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Barcelona (15)
The Spanish beaches often have chiringuitos, a generic name for food and beverages establishments on the sand. Their shape is varied: in Barcelona these are unified design concessions.
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Barcelona (16)
Diagonal Mar is the area in which the Diagonal arrives to the seashore by the Besos mouth. The Forum 2004 has left a space with a large retail, office and high end residence real estate basis.
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Biblio (41) The Odyssey
Ithaca nowadays, in a Landsat Image. You can see it in http://landsatlook.usgs.gov/ , northeast from Kefalonia, south of Corfu (a direct link would be against the spirit of the book). And I’m not sure...
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Tourism spaces (4b)
View Larger Map A tourism experience can be inseparable from a location or reproducible in any place, and this later condition can still imply a relation with space, or more precisely, the way in which...
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Tourism space (4c)
View Larger MapBeing alive is an experience, so keeping alive should also count as such. What is known as medical tourism is something quite different from what is usually thought of as tourism; the...
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Tourism space (4d)
Space travel: that must be an experience for your money. The space into a capsule must be quite narrow, but there is a sci-fi feeling in Spaceport America, a project by Norman Foster’s team.
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Tourism space (4e)
I must acknowledge that for this last week I have somehow forced what some experts would consider experiential tourism. The Spanish Ministry for Industry, Energy and Tourism, in partnership with the...
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A saturday afternoon in Madrid
The Sky as seen from the A3 (Valencia freeway) looking towards the urban core. After some rainy days, yesterday there was a nice afternoon, and the urban core was full of people cellebrating the King’s...
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How many tourists are here today?
Counting umbrellas on the sand is far from being a tested methodology… Sure, there is a little trap in the question: in statistical terms, in Spain a tourist is a person that moves from his usual home...
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Tórtoles
Aerial view of Tórtoles, by Ricardo Melgar on Panoramio. His collection of images of Castille is simply excellent. Tórtoles de Esgueva is a small village in Ribera del Duero (Burgos province, Spain),...
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Biblio (79) The Phototeque of the Spanish Historical Heritage
The Ministry for Education, Culture and Sports hosts this interesting resource on the internet. It is curious to see on the heading image the “Thorns Crown”, a work by Higueras in the Ciudad...
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Unexpected meetings (7)
To be honest, the title here is not entirely accurate: I knew about the landscape interest of Gata (Cáceres, Spain), and in fact I was in a visit preceded by a quite complete briefing. The unexpected...
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Maps 2014 (13) Walk NYC
Here is a map that (apparently) can only be consulted in the streets of New York. The classical pedestrian map, that lets you find your way, has been subject to an interesting approach in the American...
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Things I saw while on break
The Danube near Vienna, as seen from Khalenberg Hill For those that have followed this blog during the last years, here is the proof it has not disappeared. Just a small fraction of that time was a...
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