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Romantic Paris: five tips

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Parisian

One of the greatest cliches of the West, is the identification of Paris with the city of love. The beautiful neo-Gothic tomb of the tragic and calamitous Heloise and Abelard, finally together as if to prove that love, in fact, is stronger than death, in the mythical Père Lachaise cemetery (http://www.pere-lachaise.com /) is perhaps, not the worst possible starting points for a romantic alternative route through the city. At the end of the day, despite being gradually eclipsed over time, because they did not fit with the ideal of the courtly love, imposed with irresistible force through the literature in the years immediately following the death of both (second half of the twelfth century), it was one of the greatest love stories of the Middle Ages in the West and resulted in not only an extraordinary set of goliards songs, but also one of the greatest epistolary correspondence lovemaking of all time. From there you can take the subway, always considered a place of astonishing and haphazard amorous encounters, governed by the laws of underworld, extensive and brilliantly documented by music, literature and film, to go to the Boulevard St-Germain and look closely, attached to the rue de Buci, the small attic that Theodore de Banville furnished to serve as housing for the fugitive and adolescent Rimbaud, as well as his meeting place with Paul Verlaine, a traditional couple of the decadent literature, determined, at least the first of them, to declare that, true life is absent and the consequent need to reinvent love. This same idea of the reinvention of love, might lead us to walk from there... read more

Christmas Lights in Berlin

Mónica Boixeda Berliner, Only-Be

Berlin is famous for its light festivals which are part of the Christmas atmosphere and which transform the autumn cold into a warm moment to spend under the spell of the flickering of its lights. Hence that the Berliners go to the streets to see its city, enjoying it at nightfall, despite the cold, when different points of the city light up, highlighting the wonderful historical buildings and every tree where the lights shine. So beautiful is the city in this time of year that many tourism companies have created ´Christmas Light Tours´ for amateur photographers where they take them around lit-up Christmas Berlin to capture and feel the magic of the most picturesque sites in the city and feel the Christmas spirit. As an end of the tour, there´s a voucher for a warm wine to relax the body, feed the spirit, open the appetite for a good dinner and warm the body. Among the most attractive places for their illumination is the Fernsehturm, the TV Tower, which is the tallest construction in Berlin and in the whole of Germany, at 368 metres tall from the base up to the top part of its antena. Just to give a reference of its grandeur, it beats by 65 metres the Eiffel Tower and it´s a few metres shorter than the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. This antenna becomes a lit up spotlight in December that everyone wants to see and capture. Another close-by place which fills up with light and attracts Berliners and tourists alike is the Alexanderplatz Market, a classic in any tour around Berlin for being a traditional... read more