Saturday, 30 May 2009 | Views [769]
Madrid is an imperial city, built by royal decree when the
old capital of Toledo, defensive atop a hill and wrapped on three sides by the
Tagus river, was found too polyglot, too constricted, too linked to the
centuries old Moorish presence on ... Read more >
Saturday, 23 May 2009 | Views [632]
To reach the Alhambra, that paradise of fortified palaces and gardens, you walk uphill. First along winding streets and twisted lanes, through an arched stone doorway, and then up a broad path that cuts through trees growing with tropical fury. ... Read more >
Saturday, 16 May 2009 | Views [816]
Andres lives just north of the Gothic Quarter in the 19th Century district of Eixample, or enlargement, that surround the old city of Barcelona. The flat he shares with students from Chile and Argentina is on the roof or sixth floor, though because ... Read more >
Saturday, 2 May 2009 | Views [1775]
Barcelona has its share of tourists. Actually it has the
share of other cities as well, for the crowds that gather around the main Gaudi
monuments – La
Pedrera , the Familia Sagrada , Parc Güell – do so in
numbers that would seem more appropriate ... Read more >
