[This article continues from "Wine routes in La Rioja (I)"]
Route 2: Monasteries and passion for the wine
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January 2010
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Madrid, the capital city of Spain, is a cosmopolitan city which combines the most recent infrastructures and its privileged condition as an economical, financial, administrative and service provider centre with an amazing cultural and artistic heritage, considered as a bequest of centuries endowed with a passionate history.
Some of the places that we always consider as picturesque and very nice are the regions that form the so-called Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun). Where many of them hide their Andalusian charm and have been able to nobly avoid the hasty development that has wrapped the Iberian peninsula up in the last decades.
The Pyrenees, the huge mountainous mountain range to the north that separates Spain from the rest of Europe, is a fascinating territory due to its nature. 450 kilometers from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean, this is a natural border in which the water, forests and valleys prevail. So the Pyrenees are a synonym of adventure.
El Prado is one of the best museums all over the world
This art gallery from Madrid has the most complete collection of Spanish paintings from the 11th
Rioja is a synonym of wine. This guarantee of origin is spread all over the 54.000 hectares in three different Autonomous Regions (La Rioja, The Basque Country and Navarra). Wines from Rioja are the best-sellers all over Spain and their deeply-rooted tradition acts as guarantor for them.
Around those wine routes in Rioja, we can find amazing wine museums, welcoming hotels and rural houses, some of the most emblematic cellars of the country, popular celebrations concerning wines, as well as antique monuments worth to be visited. Definitively, the wine tourism in the DOC Rioja evidences a never-seen-before development.
Flamenco lessons, tapas and paella in El Corral de la Morería
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Located in the old part of the capital city, just a few meters from the Palacio Real (literally meaning Royal Palace) and the Almudena Cathedral, this flamenco show known as tablao is considered as the Cathedral of the Flamenco Art. And it’s not only our opinion, but that of the Festival del Cante de Las Minas which declared the Corral de la Morería of International Touristic Attraction giving to it the special Prize 2006 to the best “Tablao” Flamenco of the world.
Today we will deal with a very popular and regional event, well-known as Fira de Sant Andreu, a fair with a more than six centuries old history which takes place annually, when November ends, in a Spanish province known as Castellon.
The fair began on May 6, 1398 by means of a privilege that was granted to Saragossa by the King Martín I. Since then, and year after year, it is celebrated on a place where the presence of all kinds of artists, craftsmen and theatrical and musical representations bring the cities of the region to life.
In this opportunity we wanted to disappear for a few days, to escape from daily routines, from housework and the duties of our job. Our escape had to be to a place where nobody could find us, but not very far for being a short trip.
So it occurred to us to travel to an island known as Tenerife, an ideal place with beautiful coasts and huge mountains that were in a unique and special contrast with. For that reason, and without telling anybody about the adventure we were planning then, we pay online our fares and also the hotel reservation directly from a webpage.
The necro-tourism is still in and right now is Barcelona’s turn, a place where this year, there have been approximately 5.700 people who have followed a guided route across the cemetery of Poblenou or the historical-artistic combination that the Cemetery of Montjuic hosts, according to some information provided by the Cementiris de Barcelona company, which wants to dig a hollow for itself in the niche (it couldn’t have been said in a better way) related to whatever the city has to offer tourists.
