In my new life as retiree my blog is my biggest entertainement and before anything else, I like to thank everyone of my readers and followers to stay with me over the years since November 26 2010 !!! Thank you !!! Especially my first likes from former travel forum friend Jeannette I decided to trim some of my older posts in my series Some news from Spain and condense them as not to lose the most important parts, me think, of them, Therefore, this is my new work, the condense news of my dear Spain, Hope you enjoy it as I.
Some news from Spain XXXII November 4, 2016
Now, good news: RENFE will begin offering ‘wifi’, Internet in its bullet trains, AVE, from December 5 2016. The first line in this new service will be the Madrid to Seville segment. The railway operator intends to go extending its new service to the rest of the AVE lines over the next year to offer it in all of them before the end of 2017.
I have been many times even in my youth with a great poet’s history is Soria; Come to know Soria as Antonio Machado discovered it in his book of poems “Campos de Castilla” Soria in three hours, leaving Madrid Chamartin railway station. It is half an hour’s journey, in Siguenza, when passengers are transferred to the time of Machado, in 1912, thanks to the presence of some very special passengers representing the life of the poet and his work in the same wagon train. The actors, dressed in time, bring to light the traditions, legends and the most peculiar anecdotes of the area, accompanied by the most famous verses of the author and other curious stories narrated by a reviewer of early 20C eccentric. Antonio Machado scenarios are a baroque chapel of San Saturio, which rises over a former Visigoth hermit cave, with excellent views over the Douro River, and the monastery of San Juan de Duero, the wonder of the Romanesque known also as the reverence of San Juan Douro, of which its splendid cloister and the Church of the 13C, are conserved and are two inescapable stop of this route
Casa Arabe or Arab House | Alcalá, 62 | Príncipe de Vergara Metro | Tel +34 91 563 30 66 .The Casa Árabe and resident library, Balqis, host a monthly club that read and comment on works of the great names in the Arab world, both classic of contemporary authors and new publications. Scholars and specialists that enrich the debate with their contributions attend each session
49 km from Zaragoza is one of the more phantom towns of the country, literally and figuratively. On the one hand, the town of Belchite is a handful of lone, dilapidated and abandoned buildings that can only be accessed today through guided tours for tourists. Mainly, the municipality is known for having been the scene of one of the fiercest contests of the Spanish Civil War, the battle of Belchite, which took place between August 24 and September 6, 1937 As the last battle of 1937, constructions, which so far had survived the attacks, suffered irreparable damage by bombing which caused the complete abandonment of the town, today known as Pueblo Viejo (Old Town). Rather than rebuild it, the Franco regime decided to create a new one a few meters away, new town of Belchite or Pueblo Nuevo (currently, 1,647 inhabitants), and thus leave intact the ruins of the former as a symbol of the war.
Eurocon 2016. Nov 4-6 in Barcelona (CCCB and other venues). Find European science fiction, or what is the same, more than 120 activities between live interviews, presentations, screenings and panel discussions. There is a shopping area for fans of the genre
Some news from Spain XXXIII December 14, 2016
Consuegra by the Sierra de los Molinos is mandatory if you visit Consuegra. La Muela Castle (Castillo de la Muela also of Consuegra), one of the best preserved of all Castilla La Mancha castles where the history of several centuries will be known through a theatrical visit and will be appointed a gentlemen with a wooden sword for the kids. If you are an adult and want to, don’t stay with the desire and become an authentic noble toledano
The Médulas, are the gold mines that were exploded in the open since the Emperor Octavio Augusto one of the few examples covered within that category. The medulas mountains two millennia ago supplied the precious metal to Rome now filtered through its tunnels the history of one of the most unique corners of Spain: el Bierzo. Plinio the Old wrote about it in its history theme Naturalis. At the time the gold extracted were the equivalent of 1.6 tons of gold per year. The mountain sits in the northwest corner of the Aquilanos mountains next to the Valley of the River Sil, the Medulas are considered the greater gold mine of all the Roman Empire. The snow accumulated in the nearby Monte Teleno played a fundamental role in the exploitation of the mines. Converted into water during the spring, arrived at Cape River and fed the seven channels bordering the mountain not only through the channels that were used to ‘steal’ the Duero and the Sil, water tunnels – which are preserved today for more than 100 kilometers – or the large artificial caves that you can visit,
The exhibition ‘ Meta painting. A trip to the idea of art ‘ (from November 15 to February 19) that opens the Prado Museum. Through 137 masterpieces by artists such as Goya , Velázquez, Titian, Rubens, El Greco and Van Dyck, The Prado reflect on the craft, limits, rules and the protagonists of art from art itself . Based on the Royal Collections and the Spanish painting (115 of the 137 exhibits are from the Prado, of which only 52 are in the rooms of the Museum since most are in warehouses and deposits elsewhere , which are joined by 22 on loans), this exhibition examines the limits of that mirror that society and the artist is art that goes beyond the golden rectangle that it identified. And we continue at Prado, the one and only with The Prado Museum delves into José de Ribera in ‘ Ribera. Master of drawing ‘ (from 22 November to February 19) You can see from the nearly 160 known you will see 52 drawings, along with 10 paintings and eight prints. Of these, a dozen have been in Spain as adoptions from Berlin and New York like the “ Hercules’ resting”.
The Mapfre Foundation opens the Miro space, a permanent collection with 65 works from private collections that reveal the more rebellious side of the catalan painter. Kills them not only at the level of formal leaving their mark on the surface but also using waste material, splints or recycling these banal canvas sleeping on the stalls in fact, 10 works of this kind are only known and four can be seen in Madrid from December 14 in the space Miro which inaugurated the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid
The Andalucian walls had nearly a km long and it is the oldest artistic monument in Madrid as witin it you have the Cultural Institute (CalleMayor, 86) with a piece of it and then at the restaurant Korgui (Calle del Rollo, 8) , and in the parking lot of Rouco Varela (Bailén, 12); but the best preserved stretch with a battered façade is located in the Cuesta de la Vega, alongside the Emir Mohamed I square , opposite Almudena Cathedral. Our Señora de Almudena Cathedral or should we say Al-Mudayna? in Arabic means the Citadel, as it is there, in a tower of the Muslim wall, where locals hid the blessed Virgin once learned the infidel enemy was about to take the Peninsula , even with temporary lapses the Virgin was miraculously discovered on November 9, 1085 and protected his devotees all attempt of reconquest by the Muslims. Such was the intention of the Almoravides camping field where today is the Jardin del Moro but they were thrown back by a miracle of the Virgin causing them to have epidemics of plague to force them to withdrawed
Moro de la Morería, Christians could not pass by the gate of the Moors; the Arab Court of Justice, the alamin, was located in the Plaza del Alamillo (its name comes from there, later stood the chiquitillo alamo); the biggest Souk unfolded in the Plaza de la Paja, in the Plaza de la Villa, the mineret; here is where the Lujanes bought a mansion which is the oldest building in Madrid today; Alamborada Tower reminds the Minaret of a Mosque with its bricks, blind arches and typical tiles of Mudejar art. A watchtower to warn his people of future Christian invasions. The watchtower that drivers today see when parking in the Plaza de Oriente on the Floor 1.
Museum of San Isidro, the patron of Madrid was born in Mayrit shortly before the city passed into Christian hands; under these circumstances, it’s more likely that the farmer had professed the Muslim religion before converting to Catholicism. And obliterated his heretic become base of miracles – up to 400 are attributed to the Saint! According to this hypothesis ,the Saint was called Idriss actually, a journeyman and worked all his life on the service of the family Vargas. What is now the Museum of San Isidro was his house. There is the well of his umpteenth miracles, but ,also parts of the archeological find that we speak of today. The entrance is free and is located in the district of the Latina.
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About 30 minutes east of Turégano,by car you reach the lovely walled town of Pedraza. Located on a promontory in the piedmont area of Segovia and guarded by its fortress (Castillo de Pedraza ,built 13C and rebuilt 200 years later) ,the oldest in Europe.The castle was the residence of the Fernàndez de Velasco,then the highest authority of the armies of Castilla (Castile). The enclosure has an imposing Tower of honor or Homenaje ,a moat and is surrounded in the majority by a cliff. The tower is the Museum of Ignacio Zuloaga (the painter) ,which includes the study room and their private rooms as well. The weapons and entremuros yards ar the most visited rooms in the castle
There you go folks, a big task but a work of love to keep the best, me think of these wonderful older posts over the years, These are what I think worth keeping of my older Some news from Spain series, and I thank you, Again, hope you enjoy this post as I
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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