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Madrid or Barcelona, which city is the best?

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian

It’s not only football that plays an important part when it comes to the question of honor between Barcelona and Madrid, but as well there are a lot of more significant aspects in relation to the tourism sector. Millions of tourists who visit both cities regularly are the best critics and they are able to decide which city deserves the title of being the best city in Spain. Madrid v Barcelona: who will bring home the bacon? Before comparing both cities with each other, first we should talk about the things they have in common. Both cities are capitals, Barcelona of Catalonia and Madrid of Spain. The population of both cities is big, although in Madrid live more than 3.200.000 citizens, meanwhile in Barcelona the number comes only to 1.700.000 inhabitants. Furthermore, the Spanish economy makes its benefits due to both cities. Those aspects can be very interesting, but they are completely irrelevant when it comes to the decision where to spend your holidays. Let’s talk about more important categories: What about the creative world of culture and art in both cosmopolitan cities? Barcelona offers you important museums, like the Dalí, Picasso or National Art Museum of Catalonia and a lot of more impressive expositions of the alternative art, but Madrid wins the match with one of the most important museums in Europe: the Prado. But that’s not the only emblematic museum of international art which Madrid offers you. As well the Reina Sofía, the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum and a lot of more treasures of the world of art and culture are waiting for you in Spain’s capital. Point for... read more

Budapest, the spa paradise of Europe

Mónica Boixeda Budapester

Budapest was already given the official title of “Spa City” in 1934. And that for good reasons, because the Hungarian capital offers you uncountable thermal and curative waters and springs. So relaxation will be absolutely guaranteed. The spa paradise invites you to disconnect from your stressful everyday life and dedicate yourself to your health, body and soul. Budapest is as well a perfect health resort due to the huge concentration of minerals in the water and its curative powers. The thermal and curative baths already exist for a long time, but only in the 20th century they discovered the positive consequences regarding to the treatment of specific diseases. You may think that Budapest is only a perfect destination for pensioners or people with health problems, but that isn´t true. Uncountable organizers offers you frequently water parties which will impress you without any doubt. Have you heard something about the “Cinetrip” or “Magic Bath”? These are spectacular water parties where hundreds of party people get crazy dancing and partying in the middle of the water. Gogos, laser shows, theme parties…sounds hot, doesn´t it? A lot of the baths are not mixed, but the most of them are open for men and women at the same time. One of the famous bathes in Budapest is undoubtedly the Gellért Spa (District 4. Kelenhegyi Street, 4). A very special atmosphere is waiting for you there: impressive marble columns, colourful mosaics, statues, stained glass windows, modern decoration and 9 therapeutic pools will make you feel like in paradise. In addition, a thermal water pool, a children’s pool and a whirlpool will guarantee you 100%... read more

Erotic art in the Thyssen museum with Tears of Eros

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian

Georges Bataille announced in the preface of his book The Tears of Eros that his objective was to “raise the awareness about the identity of the orgasm (or small death) and of definitive death”. That’s why the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid lends the title of this work to its new autumn exposition, with erotic art as a topic. In this exposition, which will be open until 31st of January, we will discover erotic passion and the intimate relationship between the sex drive and death instinct through more then 120 works, from the Renaissance until the present day. The works of the avant-garde artists communicate with the classical ones: Rodin, Rubens, Warhol, Rousseau, Cézanne and Picasso are all sharing the same wall. Also other, less conventional art forms have their place here. There is for example a video of a sleeping David Beckham, filmed by Sam Taylor Wood in 2004, and an image of Rachel Weisz posing naked with a snake (see photo). A big part of the exhibition is based on works that show universal myths, such as Adam and Eve, Venus, Andromeda… This way, a lot of figures and scenes from Jewish-Christian tradition and classical mythology present us a tour in two parts. There is “From temptation to sacrifice” which will go deeper into the signs of death in erotic passion, using works such as the Birth of Venus, Eve and the serpent, the Temptation of St. Anthony and The Kiss. The second section is “Eternal Sleep” which will show us the death or dying like being in a trance, similar to ecstasy of love. Part of the... read more