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Casa Museo Lope de Vega
Casa Museo Lope de Vega shows the place where the famous writer lived during the last 25 years of his life when he wrote some of his best works.
El oso y el madroño
The sculpture of El oso y el madroño finds itself in the old centre of Madrid and it represents the symbol of the city. You have to take a picture of you there.
Café de Chinitas
The Café de Chinitas, with 40 years experience, is one of the most famous flamenco restaurants in Madrid and the best artists perform in this place.
La Barraca
If you like traditional foods, La Barraca in Madrid is one of the best restaurants you can choose from. The paella and the rices are their speciality.
Taberna La Bola
Taberna La Bola is a typical restaurant in Madrid that has been satisfying customers for over 140 years with its exquisite stew.
Plaza Mayor
The Plaza Mayor of Madrid is one of the most beautiful in the city because it´s surrounded by typical buildings with hundreds of balconies. It cannot be missed.
L´illa Diagonal
L´Illa Diagonal is a big shopping centre in Barcelona that has two hotels inside it, a gym, more than 170 shops of all types of brands and up to two schools.
Festival Grec in Barcelona
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...
Schism at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid
In an impressive Neo-classic building from the 18th century, between the Ritz and Palace hotels, in the middle of San Jerónimo and Paseo del Prado – in the elegant Villahermosa Palace (in one of whose rooms it´s said that Franz Liszt gave one of his most memorable concerts) – the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/home is one of the most important art galleries in not only Spain but probably the whole of Europe. Along with the prestigious Prado Museum, and the Reina Sofia Museum, it constitutes what has been named the “Madrid Golden Mile,” receiving hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. The Prado collection – whose main attraction, with exceptions such as Francisco Goya, is its great selection of Renaissance and Baroque art – covers a period which goes from the Medieval to 19th century Spanish painting, whilst the Reina Sofia picks up from this exact moment and takes us through 20th century art, with an extraordinary collection which includes the only Cezanne and Hopper in Madrid, and the likes of Ghirlandaio, Uccello, Durero, Caravaggio, El Greco, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Chagall, Marc, Klee, Giacometti, Lichtenstein and Beckmann, to name but a few. With such an impressive quality collection, perhaps the most remarkable thing is the fact that it includes styles of art usually lacking in other Spanish art collections, such as Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, the Vanguard experimentalism of the early 20th century, and an important group of paintings from 19th century North America – unique in the sphere of European art. However, the future of the 240 painting strong collection in Madrid could be in danger. They are...Moog
Moog is a club that opens every night of there year and where national and international techno DJs make everyone dance.
