Europe

From Seville to North Cape, from Bruges to Saint Petersburg. Europe is a magical continent and in this section we are going to explore all its corners. Europe in your hands.

174 articles

Escalona: reunion with the Lazarillo de Tormes

If there is a long outstanding debt is to visit the scenes of the books that marked my childhood. So I was in the main square of Escalona, Lazarillo de Tormes where the land put through with the blind after he served a cruel trick.

byRicardo Coarasa

8 March, 2012

Coimbra: the walls of letters

The University is like if you observe any, with the city at the foot, to warn residents that are here one after the run. Then, among its narrow streets and steep, the city speaks in its walls filled with messages of rebellion, the default of thinking before he decided to be.

byJavier Brandoli

6 March, 2012

Black Garmo: the 3.000 Express

The attraction of the mountain is sometimes so strong that neither know nor want to avoid. I had uploaded other times Garmo Black, but never alone. Not that I want to live that experience, simply could not find anyone to accompany me.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 March, 2012

A route through the charming towns of Segovia

Historical towns that retain a spectacular heritage and delicious cuisine. A simple route, easy to do to spend a day or a weekend, in a rural Spain to discover which preserves its past. Enjoy a path of the senses.

byJavier Brandoli

14 February, 2012

Europe

Finisterre has Jerusalén: memory is the way

If the weather and the authority did not prevent, next 4 March initiate in a pilgrimage Finisterre lighthouse-adventure 7.000 kilometers that will take me to the holy city of Jerusalem through 15 countries in order to go small telling human stories related to Alzheimer's, German thief that bloody memories

byContributors

4 February, 2012

Florence: lost in the night

That's when you find the sound of your steps solitary narrow cobbled streets. As is, There are even some places where there seems to echo. Curious feeling of walking back to the hotel tired with the constant desire to lose again.

byJavier Brandoli

24 January, 2012

Sintra: romance with emergency exit

Do not expect anything from a site has a distinct advantage: your ability to surprise is infinite. I expected little more from my visit to Sintra, upon arrival, rain broke with a crash. The outcome could only improve.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 January, 2012

The oldest doll hospital in Europe

It's the closest I've been a dream factory. Brokedown Palace, convalescent, in the ICU some, but dreams at the end of the day. Here are responsible for recovering their magic, to burnish, of return haloed with the same enthusiasm for the first time. A unique place it, only. It is the oldest doll hospital in Europe, almost two centuries behind, but for most tourists are walking around Lisbon probably go unnoticed.

byRicardo Coarasa

28 November, 2011

Berna: five centuries of imprisonment for the bears

(...) Is 1513 when the soldiers come home victors of the Battle of Novara carrying a live bear as a trophy. We decide to build an animal enclosure, a pit before the central door (...) French General Brune humiliated in 1798 to the Bernese after taking the city and take all the animals to Paris.

byJavier Brandoli

12 Oct., 2011

Narva: Lenin statue forgotten

Narva is the name of a city estonia. Is, also, the river from the early Middle Ages has delineated the border between Russia and Estonia accessible in the Gulf of Finland. Two castles, on either side, emerge as stone sentinels wary.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 September, 2011

Rhineland-Palatinate: stone sentinels of the Rhine

Following the course of the Rhine is to cross over the waters of Europe's history. A flow may be the best road we understand the past of a region. In this case, the route leaves you speechless. The castles and fortresses are happening before our eyes. The river is just a spectator.

byJavier Brandoli

7 September, 2011

Bosnia: when the bullets are souvenirs

(...) Going from Split, the territory is mostly Bosnian Croat. At the pump allowed the Kuna, Croatian currency, and sell alcohol and pornography. Bosnia does not have its own currency, works with euro. There are many churches. May not devotion but political. Like the minarets, crosses are flags ...

byMiquel Silvestre

29 August, 2011

Tuscany: the secret of Chianti Route

Florence, Siena, Pisa .... There are few places in the world with more beauty accumulated Tuscany. Art history and overwhelming that this time the mix with the allure of Chianti Route. Small towns, medieval aspect, scattered around a small road through Tuscany. Good restaurants and good hotels to go to one of our favorite routes.

byJavier Brandoli

11 August, 2011

Prague: of ring of Kafka

It was both his prison and inspiration. Of the atmosphere oprimía, but also gave vent to his literary talent. Praga y Kafka. Kafka y Praga. No means the one without the other. Its streets are the ring where the tormented writer himself settled accounts in search of a reason to redeem the absurdity of existence.

byRicardo Coarasa

4 August, 2011

Normandy: the footprints of the «Longest Day»

The beaches of Normandy are a fascinating trail of war who has lived most cruel man. Between sand, museums, churches and cliffs can discover everything that happened 6 June 1944 in which the sea dawned with a date with history.

byJavier Brandoli

1 August, 2011

Europe

Ithaca: in the homeland of Ulysses

It seems a whim of the gods, strangled by anger of Poseidon or Zeus himself the ray. Its shape is rebellious and field, abrupt. But, transmits calmness and serenity. Ithaca, the homeland of Odysseus, breathe under a blue sky and sea embracing lives, the Ionian Sea, the sea in Greece.

byContributors

30 July, 2011

London: Churchill's cave

The Cabinet War Rooms were commissioned in June 1938, transforming a former underground storage to 10 meters deep in a bunker against bombing. The visit may be the facilities as they were after the war ended in June 1945. Some areas that can be visited are the rooms of the Churchill, control rooms or PBX.

byEduardo De Winter

28 June, 2011

Istanbul: tea among the graves on the hill of Eyüp

Istanbul is a city without parallel, with countless reasons to visit. With one foot in Asia and one in Europe, is full of tourist postcards. But without detracting from its popular mosques and the Grand Bazaar, my predilections point in another direction: the Asian district of Uskudar and Eyüp Cemetery.

byRicardo Coarasa

23 June, 2011

Isla de Skye: Coral Beach

The road shows a wild, understood the green pastures wild Scottish twist on the hills; jump rivers among the rocks; the cliffs that seem made of marble; the persistent rain that seems to sprout from the ground

byJavier Brandoli

22 June, 2011

Nantes: between Jules Verne and Anne of Brittany

My weakness is Anne of Brittany, perhaps because the first time I met her figure was in the fascinating city of Saint Malo, only place I know where he built a wall to protect themselves from bullies people living within, not possible attacks from outsiders

byJavier Brandoli

14 June, 2011

Albania: Surrealism in the last European frontier

Came to several dead villages. Sunken roof, crumbling shacks, mangy and sickly dogs. Some human beings are moved between the stones as survivors of a bombing.

byMiquel Silvestre

8 April, 2011

Highgate: forgotten cemetery Karl Marx

On a hill, Victorian graves surrounded by other illustrious neighbors, lies the body of Karl Marx. In Highgate Cemetery, in London, a place of magic. Dense vegetation between sculpture and a bust tombs under which you read a historical phrase: "Trabajadores del mundo uniros".

byJavier Brandoli

1 March, 2011

Jaffa: Sea Mosque

Founded as the Bible by Japheth, one of the sons of Noah, after the Flood, have gained from the pharaohs to the mythical Persian King David, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart "Napoleon. It Jaffa, the old city of Tel Aviv, one of the oldest ports in the world, boosting the minaret of the mosque of the sea on the vast blue of the Mediterranean.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 February, 2011

Lausanne: Zeus has the Dream Team

The sneakers with Jesse Owen humbled Hitler; revive the basketball final in Los Angeles 84; Eric Moussambani bathing suit ... All exciting sports history, from classical Greece, is in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

byJavier Brandoli

5 January, 2011

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10