Ghent's main merit, that the traveler perceives as soon as he accumulates a few hours of walking on his feet, is to have overcome the temptation to become absorbed in its rich medieval past, languishing petrified in the meanders of its history.
Anyone who comes here to walk its cobbled streets soon receive sensitivity of a municipality that has the heroes not politicians or generals, but to a watchmaker, poet, a painter and a blacksmith.
Trace the Bosphorus to the Black Sea is browse history. De Eminönü, next to the Galata Bridge and close to the unmistakable New Mosque, departs daily ferry that makes the crossing to Anadolu Kavagi.
Bruges is a city used to looking in the mirror. Otherwise it is unthinkable that it has been able to preserve intact that medieval beauty that made it one of the nerve centers of commerce in old Europe..
Adorning facades of historic buildings, chiselled spectacular fireplaces, rooted in popular celebrations, admirable and portrayed in stained glass, even, brands of beer. Belgium has not forgotten Carlos V.
"Today David Bowie died and then I entered this cafe full of sun and empty of people and at a few decibels exactly conducive to my purring soul at the window table, right in front of the sun, and on the other side the sea, sonó The man who sold the world".
"Guadarrama. National Park", by Eduardo Martínez de Pisón and with photographs by Javier Sánchez, It is a geographical and sentimental x-ray of the Madrid mountains