and spectacular Modernist
constructions. |
Mojácar -
Spain, the ideal winter choice
he Arabs played a significant role in the village’s past which even today
can be seen in its architecture, with its streets filled with flowers and
the white facades of its houses, all of which combine to make it a place of
fascinating contrasts. Indalo, a mythic symbol, is an important figure for
Mojácar and indeed an emblem for the entire province. |
Felipe and Letizia escape to Asturias
Mum-to-be Princess Letizia has been enjoying a rural getaway with her
statuesque husband Felipe. Spain's future king and queen were spotted
strolling hand-in-hand through the scenic countryside of
Asturias, on the northern coast of their home country. |
Paella, Spain’s gastronomic heritage
Paella is the undisputed king of local cuisine in nearly every town and
village of the
region of Valencia. Its ingredients can vary greatly, with chicken,
rabbit, rice, saffron, tomato, green beans or sweet pepper all playing their
part, amongst others. |
Running with the Bulls in Pamplona
For one week each year in early July, the sleepy mountain town of
Pamplona,
Spain, hosts one of the biggest parties in Europe. As the headline
attraction of the Fiesta de San Fermin, the Running of the Bulls draws over
half a million revelers from all over the world. |
Dishing
up Barcelona
Chefs revel in the sheer pleasure of food
Chefs in Spain's culture capital are turning the tables on food
scientists and getting back to basics. Well, almost. Anya Von Bremzen puts
foie gras dust behind her and takes a bite of things to come. |
Newly-engaged Ashley and Cheryl in Marbella
Football ace Ashley Cole and his new fiancée Cheryl Tweedy have been
celebrating their engagement with a break in sun-drenched Marbella. The
glamorous couple jetted out to the Spanish resort just after going public
with their plans to become man and wife. |
Woody
Allen tells Spaniards he wants to shoot a film in Barcelona
Woody Allen said on Saturday he wants to shoot a movie in Barcelona. |
Moorish Spain
Its glamorous coastal resorts are frequented by the likes of Sean Connery,
Baroness von Thyssen and Adnan Khashoggi. But leave Spain’s Costa del Sol
behind and head inland to the picturesque white towns of Andalusia. Here are
four charming places you must visit – and fabulous places to stay |
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The
Alhambra, Granada, Spain
This mighty medieval fortress is in southern Spain. Behind it stretch the
snow-capped hills of the Sierra Nevada. Below it, the modern town of
Granada. |
Spain
Keen To Woo Indian MICE Market
Spain Tourism Board recently conducted their four-city roadshow to foster
tourism relations between the two countries. The roadshows were conducted in
Mumbai,
Delhi,
Chennai and
Bangalore, with an aim to target the international MICE segment in
India and to draw this
segment to major Spanish cities such as Madrid and
Barcelona. |
Bilbao's restoration and renaissance
LIKE THOUSANDS of visitors before me, I enjoyed Barcelona’s Belle Époque
architecture (Gaudi in particular) and Madrid’s Prado museum and vibrant
Rastro Sunday Market. However, there was something about Spain’s Basque
region that struck a chord within me that went deeper than the sensory
pleasures of a European escape. |
Party time: Where
to have fun in Spain in April
Spain's biggest party starts next month in
Seville,
while medieval knights do battle in Alicante and that most
Andalusian of traditions, the romeria, gets underway. In his regular
travel column, Ben Jones suggests where to go in April. |
Regional recipes rule in kitchens of Spain, Portugal
The flavors of the Iberian Peninsula come to delicious life in Elisabeth
Luard's newly published ``The Food of Spain and Portugal'' (Kyle Books,
2005). Luard - one of Britain's foremost cookbook writers - has lived off
and on in the region all her life. |
Spain looks for a change market mix, but still pushes sun & beach
The number of foreign tourists visiting
Spain rose 3.4% in 2004 to a
record 53.6 million, Spain's Secretary of State for Commerce and Tourism,
Pedro Meja Gomez, announced to the media, confirming the industry was
resisting increasing competition from eastern Europe. The number of arrivals
in December was 3.1 million, an increase of 12.9% over the same month a year
earlier, Gomez added. That helped make up for a slight decline in the peak
month of August. |
A Celtic land
in Spain
Galicia
The northern towns of
A Coruña and
Gijon offer uncrowded beaches and pleasant boulevards. |
Spain boasts bay of
42 beaches
Mention "la playa" in Spain and most people think of the sizzling strands of
the Costa Brava and
Costa del
Sol on the Mediterranean. But shift to hondartza, "beach" in the
Basque language of Euskera, and an entire new northern world opens. |
Basque door
to rare glory
Beyond Bilbao,
there's a whole forgotten world in this corner of Spain, with a unique
language, cuisine and beauty. Jon Bryant explores. |
Semester in Spain, An Amazing Experience
My time in
Granada no longer seems linear: I don't distinguish between the
beginning, middle or end of my experience. I simply know that I could not
have hand- picked a better place to study. From the moment I arrived in
Spain, I knew it was a match for me. To be honest, I never experienced the
culture shock or homesickness that we were lectured about. I simply felt at
home in eastern Andalucia. |
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