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Nudist beaches in Helsinki
Helsinki is well known for the cruise ships arriving from the Baltic Sea, for its famous Suomenlinna Fortress and the Senate Square, but this wonderful city has much more to offer, especially in summer when the sun is constantly illuminating the city 24 hours. It´s curious, but the Finns enjoy very much the hot and humid weather. Normally, Finnish houses have a sauna in which family members often sit to talk with friends. In Helsinki, you will be able to use the services of the famous Kotiharju Sauna, which is the only public sauna in the city, and still is heated by a traditional wood stove. It is a place where you can have a quiet bath along with 30 completely naked strangers. But this is not the only place where you can get naked, because there are also some nudist beaches where you can enjoy your nudity. One of them is Pihlajasaari Beach, which is near the city of Helsinki located on an island. Here you will enjoy a unisex nudist beach perfect for sunbathing but too rocky to swim. Helsinki is also near Seurasaari, but here you won’t be able to mingle with people of the opposite sex because nudist areas are restricted to women or men. Moreover, in downtown Helsinki you will find a public swimming pool called Yrjönkatu. Here swimsuits are optional and you can swim with or without them. In addition there are unisex sections and also exclusive for men and women....
Loop Festival 2011 in Barcelona
Barcelona gets taken over by images and art between the 19th and 21st May with the biggest video art fair in Europe, Loop Festival 2011, organised by Screen Project S.L. As with each year, dozens of national and international artists working with video art will descend upon the city, projecting in various different spaces. Loop is a platform dedicated to the image, which has found in Barcelona its annual meeting point for creators, curators, viewers, distributors, gallerists and specialists to go along to exhibitions, projections, conferences and presentations. Loop Festival started in 2003 with the proposal to create a key reference point for video art for gallerists, critics and potential buyers, and anybody else interested in the new expression of art. The exhibition spaces will be inside Hotel Catalonia Ramblas amongst others. One of the conferences on offer at Loop will be a conversation between British painter, sculptor and videoist Mark Wallinger and professor at Royal College of Art in London, and art critic at The Guardian, Adrian Searle, at the Hotel Catalonia Ramblas. Wallinger is one of the most interesting artists working in England, and is known for the originality of his work. In 2007, he won the Turner Prize for his piece Sleeper, which is a recording the artist made over ten nights at Berlin´s Neue Nationalgalerie Museum, which he spent dressed as bear. But the work that brought him to be included in the prize shortlist was State Britain, an installation made with slogan placards like those of Brian Haw, who for seven years demonstrated outside The Houses of Parliament. Another interesting conference on the festival...
International Museum Day in Madrid
May is the month of the museums in Spain, and in Madrid they are celebrating this in style by offering two nights of free entry into the city’s museums. The traditional date for the Night of the Museum in Madrid is 15 May, to coincide with the feast day of this city’s patron saint, San Isidro. This year, however, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has proposed 14 May as the night for celebrating the event they have titled Museum and Memory. Madrid has decided to extend the occasion over both nights, thereby giving people more time to visit some museums and get a little closer to an important part of humanity’s heritage. As part of the event, ICOM have created a multimedia programme entitled “A Piece of the Story”, an attempt to share the fascinating history behind each museum’s collection. This will be published on the webpage of the European Museum Night. On this page you can also find information about the history of every museum that has sent their information to ICOM. Over the course of these two days, Madrid’s museums will stay open until 1 a.m., as well as running special programmes. There will be concerts, workshops, dancing, conferences and guided tours. Some museums are offering special programmes all week. One of these is the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (National Archaeological Museum) which offers guided tours on 18 May to show the links between the past and the present. El Templo de Debod (The Debod Temple) and la Biblioteca Nacional (The National Library) have also programmed special events for the occasion. Another venue that is fun and...
Fura dels Baus; Titus Andrónicus in Barcelona
Between the 19th of May and 5th of June, the Mercat de les Flores in Barcelona presents art and dance piece Degustación de Titus Andrónicus by the company Fura dels Baus. This experimental, vanguard play on a Shapespeare classic unites all the senses, breaking all possible barriers in art. Theatre company Fura dels Baus was founded in Barcelona by Marcelí Antunez Roca, Quico Palomar, Carles Padrissa and Pere Tantinyà in 1979. Since its beginnings it has defined itself as an experimental company that seeks dramatic representation which breaks with classical theatre – from the performance to the relation to the public. As such, they created the term furero language in order to refer to this encounter between the public, the work and the company. During the 1980s, the company incorporated theatrical action into its repertoire, and started to work with music, dance, industrial and natural materials and new technologies. At this time, the creation of a collective developed into the active involvement of the spectator with the play, generating a true revolution in the world of theatre. In the 90s, with new digital technologies, they started to work with opera, and with spectacles of greater dimension, participating in the production of the opening ceremony for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Degustación Titus Andrónicus is a return to furore language, with the adaptation of William Shakespeare´s The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, which is centred around human passions and the emotions which stem from the five senses – sight, hearing, feel, smell and taste. Whilst four of the senses are easily incorporated into a dramatic play, the fifth, taste, is...Peggy Guggenheim Gallery
The Peggy Guggenheim Gallery is one of the most important museums because it presents some of the most relevant contemporary art works.
Giorgio Armani Boutique
The Giorgio Armani Boutique is located in the Piazza San Marco in Venice and it´s a luxury shop where one can find everything that they´re looking for to look
Venice Jazz Club
Venice Jazz Club is a famous bar in Venice where both tourists and locals go to spend a magical night to the rhythm of live music.
A Beccafico
A Beccafico is the typical Italian restaurant in the city of Venice. You´ll find a good value for money and you´ll feel like at home.
La Buganvilla
La Buganvilla is one of the best restaurants if you´re looking for traditional dishes. Here you´ll be able to enjoy the best paella, rice and fish.
