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13758621297?profile=RESIZE_710xJosé Balido

 

In 2021, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation) honoured Spain´s capital with its first World Heritage Site designation, elevating Madrid to the ranks of destinations with districts or monuments worth preserving for future generations (the larger Madrid community surrounding the capital already had UNESCO sites, including the royal sites of El Escorial and Aranjuez, which make marvelous day trips).

The city´s leafy Paseo del Prado boulevard,

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I've always had a fascinating for things mediaeval. Would never want to have actually lived back in the Middle Ages, mind you. But the architecture and atmosphere of the Romanesque and the Gothic have always captivated me. And while my adopted country provides more than enough to delight me on this front year after year, I've been enjoying my home town Madrid more for its marvelous architecture and monuments dating from the mid-16th century onward

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4 Delightful Day Trips from Madrid

13754418662?profile=RESIZE_710xSantiago López-Pastor

 

Spain's capital is of course magnificent and brimming with amazing stuff to see and do. But visitors should also make time for a daytrip (or if at all possible, and overnighter) to at least one of the marvelous destinations in the Madrid Community no more than an hour outside the city proper, full of history, culture, architectural gems of their own.   

Alcalá de Henares 

Its streets lined with majestic buildings and its rooftops full of stork nests, this city of 194,000

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Welcome once again to Pride month, celebrated in increasing numbers of destinations around the world - although also under pressure in some of them, sadly even including part of the United States, the very country where the celebration of Pride originated. Of course, depending on where you go, travelling while LGBT+ can be a challenge, particularly if you're with a same-sex partner and/or if you are visibly queer. Sadly, there are still many countries where being gay is still consider

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11018875452?profile=RESIZE_930xJosé Balido


 

Congratulations are in order! UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has just this summer honored Spain's capital city with its first World Heritage Site designation, elevating Madrid to the ranks of destinations with districts or monuments worth preserving for future generations (the larger Madrid community surrounding the capital already had UNESCO sites, including the royal complexes of El Escorial and Aranjuez, which make marvelous day

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Being one of Spain’s largest cities, Valencia offers an unique combination of the Cosmopolitan experience, warm and welcoming sun along with plenty of other fantastic options to chose from and many activities to do and thus making it pretty difficult for any traveler to make a proper itinerary when visiting this city.

Looking transfer services in Valencia is a must do, especially for those visitors that come from far places and could not bring their own family car or personal vehicle; transfer Va

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You spent the whole year sitting at your desk, locked in the office, contracted and covered by mountains of papers. The moment you finally decide to go on vacation to avoid exploding under pressure or suffering an anxiety attack, you imagine lying in a hotel, doing absolutely nothing, ordering room service. The first day of your stay you feel in paradise, but from the second day onwards you walk the walls and think that there is no point in having travelled all the way to a beautiful city to be

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5 Madrid Musts

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In its central area, Spain''s capital has many characteristics that make it stand out among other important cities, which by 2012 made it the thirty-first city most visited worldwide by international tourists, nothing more and nothing less than 4.1 million.


All that there is to see in Madrid, everything that this beautiful city offers to its visitors, you will know it because we will talk about five more important sites that you should visit in Madrid. This city, capital of Spain, has an exce

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