This is yours truly with another episode of some news from Spain !!! Lots of things going on , and summer weather is very hot temps all over This is Spain, let me tell you my latest news chosen by yours truly, By the way CLXV is old Roman numeral for 165, Hope you enjoy this post as I.
The 15 Spanish World Heritage cities most visited in 2024, has as the most visited Toledo, which has led the list with 30% of tours reserves managed by the Guruwalk platform., Most visitors have been Spanish, representing 64%. It was follow by Santiago de Compostela and Córdoba ,second and third place, attracting more than 15% of visitors. In the fourth and fifth place, Salamanca and Segovia , the list of the most visited cities is completed with Cáceres, Tarragona, Úbeda, Baeza, Cuenca, Mérida, Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, San Cristóbal de la Laguna and Ibiza, Although Spanish tourists are majority, travelers from Germany, Italy, Mexico, Colombia and the United Kingdom have also shown a great interest in discovering the cultural heritage of these cities, Glad they did !
The inmensively wonderful Reina Sofía Museum is going more feminist, more emerging and more Spanish in the new season 2024/2025 of exhibitions with a look: more women and more emerging (young) artists with a greater look at the Spanish ,and ,also in both cases More artists who nourish us from other geographical areas such as the African and Latin American are also reinforced with greater interest in the artists of the late 19C and early 20C in all it will be nine expositions that will start with a retrospective of Soledad Sevilla , Velázquez Award in 2020. She will be followed by a thematic exhibition dedicated to the aging and all his aesthetic revolution, for everything that happened at the beginning of the 20C but with a different look than the usual of the typical avant -garde. Over there, in the thread of the Iberian ring of Valle-Inclán, a good number of Spanish artists of the time will appear-a absence that was sometimes criticized , such as Eugenio Lucas or José Guillermo Solana. More conceptual will be “in the moved air” curated by the philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman and that taking the verse of Lorca will investigate in the elf with works by Rodin, Giacometti, Dalí and Michaux and a lot of incursion in notions of psychoanalysis. Again those beginnings of the 20C, a great retrospective of the Canarian Néstor Martín-Fernández, who dedicated himself to painting and theatrical scene and that is forgotten once he leaves the Canary Islands. He was a painter who traveled by modernism, decadentism and symbolism with a criticism of the most famous -isms of the avant -garde beyond the exhibitions, the presence of the canvas of Almada Negreiros, self -portrait in a group (1925) , considered a masterpiece of the Portuguese avant -garde and that will be in Reina Sofía from October 2024 to January 2025. It is an exchange that has been made with Portugal, where the El abrazo( hug ) has stopped, by Juan Genoese.This painting will be in the living room to Guernica, next to a world, by Ángeles Marco, and appears in a window, of Dalí. By 2026 the fourth floor will be presented, where the entire collection will go from the eighties to the present ; in 2027 the third floor will arrive with works between the 40s and 70s, and in 2028 the second with the rest of the works. It is intended that at no time during the reorganization the Guernica room is closed, which is the fundamental dish of this museum. On the other hand, at the moment its three venues (main Museum, Velázquez Palace and Cristal Palace) meet different rehabilitation works and that it is expected to end in June 2027 in the coming months, in addition, they will be restored The facades of the Sabatini and Nouvel buildings and the access to the Nouvel courtyard and the entrance to the Velázquez Palace will be improved. Webpage : https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en
The José en el pozo or José in the well, and ‘La túnica de José’ or the tunic of José’, which are part of the heritage of the Santa Capilla de San Andrés or Holy Chapel of San Andrés of Jaén, are the titles of the two paintings whose authorship is attributed to two painters from the court of Felipe IV and that are related to the noble collecting of the time. These two oils have now exposed themselves in the Espacio La Rural, or the rural space, at the headquarters of the Caja Rural de Jaén , after a thorough restoration process that has served to recover a heritage from which there is a record of their donation to Jaén in the year 1785, Webpage : https://www.fundacioncrj.es/
The Metro de Madrid museums, spaces that offer the possibility of enjoying the cultural wealth and secrets that keep this means of transport that has almost 300 km of network ; have created a free passport to travel all the points of interest of which one is delivered per family unit and that can be acquired at the Chamberí station, the Nave de Motores, and in the historical trains of Chamartín. Those who want to make a trip to the past and more specifically to Madrid of the 50’s that belongs to the first line of metros opened in Chamartin in 1919 , The station counted with 7 stops which included Cuatro Caminos, Rio Rosas, Martínez Campos, Bilbao, Corte, Gran Vía and Sol. It was in the early 60s when the Metropolitan Company decided to increase the length of the trains, but since this station could not lengthen It had to be closed. Located in Pacifico station is the great engines, a space that includes three diesel engines and the rest of the machinery that long ago served to generate and transform the energy with which trains worked. This complex was built between 1922 and 1923 and became the ship of greatest power installed in Spain, but ended up being obsolete leading to its total closure in 1972. Pacifico’s lobby, one of the most beautiful in the network, has rectangular plant with strong machines that divide them into three sections and three vaults more lying with smaller fireflies in their centers. Original from 1923, the year in which this station was inaugurated with the prolongation of Atocha to Puente de Vallecas, only had a single access from the then Calle Pacifico, today Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona corner to the Calle de la Caridad. With the expansion of platforms projected in 1961, new lobby were opened by closing the original that ended up being restored to be included in the suburban museums of Madrid. The busy Chamartín station has an interesting exhibition of trains, opened by Felipe VI, which has 12 historical cars, including the first ones that circulated a century ago along line 1, and about 100 historical pieces of the suburban . In the Opera station is the largest archaeological museum under land in Madrid. This 200 -square -meter space hosts the remains dated between the 16C and 17C Fuente de los Caños del Peral, Acueducto de Amaniel that is born in the today Dehesa de la Villa, and provided water to the Palacio Real ,and the Alcantarilla del Arenal. In the station of Line 6 of Carpetana during the remodeling works, paleontological remains with valuable findings of the Miocene were discovered. To bring premises and tourists closer to this great finding, two vertical deposits were created, At Tirso de Molina‘s station dates from 1921, which makes it the oldest artistic manifestation that is preserved from the network. This space presents a white and blue tile ceiling framed by some borders with decorative motifs, as well as a bronze shield made in bronze on a mosaic. The most prominent artistic element of the central Gran Vía station is the tempering of the architect Antonio Palacios, which served as access to the old station. Since 2021 a replica of it welcomes travelers between Calle Montera and Gran Vía with a marquee built with fully translucent glass and steel and a half -point arc with a city shield craft artisanally in stone. Once inside, you can also see the museum that collects the archaeological remains discovered during the station’s expansion works, as well as a ceramic mural in the lobby that represents the original temple. Sublime my dear Madrid, Webpage: https://museosmetromadrid.es/
The deterioration reaches the average and long distance trips of Renfe: one in four are slower this year, the large cities, especially Madrid, absorb the benefits of the current rail system.The current rail network about Madrid closer to all of Spain, but the rest of Spain is still far from being connected to each other. Madrid has direct rail connection, high speed or conventional network, with all peninsular capitals except Teruel. 35 of them take less than four hours from the center of the country, The second best connected city, Barcelona, is very distance in connection quality: direct train with just over half of the capitals, 29, and only nine of them are less than four hours from the peninsular northeast end. Of course, this needs to be developed but typical of every country concentrating in major cities…..
Leaving behind the Aqueduct of Segovia, climbs on Calle San Juan and enters a historical residence in this Castilian city, the Casa de la Cadenas or house of the chains. The house belonged to Andrés Cabrera, Marqués de Moya, butler of Enrique IV and the Catholic Monarchs, and his wife, Beatriz de Bobadilla, perhaps the best friend of Queen Isabel I la Catolica (Elizabeth, the Catholic) , who granted them the title of Counts of Chinchón. They were mayor of the Alcázar, and the influence of this lady in the Queen was so great that in the town it was said that “after the queen of Castile, La Bobadilla.” This house, which stands next to the place where the Puerta de San Juan, one of the access roads to the city until it was destroyed in 1888, is part of the tourist route that follows in the footsteps of Isabel la Católica in Segovia, a decisive city in her life. In the Church of San Miguel, she was proclaimed Queen on December 13, 1474, three days after the death of her brother Enrique IV in Madrid. This year the 550th anniversary of the proclamation is celebrated with a succession of activities that began in May and will end in December ,2024 although the central events will be October 4, 5 and 6, including a historical recreation planned for day 5. The Casa de las Cadenas is currently owned by Julia Escorial, who acquired it in the 1950’s. In recent years it has been used on other occasions for different shootings. The interior can now be seen in the second chapter of ‘Rapa’, in some sequences shot from September 28, 2023. The house has the entrance from the old Plaza de San Pablo, current Plaza del Conde de Ceste, under an arc of adovered granite; Through the hallway, the rooms adapted to family housing are accessed on its three levels, it retains the character of fortified house on the wall, with three towers in the corners of different configuration and constructive technique, which had a function of surveillance and defense, both for the house and for the city door located in the slope of San Juan in reality, the house was the counterpoint, within the defensive system of the city, of the Alcazar, Webpage info : https://www.turismocastillayleon.com/en/heritage-culture/stately-homes/house-cadenas
The official celebration of the 550 anniversary of crowning of Isabel I : https://proclamacionreinaisabel.es/
The Feria de Otoño or Autumn Fair has pulverized the record of the subscription of the Plaza de las Ventas of Madrid of the last 15 years with a figure of 18,229 subscribers ! if before the summer the influx of public placed the San Isidro Fair at the summit of the influx of the last decade with almost 600,000 spectators-, the Autumn Fair has done quite well , a record ! The Plaza de Las Ventas has been a pioneer to reverse the situation, place the bullfight in social focus and, above all, in youth. You have to underline the name of Enrique Ponce , a bullfighter for the story who wanted to say goodbye to Madrid and, in addition, lending to all the promotional acts that we have proposed. He is the protagonist of the posters. Every afternoon it has an incentive. Roca Rey closes campaign in Las Ventas, Miguel Ángel Perera and Emilio de Justo face Borja Jiménez and Fernando Adrián Saturday, September 28, 2024 at.18h Bulls by Juan Pedro Domecq and Garcigrande for Enrique Ponce (in his farewell), David Galván and Samuel Navalón (confirmation). The programming follows on Sunday, September 29.Thursday, October 3. Friday, October 4. Saturday, October 5. Sunday, October 6. Saturday, October 12. all at 18h with various bullfighters, awesome!!! Official Las Ventas : https://www.las-ventas.com/actualidad/otono2024
The Red Nacional de Pueblos Acogedores (RNPA ) or National Network of Cozy Peoples , A platform of small rural towns connected to each other to promote the development of professional and holiday stays of travelers, those seeking the advantages of this type of environments to spend a certain period, either short, medium Or long, from León to Salamanca, Seville, Navarra, Guadalajara or Gran Canaria, a list of 43 villages so far bet on the union of common interests.We love it , more info webpage: h
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The albergue Orisson or Orisson shelter is 7.5 km from Saint Jean Pied de Port , the last French town of the Jacobean route, from where Roncesvalles is headed, the first town of the Camino de Santiago
in Spain, This is the first stage of the road of Santiago for the so-called Napoleon Route, who chooses the French side can start at the Pilgrims Office of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, a town crossed by a cobblestone
rue d‘Espagne street that step on hundreds or thousands of people every day. According to a legend, this town was created in the 7C, although the first written references of the name are subsequent, of the 12C. It was a strong square, city-front and-it is being-a historical stage in the pilgrimage to
Santiago de Compostela. The first effort is demanding, by ramps that lead the pilgrims from the comfort of the 180 meters of altitude in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to the Bentarte peak (1,337 m), Lepoeder (1,430 meters, the roof of the zone) and the port of Ibañeta , to the goal in Roncesvalles (24 km in total). The first shelter on that route (beyond those in the town of the exit) is the Ferme Ithurburia , in Huntto, 4 km or little more to start walking. The second, the Orisson shelter, at 810 m altitude, is a reference among many pilgrims. Those who arrive by car, (as we did) on the other hand, can stop to eat or take a snack on a spectacular terrace with impressive views of the mountains, renovated in the winter of 2019. Only a while there compensates for the stop and helps to reflect on life . The road continues on the steep road. On the left, already at 1,095 meters of altitude, there is the size of theVirgin of Biakorri with the Child Jesus in the arms, protector of shepherds. A little later, 1,200 m, there is the cross of Thibult, where many pilgrims leave offers and ex -votos. This cross marks the beginning of a path that goes to Bentarte
peak. The highest point of this stage will still be crowning, the Lepoeder peak. Awesome either way you come this way, The official Albergue Orisson : https://www.refuge-orisson.com/en/presentation
There you go folks, another dandy tour of my dear Spain. It is time to enjoy my some news from Spain once again, Remember, Spain is everything under the Sun ! Again, hope you enjoy the post as I.
And remember ,happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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