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…
Madrid-Salamanca, how to get there and what to expect If you’re passing by Madrid, maybe you want to do a little journey to nearby cities. For instance, Salamanca is a very good option, but how can you get to Salamanca? How is the Madrid-Salamanca route? These are the kind of questions we will answer. Príncipe…
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874. She moved to Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century and this is maybe when everything changed for the better. Stein was not only a remarkable writer, but a key person to understand a number of artistic facts during the first third of the last…
The Venetian School: 4 tips to look at it in Prado Museum The Venetian School has a robust influence in everything that happened after. From Rubens to Picasso, there is something Venetian in the way they deal with sensuality or the way they work with the brush. The origin of the so-called Venetian School is…
Today in our blog we take a look on one of the most peculiar forms of art in the 20th Century: Cubist sculpture. When we think about cubism, we are inevitably led to Pablo Picasso’s painting, however, the cubism was not only about painting, nor Picasso was only a painter. We are going to speak…
Picasso is one of the most important artist in the Art History and, of course, a Spanish symbol. As almost every important artist, he also suffered an evolution, that’s the purpose of this post: to discover that evolution across the Reina Sofía Museum. Mujer en azul (Woman in blue) Picasso is going through his blue…
Last Sunday The guides you need organized an outstanding walking tour: Politics in Barrio de los Austrias. Barrio de los Austrias (Habsburg’s Neighborhood) is the oldest part of Madrid that we have reached to conserve, therefore, it’s common to go on a walking tour around this area. Nevertheless, our idea was to show another vision…
