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Archive for February, 2011

Medieval market: (14th -16th September) annual market located in the Plaza del Coso Viejo set in the Middle Ages. Christ Procession of Health and Water: afternoon on the last Saturday of April each year begins the cults of the Holy Christ of Health and Water, Patron of the city. That day is the day when the transfer takes place from the chapel of Lord, to the high altar, in what is   Read More ...

Spanish Events

Charming and tranquil by day and cool and sultry by night, San Sebastian or Donostia in Basque, is everything Bilbao is not and it is next to impossible not to fall in love with it. Summer at the beach is the best of times and Playa de la Concha is as good as any city beach in all of Europe. Lest we forget Playa de Gros full of surfers and   Read More ...

Holidays in Spain

The Spanish owned island of Lanzarote witnessed a decent growth in tourist numbers last year as key markets such as the UK returned to a degree of normalcy after the economic turmoil of 2009. And the outlook for this year is even brighter – as the island benefits from an upsurge of tourists displaced by the current crisis in the Middle East. The British are the largest tourist group by   Read More ...

Lanzarote

Designed by the great Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi, Sagrada Familia is a church in Barcelona that saw construction start in 1882 and will see the construction, if all goes according to plan, end in 2026. Being a very religious man, it was important for him to build the church and late in his life he work exclusively on its construction, moving onto the construction site and living there. Upon his   Read More ...

Barcelona

The ideal Summer destination is Benidorm, if you are anywhere from eighteen to thirty. Benidorm, mainland Spain’s party centre, is situated forty-five minutes by car from the airport in Alicante, on the Northern Costa Blanca. Depending on what kind of time you want to spend, you will either like Benidorm or Calpe and Altea. Benidorm is the perfect place to party all night long and sleep on the beach all   Read More ...

Holidays in Spain