Guimaraes: journey into the bowels of Portugal
If you only have one day my advice is to start at the castle to continue to fall after the hill toward the palace of the Dukes of Braganza and the old town, leaving the end Mount Penha.
Europe
De Sevilla a Cabo Norte, de Brujas a San Petersburgo. Europa es un continente mágico y en esta sección vamos a recorrer todos sus rincones. Europa en tus manos.
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Pasolini's Rome: the city that tourists don't go to
These are not human dwellings that line up on the mud, but pens for animals, kennels. Made from rotten planks, chipped walls, plates, waxed fabrics. As a door they often have just a dirty old curtain ....
Postcards in times of Covid (III)
How to name this end of the world, this helplessness of not being able to do anything as humanity collapses.
Postcards in times of Covid (II)
We are no longer lambs waiting for the sacrifice. We no longer wait for mercy to save us. Trust only in the meat, dwellers of the earth.
Return to the land of the angry and depressed
Those were times when he returned to Europe heard people complain about everything. Some told me that they could only play the lottery and I thought they did not know that the most important lottery had already touched: born in Europe.
48 horas en Moscú
Two days in Moscow they only get a small idea of what this city 12 million people, but they are enough to pull down many preconceived ideas
Friendship lessons in a German village
The whole trip was a break stereotypes, from the Germans frolicking on the grass to the cemetery with bicycles and sports, From our sick friend laughing, joking and hugging carefully to the sincere enthusiasm of his family, away from the cloud of sadness Imagined, We tended arms really a joy.
Andenes: looking for whales in the Arctic
From the Norwegian town of Andenes, in the archipelago of Vesteralen, north of the Arctic Circle, boats depart each day follow the trail of the great cetaceans
Pico de la Miel: a photo story
The pictures, sometimes, you flee, but sometimes you stumble upon them accidentally as in the most unexpected moment. That's what happened to us that cold March morning in the Madrid Sierra de la Cabrera.
virtual tourism: the mirage of what “authentic”
I fear that the current tourism has lost interest in the world "real" and attract only that which has the greatest resemblance to what previously visited, or eaten, or drunk ... -.
Anie: Pyramid Circus Lescun
Our destination is the Anie (2.504 meters), a pyramid of rock unmistakable landscape of the French Pyrenean region, but the first figure that draws our attention is the hegemonic presence of the peak Billare.
Eulogy travel guide
The guide can be found, sometimes, traveler. A good guide may depend, sometimes, Pleasure pass to tragedy. I'm not exaggerating.
Twenty streets to enjoy Stockholm on foot
The first thing I did nothing more than set foot in Stockholm, after 18 hours I got on a ferry from Helsinki, It was walking. There we were dragging suitcases up Stadsgardshamnen, savoring the pleasant feeling of knowing a stranger, flirting with the bewilderment of groping a city to discover.
Mesola: the gift of the Holy Innocents
It was the third time in the last six months I was heading towards the same hill, but circumstances, in any case, They were very different. This time it was the day of the Holy Innocents and had already begun the winter.
Lello: the ex most beautiful bookstore in the world
Instead of a bookstore, I came across a theme park, a crowded museum where patrons struggle, as in any tourist claim, before for a photograph than for a book
Recorrido por las iglesias desconsagradas de Nápoles
Estos y muchos otros lugares encerrados en las angostas travesías de Nápoles siguen alimentando las fantasias y las creencias populares desde siglos. Sitios que celan un pasado misterioso e insondable hecho de personajes legendarios, antiguas maldiciones, cerimonias esotéricas, logias masónicas y rituales supersticiosos.
Coimbra: the pyramid of knowledge
There are cities in which one has no doubt where to start. Coimbra is one of them. Its renowned university, elevated on a hill next to the Mondego River, permeates the Portuguese city with knowledge since medieval times.
Mesa de los Tres Reyes: solitude above the clouds
Hearing his name on my curiosity immediately spread the charm of medieval times. They say that up there the kings of Aragon met, Navarre and the French viscount of Béarn to settle their border cuitas.
Mountain races, but not cleaning
I have nothing against racing mountain. It is a way of loving nature far removed from mine, but also respectable. Yes I have a lot against, however, of those who do not respect the mountain or get dirty with impunity.
In debt to Mechelen
We only had two hours to explore the Flemish city of 300 protected monuments. Maybe that's why, Mechelen greeted us with rain. We deserved it, certainly.
Sarajevo route
Sarajevo is even more attractive at night: the bars are full and everywhere you smell the sweet perfume of the hookah and drink the Bosanka Kafa (bosnian coffee) in the fidzani, the cups of turkish origin. Coffee is the national drink in Bosnia: in 1571, one hundred years before London or Paris, Sarajevo was one of the first cities in Europe with premises for the purchase and consumption of coffee.
Munich: rogue soul wanted
Munich has a Cartesian order that makes it very comfortable for the visitor. It is brotherly, open, delicious for a walk and offers a lot of good beer, but one imagines living here and almost who would end up missing that rogue and nightlife profile without which a city always ends up consuming you in its perfection.
Snowshoeing in the moonlight
If at the time when many put pajamas are getting dressed in ski clothes it is that something extraordinary will happen. And what better from Maundy Thursday evening to the mountain to walk with snowshoes under the full moon?
The carrerita Medellin
Virgin is directed towards the image of Jesus in a hurry, with the exultation of one who is reunited with her son three days after his death. It is the popular "Carrerita" Medellin, a tradition that will be repeated next Sunday in the village that gave birth to Hernán Cortés.
