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Mónica Boixeda
Hungary is known worldwide for its museums and if you´re a tourist who loves these types of places and you´re in Budapest, the Hungarian National Museum is a place that you must visit. This museum possesses the first and most important collection in the country and, for that reason, it´s visited by millions of people every year and it´s the most important in the whole of Hungary. The place is located in a building that is a monument in itself and was inaugurated in 1846, as well as being one of the most beautiful of the Great Avenue. The Hungarian National Museum possesses 7 permanent exhibitions and it presents in its galleries the history of the country form its foundation until the 1990s. There are objects and paintings that make reference to the Middle Ages although it´s also dedicated to Modern and Contemporary History. Those tourists who arrive in Budapest and want to visit a museum they will undoubtedly have to visit the galleries of the Hungarian National Museum because it´s the most important one in which, through different works and objects, they will get to know the history of the country. You can rent apartments in Budapest and not let this chance...
Mónica Boixeda
The Tower of the Plaza de Benifayó is a war construction in the city of Valencia. Together with other towers they constitute the defensive cordon of the city that was active between the 11th and 13th century. Being big, it measures 11 metres on each side and a total of 23 metres in height with four floors, this tower had different uses like a warehouse, a refuge for the fighers and it was also a prison. Another interesting thing about the construction of this tower is that its walls are 1,30m thick because, being a fortress, they had to be safe and protecting. Today it´s just a national monument that has to be visited by the tourists that come to Spain and to the region of Valencia because it´s considered as one of the tallest and most symbolic buildings in the Spanish city. The Tower currently finds itself united with the palace of the Barons of Benifayó and, together, they represent what used to be the baronial fortress. Visiting this tower takes us back to the past and it´s a tourist site of great cultural interest in the city. Rent apartments in Valencia and discover...
Mónica Boixeda
Patio de Silos is a famous place in Valencia where one can find great tapas distributed in a square made of cement. It´s atypical and for that the tourist who go and see it, like it. The story is a very beautiful one and it dates from the 16th century when Valencia and other regions of Spain suffered from low supply of wheat. They then decided to import great quantities of the cereal from Sicily but the problem was where to keep the thousands of tons that came in the ships. For this, they ordered to build varios silos in the city and today they are part of the most attractive tourist attractions in Valencia. What you can see of these silos, which are dug underground, are their heavy cement lids. In the city there are 41 silos, although there would have been many more back then. This way the governors took care of the people of Valencia and didn´t let them starve, having a lot of wheat and at a good price. Since 1931 these constructions don´t have the role that they used to and are only part of the old architecture of the city. If you want to get to know them and take a picture with them, rent apartments in Valencia and enjoy the beautiful Spanish...
Mónica Boixeda
Not only does it possess the function of maintaining the existence of our species in the world – but it is also an enormous part of our lives, in terms of pleasure, motivation and satisfaction – there is no question that sex is important, and art has been one of the things to help us realise this through time. In the case of literature, there are many works which approach the erotic and sexual wonderfully, reaching impressive new heights each time. Such is the case with “Los cuadernos de Don Rigoberto” (“The Paintings of Don Rigoberto“) by Mario Vargas Llosa (winner of Nobel Prize for Literature 2010) – the authors second sexually themed novel (the first was Elogio de la Madrastra), presenting an exciting, intriguing fusion of sex, art, fiction and reality. Don Rigoberto, an ordinary, everyman in his 50s, fights the monotony of his life with his imagination. He is the protagonist of the novel, and the subject of its erotic fantasies – like that in the second chapter of the book, when we see Lucrecia, his wife, in bed, naked, excited and spreading honey on herself – to later release the kittens that Rigoberto has given her, and letting them follow their senses. There´s another person who creates tension in the novel – a young man who takes sex to its limits; to the very borderline of the morally acceptable. He is called Fonchito, and is the teenage son of Don Rigoberto, and step-son to Lucrecia – a slim, intelligent man who awakens Lucrecia´s sexuality with his games (she is after his step-mother – if she was...
Mónica Boixeda
The Torres de Quart, like many other towers in Valencia, were part of the wall that protected the city in medieval times. Today they´re part of the city´s monuments and they add to the beautiful and ancient landscape that you can still see in Spain. They were built in the 15th century and were standing until the War of Independence. Today you can still see in its walls the scars of the bombs, that show that they were a resistant and powerful building of late-Gothic style. They are National Monuments and National Historical Sites and, every day, thousands of people visit them and take a photo with them. Their name comes from the people who walked past them who were from Castille and who were going to the town of Cuart de Poblet, simple as that. It was also called Puerta de Cal because of the material that the big towers were made of (lime), but this term isn´t used anymore. If you too want to get to know these beautiful ancient towers that have history remains on their walls, rent apartments in Valencia and with a map of the city at hand, go and see its beautiful streets that are full of...
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