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Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

You still don’t know where to travel to this February? February is a great month to travel with plenty of things to do and see. Don’t miss this opportunity and get a 10% discount for all our apartments. You have time until 10th of February to enter the following promotional code, , in the required field, and take advantage of this promotion PCW83L0W1LSI Romantic trip for Valentine’s Day If one starts thinking about a romantic travel, cities like Paris, Venice or Lisbon will automatically come to mind as the most romantic destinations in the world. There are classics and no matter if is a cliché, this cities assure unforgettable moments and daydream portraits when travelling as a couple. All the glamour and the best cinema at the Berlinale The prestigious film festival the Berlinale, enters its 62th edition this year. The red carpet will be rolled out from February 9th to 19 for celebrities from around the world. The film festival is one of the most important cultural events of the year that will delight fans of the seventh art. Experience the best carnivals This year the carnivals will be celebrated during February. Costumes and masks will march another year in the traditional celebrations. Cities of all Europe acquire a different color and ambient during his days. A perfect excuse for having a good time with family or friends. The state of the art technology at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona During February the Catalan capital will welcome the most important companies from the mobile world. A unique opportunity for professionals and technology lovers to be up-to-date with... read more

Topkapi Palace in Istanbul

Mónica Boixeda Istanbulite, Only-Be

Topkapi Palace is located between the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn, offering an incredible view of the Bosphorus, the straight that on one hand links the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea and on the other it separates Asia and Europe. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. The palace complex is made up by four main patios and small adjacent buildings. In its time of splendor, it held over 4000 people and it covered a vast area on the shore. The complex extended itself with time. The biggest renovations took place at the beginning of the 16th century, after the earthquake that shook the city and then, again, in the 17th century after a fire. The palace is managed by the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry and it´s guarded by officials of the Turkish army. It has hundreds of rooms and chambers where we find the bearers of Ottoman architecture with wide collections of porcelain, costumes, arms, shields, armors, Islamic manuscripts, miniatures, murals and the maximum exponents of Ottoman jewels and treasures. The palace´s structure is pretty complex, with small buildings constructed around the interconnected patios through galleries and walkways. Generally, the buildings are just of one floor. In-between them, there are wonderful sacred trees, gardens and fountains. This way, they transmit a relaxing atmosphere to the palace inhabitants by having the doors and windows looking towards the patios, which also brought fresh air in the hard and hot Istanbul summers. The palace is a vast rectangle, divided in four patios and a harem. The first patio was the most accessible one while... read more

El Molino in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

When 114 years ago the owner of a modest tavern between Chinatown and the Poble Sec decided to sell his business, he could hardly imagine that it would soon become the mythical El Molino, the most glittering cabaret of the Parallel, one of the Babylonian streets of Europe´s Belle Epoque, riddled with many theaters, cinemas, cabarets, dance halls, vaudeville shows, cafes and even circuses, this area was known as the Broadway of Barcelona. We talked before about fate, in order to respect a strange fatality astrological-geomantic rate saved as a chest of gold in the name of the street, as the course of this long avenue broad and scrupulously coincides with the parallel 41-º 22´34 land “north. It is perhaps this sense of destiny that has made the street and el Molino overcame decently during the terrible years of Francoist repression after the Civil War (at the end of which, it has been said, peace did not come, but victory) than among other grotesque acts officially took off the red color from El Molino (originally called the Moulin Rouge because of the celebrated cabaret in Montmartre, General Franco forced the room to give the epithet in the name of their particular crusade against communism and in defense of Christian Western civilization for which, to paraphrase Unamuno, can not be said too often that he use civilized methods, or Western, even less so Christians). As fate made that the aura of Parallel did not disappear completely when starting from the late sixties, it began to massively imposing other forms of entertainment today and live a sort of renaissance with the... read more