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New York in Three Days
Check out our route through New York in three days
Columbus Day in New York
The second Monday in October, New York celebrates one of its best-known festivities: Columbus Day, a holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, paying homage to his Italian origin. Which is why the Italian American community emerges as absolute protagonist of this celebration in an impressive parade that takes over Fifth Avenue.
The New York Marathon
One of the six World Marathon Majors is around the corner, and if you if you’d forgotten about it you can start packing up… New York is waiting for you!
NYC Summer Plans
There´s just something about summer that makes you want to up the stakes each year. To make this year better than the last; do something worth remembering. Then to repeat this process every year. And why not, summer does come only once a year after all. So make the most of it! The destination I fell for this year is our very own New York City. From beautiful beaches to the best bars and concerts. Live music, fashion, drama, to tastetastic culinary explosions. New York City has it all! What better way to spend summer, than to check out a few of the top notch local scenes this year. If you´re in NYC this year, I suggest you go full throttle and experience the fun a truly American summer can dish out! For the slower starters in the day, go to see Shakespeare in the Park. As an NYC tradition, this event takes place each summer. The city even has their own theatre troupe! This year includes ´The Tempest´ and the ´Cymbeline´. Delacorte Theatre, Central Park; may 27th – Aug 23rd, free entry. Love the pearls and the glory of the Gatsby era? Look no further! Bask in the Grand Affair, as you are cast away with an event full of DJs, Charleston contests, to delectable cocktails and music from Michael Aranella and his Dreamland orchestra. Find yourself swept away with the glorious waves only Jazz can provide! Governers Island; Aug 15-16th If musical elements is what you´re after, New York has a wide array of selections in store. Visit the Afrofunk festival. A popular event...
Concerts in New York City March 2015
This next month is full of concerts in New York City, where artists like Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande and groups like Maroon 5 and Red Hot Chili Peppers will be taking to the stage. Simply seeing the bands perform live is impressive, and now imagine doing it in Manhattan. Pure craziness! If you’re interested, here’s the schedule for the month:
Christmas in New York City
New York is one of the world´s most beautiful cities, nobody can’t deny it, but if you are planning to spend Christmas here, you are just about to witness its beauty at its very best. The Big Apple shows its most spectacular face with multicolored lights, stunning decorations and endless shopping options that never fails to delight locals and tourists from around the globe. During this season, happiness, harmony and love fill the atmosphere of the city. Millions of people love walking the streets of NYC, while enjoying the world-famous attractions that make New York at Christmas a spectacular show not to be missed. If there is something that attracts the attention of tourists in the city is its second to none night lighting. The Big Apple’s famous skyline increases exponentially its incomparable beauty at Christmas. It is definitively worth walking around, while enjoying the decorations of its countless shops, especially the ones on the famous Fifth Avenue. Recognized stores like Bloomingdale´s, Cartier and Tiffany & Co, adorn their windows with Christmas decorations that catch the attention of passersby each year. Rockefeller Center The Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, is one of the key moments of the season, this event has become the symbol of the beginning of Christmas in New York. Each year, a huge fir is placed in the center and it is decorated with millions of lights, while the mayor of the city officially opens the Christmas season. The famous Christmas tree is lit every night until the first week of January. Another attraction is the famous Rockefeller Center Ice Rink, which is the favorite...
Halloween Customs
When one thinks of Halloween, pumpkins, witches, cobwebs and other frightening symbols immediately come to mind. Although the American custom of Halloween has been expanding rapidly in Europe, nothing compares to the energy and excitement of experiencing it on the other side of “the pond”. Photo: drsmith7383 Pumpkin Festival If you travel along the east coast to the state of New Hampshire, more specifically the town of Keene, there’s a very unique Halloween festival: the Pumpkin Festival. As everyone knows, the pumpkin is the symbol of Halloween and many families empty them out, cut eyes and a mouth into them and light them up with a candle to give it a more macabre look, a figure known as a Jack-o´-lantern. In Keene, many of these pumpkins (each more bizarre and terrifying than the other) are joined together to create the largest pumpkin mountain in the world, which has already broken several records Guinness. When the pumpkins are lit, it creates an illuminated castle that is truly spectacular to see in person. Each year, 80,000 people come to Keene, a city whose population is around 20,000 people, to see the festival. Go see it for yourself and, as they say, “Let it shine!” Festival of the Dead A little further north, in the town of Salem, Mass., the Festival of the Dead, a festival commemorating the dead, is celebrated annually. Halloween has a macabre tone, and this festival explores the mysteries of death through events that research the various ways that people honor, celebrate and keep secret contact with the dead. Here you will find psychics and mediums who can...
New York Fashion Week 2013 – 2014: the Mecca of Fashion
Madrid, Milan, Paris, London and New York … If there is anything these 5 cities have in common it’s their love of fashion and the newest trends. Although it seems strange, the spring and summer looks for next year have already arrived, which means you can already find something new, original and comfortable. So don’t miss out. Head to New York and be ahead of fashion. You’ll find Spanish brands such as Del Pozo and Custo Barcelona as well as Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan and Belstaff. Welcome to the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, taking place from September 13 to 17. Foto: Art Comments This is the perfect place to discover the most revolutionary designers. The catwalks of New York showcase the most renowned names in fashion, but it also holds a number of surprises. Haute couture in September is synonymous with New York Fashion Week. And it gives you the perfect excuse to plan a get-away to the Big Apple, a trip that is certain to memorable. Belstaff is the brand for you if you’re interested in leather this season, since it features a collection with lots of leather accents. Skirts, suits or tight leather pants abound. And even if it’s not the main material of the garment, it is often the second. Belstaff designs always find a way to incorporate a strip of leather strip, sometimes dyed and often lending a good splash of color. Donna Karan is arriving to the U.S. with a collection of contrasts. And transparent materials are another important aspect. The type of contrasts you can expect include a variety of textures, even within the...
Tennis and the city: New York gets ready for the US Open
The US Open is one of the most glamorous events of the hot New York summer by a long way and it´s suitable for all tennis fans and for fashion victims that can´t really tell the difference between an ace, deuce or a donut, and only want to see and be seen among the VIPs of the Big Apple, just like a Sex and the City episode. Walking around the elegant complex of Flushing Meadows and, of course, enjoying a nice day of tennis or non-tennis (if you chose the ´fashion´ option), is one of those things that everyone should do at least once in their lifetime. And if your visit to the Big Apple -or its surrounding area- coincides in between the 26th of August and the 9th of September of 2013, it would be unforgivable if you missed out on enjoying one of the four Grand Slams of the tennis world tour and cheering on your favourite player. Photo: www.taringa.net Just like it happens in Paris with the clay at Roland Garros, in Melbourne with the plexicushion (which is what the surface is called in the Australian Open, no word of a lie!) or in London with the green and wet grass of Wimbledon, New York is the fourth Grand Slam tournament of the season that gathers the best tennis players in the world for two weeks. All of this happens in a city -and especially in a country- that pays more attention to other sports such as basketball, baseball, American football or even ice hockey, so it´s nice to have some five-star tennis every once in...
