Viator: we have the excellence budget in four of our products! Today Viator has expressed to us that four of our products have been recognized with the excellence budget. These are: Prado Museum tour in English; Prado Museum tour in Spanish; Reina Sofía Private Tour and the Reina Sofía Museum tour in English. On this…
Greco upon Michelangelo: “A man who could not paint” Before Reading: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, “el Greco” (Candía [actual Heraclión], Creta, Venetian Republic, 1541-Toledo, 1614). Developed most of his career in Toledo, where remains a great part of his work. The burial of the Count of Orgaz (placed in Santo Tomé’s Church, Toledo) stands out among his…
Salamanca: house of quite important people Salamanca is a reknowned city in Spain which, maybe because of being under Madrid’s large shadow, is not that famous abroad. Located in the old region of Castilla y León, it was part of the even older Kingdom of León since the fall of Al-Andalus. Miguel de Unamuno If…
Madrid-Seville: How to go and what to expect Madrid-Seville is a popular 500 km trip. As you know, Seville is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, its multiple influences through such a rich history have made Seville a shocking town that is worth a visit, nevertheless, how do you get there? In this…
RAE: an architectonical jewel besides Prado Museum While going into the Prado Museum, there’s always one question: What are those buildings? They mean Saint Jerome Church and RAE. In this article, we’re focusing on the second one. RAE: where it is? The neoclassical area of Madrid RAE (Real Academia de la Lengua, Spanish for Royal…
Civilization VI: people you know, but maybe you don’t remember Civilization VI is the videogame we like the most. Did you know you can win by having a lot of culture? We didn’t, and right now we’re freaking out! Firstly, the videogame shows pretty important characters that we wouldn’t imagine to find in a videogame…
The Council of Trent: nothing unusual, nothing profane, nothing dishonest. When Lutheranism became a reality, the Catholic Church had to react. Pope Paul III called the Council of Trent in 1543 supported by the Emperor Charles V of Germany, I of Spain. In its XXV session, the last one held, images were analyzed and also…
Enma López, Madrid City Councillor: “I love walking around Madrid” With this piece, we open a new section in our website. Usually, when we go abroad, we consult what visitors think about the place we are about to visit. That’s why we thought: What if we ask people we admire what do they like the…
In this article, we are going to discuss the many beauties of a lovely shire in the North-West of Spain: El Bierzo. There are many reasons to consider El Bierzo a very nice place to visit; its rooted history or its natural sites, for instance, but maybe the main one is that the good people…
Egeria: the traveller from El Bierzo you’d love to meet Recently, Spanish journal El País published an article about one of the firsts travel writers who has ever existed: Egeria. She was a peregrine and travelled most of the known world to Jerusalem describing what she saw, where she was comfortable or rather where she…