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The Library of Catalonia
Public libraries have always been welcoming places for the homeless. Just think of Paris, whose libraries are inseparable from the image of the clochards, who spend the winter in them. It is said that among the clochards from Paris you find the wisest men and women of the city. If they have attained wisdom as a result of their status in the libraries of the city or if it is something older than that, then the cause of their particular choice of lifestyle continues to be a matter of dispute. It would be wrong however to assume that they are drunk. As the great writer and consummate drunk Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) said “The homeless who drink tend not to visit the library when they have enough money to pay their dosage of wine. However, they hardly find a better place to hang out when they have nothing to eat or drink. After all, at least in the library they can use the toilets for free, they are warm in winter and you can enjoy the silence and infinite possiblities to live other lives. Charles Bukowski knows what he´s talking about. After all, in his youth he was one of those homeless people who drank, read and starved to be a writer. It was in Los Angeles Public Library where he spent decades. After devouring entire sections of books which usually had no meaning at all to him, one day he came across a copy of a novel called Ask the Dust, by John Fante, who definitely set his vocation against any type of adversity as a writer and his...Green Pepper Restaurant Lisbon
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Nectar Wine Bar Restaurant Lisbon
Typical Portuguese cuisine and Mediterranean restaurant with a wide variety of national and international wines. They offer catering service.
Belém Bar Café Lisbon
International food which is well elaborated on the shores of the Taugus river and with chillout music sessions at dinner time. It works as a bar and club on weekends.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence
“Lady Chatterley´s Lover” is an exquisite work of erotic literature of the Modern Age, which was written by the English author David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence during the last few years of his life. It caused a great commotion when it was published for the first time in 1928 privately in the city of Florence. But Lawrence consecrated himself as a renown author a few years after his death (1885-1930) when in 1960 they published this novel around the world and, especially, in his native England. From then on, the works of Lawrence were incorporated to the literary lectures as an example of novelty and enthusiasm for art. Although he never stopped being a controverted author, various writers from that time gave him supports, such as Aldous Huxley, who contributed to the publishing of his works. But also, many others loathed his works, such as the feminist Virginia Woolf, who accused Lawrence of being a misogynist. Today, the novel “Lady Chatterley´s Lover” is one of the most important pieces of erotic literature and it still remains in force after all these years. It´s about a young and beautiful woman, Constanza, who is married to a aristocratic, paraplegic, multimillionaire. Her, thirsty for new sensations, explores her sexuality by the hand of an employee of her husband, the forester. With him, she lives the most magnificent sexual acts that anyone could imagine and it´s all described to the very last detail, which makes it very interesting and exciting for the readers. d.b The story happens in the Italian city of Florence, because that´s where the author lived for a few years and...Joan Miró Foundation
The Joan Miró Foundation, located in Barcelona, has some of the most important works in Spain.
Tra – Edge of Becoming in Venice
Until November 24th the exhibition Tra- Edge of Becoming presents itself in the Palazzo Fortuny, organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Axel Vervoordt Foundation, which is about the legacy of Mariano Fortuny, which will be represented in the work of 13 artists and over 300 works which belong to the museum. Just like the three previous exhibitions, this one takes the legacy of the Spanish designer, photographer and inventor Mariano Fortuny, the wabi-inspired experiences of the art collector Axel Vervoordt, added to the thoughts of the economist and writer of the book The Future of Money, Bernard Lietaer, as well as those of the scientist Eddie Wolf, to create a total experience that puts aesthetics, science and thought together, so that the spectator can see the world through the pleasure of art and the knowledge of sciences. The commissioners of the exhibition, Rose Martínez, Daniela Ferretti, Axel Vervoordt and Francisco Poli, built a whole conceptual architecture to give its name to the exhibition, playing with the inverse reading of ART: TRA, which corresponds to the concept of the design of the exhibition. Tra- Edge of Becoming explores the existing relationships between place and history and how the affect the creative heritage of universal wisdom. Among the exhibitors here there is the Serbian artist Marina Abramovic, the Japanese conceptual artist Kazuo Shiraga, Eduardo Chillida and Fernand Léger. Among the artists that prepared a work which is exclusive to this exhibition there is: Massimo Bartolini, Jannis Kounellis, Maurizio Donzelli, Giulio Paolini, Kim Soo-Ja, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Günther Uecker. The Serbian conceptual artist Marina Abramovic,...
Barcelona Literary Routes
Many tourists in Barcelona are just satisfied by proving that they walked into La Sagrada Familia Church, their hands touched Antoni Gaudi’s dragon or that their palate tasted the absinthe at Marsella Bar, while they remembered Hemingway. Other tourists play the role of being literary detectives. Their mission lies in finding the places that inspired writers like Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Ildefonso Falcones or Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Barcelona’s literary routes invite us on an excursion through the city in fiction times. Some tourists make a journey back in time to the 1970’s, to get into the character of the detective Pepe Carvahlo, the hero of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s novels. From Galicia originally, his character is known for his like for pa amb tomàquet as well as for the girls who offered sex in the streets of the Chinese Town, which was the former name of the Raval Neighborhood. The fans of crime fiction know that the Boadas Bar has served as the scene of their stories and they will not hesitate to order the Mediterranean menu Pepe Carvhalo in the Casa Leopoldo Restaurant. Other tourists will book a room at the Hotel Barceló Fraval, a building made of iron that has a terrace and pink lighting at night, whose structure is located in a square named Manual Vásquez Montalbán. Since the moment the novel “Olympic Sabotage” was launched, which is about the transformation of Barcelona before the Olympic games of 1992, the cityscape that Carvhalo fell in love with, has metamorphosed. Booking a ticket for a literary route is wandering around the current city of Barcelona, but from the...7 Day Spa Lisbon
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Shopping Centre Vasco da Gama
Shops, cinemas and restaurants with a terrace over the Parque das Naçoes and the Taugus river. Located in front of the Oriente train station.
