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Mónica Boixeda
Through food you can also get to know a culture and for that reason, many tourists, at the time of walking through a city, not only do they go to the most important museums but also to the most important restaurants. La Barraca is a traditional Spanish dining room which offers traditional food from the country. In the restaurant you will spend approximately 40 euros which makes it neither an expensive place or a cheap place. If we´re talking about traditional food we can´t not talk about paella and La Barraca is famous in the Spanish capital for being one of the best places that prepares this dish. It was founded in 1935 and, according to many critics, it´s the best place to eat classic Valencian rice dishes and Mediterranean foods from other regions of Spain. In La Barraca you can get served up to 10 different types of rice that can be mixed with meat, vegetables, seafood and more. For this reason if you like traditional food, La Barraca is one of the best places that you can visit in the city. You can rent Madrid accommodation and enjoy the best...
Mónica Boixeda
Taberna La Bola is a restaurant in Madrid which specializes in “cocido” (typical stew from Madrid). Madrid´s cocido is a typical Spanish dish and everyone´s favourite no matter from which social class they come from. Although it´s a dish of mixes, the “Cocido Madrileño” is very tasty and its preparation must be supervised. It´s a stewpot that´s cooked at a low heat, preferently over coal from oak. In the last century, the newspapers of the time said that La Bola was the favourite place of the the people of Madrid, but because they couldn´t mix social classes there, they sold three different types of cocido. At midday they served the cheapest one that didn´t contain any meat. The workers and the employees of the area went to eat then. Later, at 1pm, they served it with chicken and it was the students´ favourite time, although it was a little bit more expensive. And, finally, from 2pm, the best cocido of all was served in La Bola, which contained meat and pork. It was a lot more expensive but the commensals were journalists and senators, people of a much higher purchasing power. But stories like this are abundant in this beautiful restaurant in Madrid that today serves everyone the same dish with no exception. Its menu is varied and there´s a choice for each taste. If you want to get to know how the cocido tastes like in La Bola, rent apartments in Madrid and feel like a Madrileño for the...
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The Plaza Mayor of Madrid is a symbol of the city. There isn´t a tourist who doesn´t visit it and who doesn´t remember it with affection. It´s a beautiful square, very atypical, because it´s surrounded by big buildings. Ordered to be finished in the 17th century by king Felipe III, the square was the headquarters for loads of political, cultural and commercial events since it´s inauguration. There they take place the famous bull and caña (small beer) festivals. The most important buildings that the square houses are the Casa de la Panadería and the Casa Carnicería, two of which are still standing and working actively. There were also royal residencies in the first floors of the buildings. But in 1790 the square caught fire and it lost nearly half of all the constructions. But a few years later they began reconstructing it with reforms to the whole square. For example, they banned traffic, they closed the corners and they remodelled the façades for improvement. Today all tourists can enjoy a typical Madrid square, where the hundreds of balconies improve the landscape. If you want to visit Plaza Mayor and walk in between its façades, get Madrid...
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L´Illa Diagonal is a shopping centre which was designed like if it was a skyscraper but on its side and it offers its visitors a diversity of shops, restaurants and places to entertain yourself and have an enjoyable time. It´s a really big place, with no less than 56,000 sq metres. Actually, in the shopping centre, there are more than 170 shops with anything than a person could wish for. Here you will be able to find shops with the most prestigious clothes by high-street brands, both for men and women, lingerie, footwear, accessories, children´s, toys, home items, gifts, bars, restaurants and, even though it seems too much, there´s even more. The shopping centre is distributed in three different floors with a construction that it´s a pleasure to wander and a giant market in the lower floor. Also it also possesses in its interior two 4-star hotels where not only do they have guests who go to spend a relaxing weekend but also where they stage conventions and conferences, a gym and up to two schools. The building, which has an avant-gard design, was designed by the famous architects Rafael Moneo and Manuel Solà Morales and it´s one of the most emblematic places in the Barcelona that was born after the construction boom of the 1992 Olympic Games. Because of all of this you should rent apartments in Barcelona and not miss the opportunity to get to know L´illa...
Mónica Boixeda
By the time the Grec Festival gets underway mid-June, Barcelona will be humid, hot and in the steamy depths of a Mediterranean summer. This is the beauty of the Grec Festival: many of its shows are held outside. In its 35th year now, many of the festivals shows are put on in Barcelona´s Greek Theater, or Teatre Grec set in the leafy hillside of Montjuic (Passeig Santa Madrona, 36, 08038 Barcelona). I went to a flamenco performance during the Grec Festival one year at Teatre Grec, and was impressed by the magical, intimate quality of this venue. It should be stated that Teatre Grec is not always easy to get to, but with patience concert-goers can grab a bus up the mountainside from downtown, or grab a cab. Not all the festival shows are held in the al fresco Teatre Grec. This year many shows will also be put on at Teatre Lliure de Gràcia, La Caldera, and at Mercat de les Flors which is one of the city´s most important venues for contemporary dance. Mercat de les Flors literally means Flower Market, and once was the place to go to for carnations and roses. These days its an intriguing space to see Andrés Corchero (8-13 July) or Àngels Margarit (22 – 24 July) perform with passionate grace. While dance is the main focus of the 2011 Grec Festival, also expect music of all kinds, and theater (usually in Spanish or Catalan). Get tickets in advance, as many of the popular Grec shows sell out ahead of time (take it from one who has missed some great music for...
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