Visitors on the campus of Barcelona’s pioneering Sant Pau Hospital, built at the turn of the 20th century under the direction of architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner, who worked to make the hospital not only beautiful, but functional and safe…
No, not a king’s arboretum, or the Budapest palm house. And not in the Mid-Atlantic region. PortMoresby came closest when she suggested an airport, possibly in southern Spain. It’s actually the main long-distance waiting room of Madrid’s Atocha…
Now a restaurant, this late 19th-century example of Moderniste style was built as a convent for straying young women of Barcelona’s wealthy industrialist class. It’s on Tibidado Avenue, in a neighborhood filled with mansions the young women…
The Cathedral of Seville is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and third-largest church—not only verifiable, it’s the first thing that strikes you on entering.
Seville, the largest city of southern Spain’s Andalucia region, is as full of contrasts as you might imagine of a city that was important in the Roman era, was ruled by the Moors for centuries, and then became not only the seat of Spanish…
Charles V (Carlos to his Spanish subjects and Karl to the subjects of most of the Holy Roman Empire) built this palace in the Alhambra at Granada; he wanted both to show his power and wealth and to put a Christian stamp on the formerly Muslim…
“Spain’s National Archaeological Museum reopens to the public on Tuesday after a massive six-year overhaul…” Read more from ‘The Local’, Spain’s English language online newspaper.
The Byass-Gonzalez winery in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, makers of Tio Pepe, has a very unusual guestbook: distinguished, or at least famous, visitors are asked to autograph wine barrels! When we visited we saw quite a few…Picasso,…
This fearsome fountain sits in a square near the Cathedral, the Alcazar and other centers of traditional power in Seville, but it’s a relatively recent addition. It was built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition. And it’s not alone: Seville’s…
Where do you begin writing about the Alhambra? It’s one of the most famous places in the world, yes. It has a history that is both shorter than one might expect, and more complex. A residence, a fortress, a monument, a museum…no easy description….
Visitors on the campus of Barcelona’s pioneering Sant Pau Hospital, built at the turn of the 20th century under the direction of architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner, who worked to make the hospital not only beautiful, but functional and safe…
No, not a king’s arboretum, or the Budapest palm house. And not in the Mid-Atlantic region. PortMoresby came closest when she suggested an airport, possibly in southern Spain. It’s actually the main long-distance waiting room of Madrid’s Atocha…
Now a restaurant, this late 19th-century example of Moderniste style was built as a convent for straying young women of Barcelona’s wealthy industrialist class. It’s on Tibidado Avenue, in a neighborhood filled with mansions the young women…
The Cathedral of Seville is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and third-largest church—not only verifiable, it’s the first thing that strikes you on entering.
Seville, the largest city of southern Spain’s Andalucia region, is as full of contrasts as you might imagine of a city that was important in the Roman era, was ruled by the Moors for centuries, and then became not only the seat of Spanish…
Charles V (Carlos to his Spanish subjects and Karl to the subjects of most of the Holy Roman Empire) built this palace in the Alhambra at Granada; he wanted both to show his power and wealth and to put a Christian stamp on the formerly Muslim…
“Spain’s National Archaeological Museum reopens to the public on Tuesday after a massive six-year overhaul…” Read more from ‘The Local’, Spain’s English language online newspaper.
The Byass-Gonzalez winery in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, makers of Tio Pepe, has a very unusual guestbook: distinguished, or at least famous, visitors are asked to autograph wine barrels! When we visited we saw quite a few…Picasso,…
This fearsome fountain sits in a square near the Cathedral, the Alcazar and other centers of traditional power in Seville, but it’s a relatively recent addition. It was built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition. And it’s not alone: Seville’s…
Where do you begin writing about the Alhambra? It’s one of the most famous places in the world, yes. It has a history that is both shorter than one might expect, and more complex. A residence, a fortress, a monument, a museum…no easy description….
