Self-guided tours in Spain

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Olive grove near the house of Dali in Cadaques opened for visitors
 The house-museum of Salvador Dali in Cadaques (Catalonia) has opened a new space available to visit with spectacular views of the bay Portligat. It is an olive grove where he created some of his works.

New zone area of ​​2400 square meters presented Secretary General Fund "Gala - Salvador Dali" Penyuelas Louis and director of the Theatre-Museum in Figueres Antoni Pichot. Penyuelas explained that guests can also visit the garage, where Dali held his legendary Cadillac. Now it will be shown audiovisual materials. Internal patio and olive grove originally conceived as Dali public of his house, where he was friends and admirers.

The Foundation "Gala - Salvador Dali" noted that with the advent of the new territory a tour of the house will increase from an hour to a half. In preparation for the opening of its experts followed the criteria listed in the archival documents of the Research Center of Dali works. The lounge area is furnished with chairs were six feet, which is traditionally used artist.

Opening olive grove is the next stage of the project of transforming the house into a museum of Dali, which was launched in 1997. Some of the works created by Dali in the grove, presented in audiovisual material broadcast in a former garage artist. Available to the public area of ​​the house has increased from 1546 square feet to 3946.

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Castile and Leon: The surrounding area offers Segovia Route pine resin
Association Honorse Tierra de Pinares together with the city of Segovia (Segovia) organized in several provincial cities of Castile tourist program on the local production of forest resources and pine resin Ruta de la miera.

This spring-summer tour begins June 16, 2014 and will be a complement to the winter seasonal route Mirando al Mar ("Peering into the sea") and autumn tour Entre las aguas del Pirón y el Carracillo ("Between the waters Piron and Karrasilo"), discovered in these parts a little earlier. Time to start Route pine resin was chosen: spring and summer - just the time when the trees recover their strength after the winter cold and vigorously develop substances necessary for the formation of resins. In addition, during the warmer months in the vicinity of Segovia is very beautiful.

The route will consist of several parts. It will begin in the heart of the regional production of the resin, in the town of Santuario de la Virgen del Henar. There is still preserved vintage smolokurni where you can get acquainted with the traditional making process resins. Then wait a few cognitive tourists trekking through the pine forest, a tour of Forest Engineering Museum in the village Turègano, as well as visits to several modern smolokuren in settlements Cuéllar, Arroyo de Cuéllar, Chañe, Sanchonuño, Zarzuela del Pinar, Fuentepelayo, Aguilafuente, Sauquillo de Cabezas and others.

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The handset will allow tourists to find organic foods
By order of the agricultural park in Baix Llobregat (Catalonia) developed a special mobile application navigation by retail outlets farm products directly from the manufacturers. Here's hoping that it is useful for both locals and tourists alike, but especially the last: will not get to the dealers.

The application is available on the platform Android, and the iOS for iPhone. You can download it for free. In addition to maps of farm sales points, it contains the main routes and points of interest for those who wish to make a self-guided tour on the agrarian park. You can search and find those specific products (vegetables, fruits, etc.), who wants to buy it is the user: the system will show the nearest place where they are sold.

Agricultural Park in Baix Llobregat - a large area, covering about 3,000 acres, included in the list of state-protected natural areas in Spain. This is fertile ground on which you can find almost all the variety of Spanish crop. Here farmers work 14 municipalities. Some of them settled in the valley of the River Llobregat, others - in the fields a little further from the shore.

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DSBW calls on a trip to Spain
In the company's product line are some copyright excursion tours through Spain, which allow to cross the length and breadth of the country and grab neighboring France. All programs start in Barcelona. Flight operates on Wednesdays and Saturdays airline "Orenburg Airlines".

According to the head of the Department of Spanish and Andorran DSBW Dmitry Romanov, sales hit a tour "Spanish classics." Within 8 days of travel, tourists have the opportunity to see the iconic Spanish attractions. Route includes Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Granada, Seville, Cordoba, Madrid and Zaragoza. The tour is offered in two versions - standard or economy (program light).

In the round of "Three Capitals" will appear in front of tourists in Barcelona, Valencia and Madrid. The main emphasis of the program is to Barcelona and Madrid.

Another proprietary programs DSBW - combined 8-day tour of Spain - France (Barcelona - Carcassonne - Avignon - Nice - Cannes - Monaco - Nimes - Pont du Gard - Lloret de Mar - Barcelona). His itinerary includes a city, rarely offered in the programs of other operators. This season tour updated: it includes interesting French city of Nimes and the Pont du Gard, increased duration of the trip to Spain. Tourists are offered two options for travel, standard and light.

All programs can be supplemented week holiday on the Mediterranean, on the Costa Brava and Costa Dorada.

Tourists can choose and stay at sea without combining it with the excursion program.

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Amelya Cambrils de Mar selected fishing tourism
Original new kind of tourism will offer guests the Costa Dorada, since July. Due to the renewal of the partnership agreement between Cambrils and Amelya de Mar, tourists will be able to fully enjoy what life fishermen. This initiative is being implemented for the second year in Cambrils, and will first be tested in Amele. Currently, eight fishing vessels assigned to Cambrils, have confirmed their participation in the project.

In the sector of fishing tourism differ from traditional advertising to Costa Dorada sun and beaches. Participants constituting a group of a maximum of five people per boat, will feel on his experience one day in the life of local fishermen. Reserve this unusual tour can now be on the internet portals marine stations Costa Dorada and the whole of Spain (www.estacionnautica.info and www.estacionesnauticas.info), as well as relevant departments to promote tourism. Activities will begin on July 1 and will last until September. Tour includes, besides the fishing, meals on board a fishing trawler or boat.

Choosing fishing tourism, city councils prefer qualitative over quantitative tourism product. Opinions Mayor Merse Cambrils Dalmau and Mayor Amelia de Mar Andreu Marti coincided: the project will evaluate the work of urban tourists and fishermen will push an alternative model of tourism.

Such kind of tourist activities are governed by specific regulations, carried out exclusively in Catalonia. It is approved by the Ministry of Development and is currently being implemented only in Roses and Vilanova i la Geltru.

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Santa Paula offers free practice yoga and water aerobics
Assembly of the Red Cross of Santa Flooring (Alicante Province) decided to organize free yoga and water aerobics for persons over 55 years. The courses will be free of charge during July and August in the biggest local beaches - Gran Playa and Levante. These classes are included in the draft of the local Department of Tourism "Healthy aging» (Proyecto de Envejecimiento Saludable), working in this town on the Costa Blanca for three years. Practice shows that the courses are popular enough - every summer they are attended by at least hundreds of holidaymakers.

Classes will be held twice a week - on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Requirements for all who wish to participate in this program are the same and simple to execute: You need to have the desire, but to him - a cream that protects the skin from solntsaYu panamku and not to baked head. And of course, bathing suit - water treatments included in the program of each lesson, and twice - before and after exercise.

Recording is carried out in the offices of the Red Cross.

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7 named the most beautiful natural attractions in Spain
With the help of online voting for several weeks has inaugurated a new ecological route, including the 7 most beautiful and unusual natural attractions in Spain.

Voting ended yesterday, June 29, 2014. List 7 Maravillas Naturales de España headed rocky little peninsula Gaztelugatxe, located in the town Bormeo (Bormeo) on the shores of the Bay of Biscay in the Basque Country. On top of a mountain in the center of the peninsula is the ancient chapel of San Juan, built in the tenth century.

The rest of the prizes were given away: mountain nature reserve Parque Natural de Someido in Asturias, famous for its wealth of flora and fauna, as well as spectacular scenery, beautiful park, which is located on the coast of Andalusia, Parque Natural Cabo de Gata, antique gold mines Las Mèdulas Castile and Leone, UNESCO-listed World Heritage site, a conservation area in Castile-La Mancha Parque Natural de Las Lagunas de Ruidera, which praised the beauty even in the novel of Cervantes 'Don Quixote', a panoramic viewing platform to the funicular Fuente Dè in Cantabria and surprising stone Archways a Praia das Catedrais natural origin on the beach Ribadeo (Ribadeo) in Galicia, reminiscent of the cathedral vaults.

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Leon Province welcomes tourists in search of gold
  In the era of Emperor Octavian Augustus Romans engaged in gold mining in the town of Las Médulas in Comarca El Bierzo (province of Leon). Today, the Foundation plans to resume mining culture washing gold and attract tourists to this process. About this newspaper ABC said the chairman of the organization Lamelas Manuel.

The idea of ​​the organizers is to resume such activities, but this process must be controlled to avoid a mass influx of visitors. According Lamelasa, the fund has already mastered the practice of washing gold in the rivers of the region 8-10. A significant amount of gold is not found there, but similar exercise can be a good entertainment for tourists.

As part of a campaign to promote this initiative Fund mining culture organized similar activities for children. "They take it with much enthusiasm," - said Lamelas. During the first expedition, which took place a few years ago, all the participants managed to extract gold and take it with you as a souvenir.

The main objective of this project is not only a tourist attraction, but also preservation of the heritage of miners, which is an important part of the history of the city and can not be lost.

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Galician monastery opened for tourists

Throughout the summer, until September 30, the Spanish Galicia travelers can visit the old monastery of Santa Maria de Montferrier (Santa Maria de Monfero), located in the town of Montferrier (30 kilometers east of La Coruna). This unique monument of architecture was built in the XII century and perfectly preserved to this day.

At the monastery are several beautiful churches and chapels built in different architectural styles - from Baroque to Renaissance, according to Bueno Latina. Tourists can also go through the scenic route length of 11 kilometers, enjoy the local scenery and surroundings of the town Montferrier visit riverside Eume (Eume).

The monastery is open to the public from 11:00 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 20:30.

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Tourists traveling to Salamanca astronaut see on the wall of the old cathedral
Part of human nature inexplicable and mysterious quest. And even when the explanation of the mysterious phenomenon has already been found, there are people who continue to believe in the "miraculous" nature of the phenomenon.

A classic example is an ancient puzzle Cathedral in the provincial center of Salamanca is located in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon in 1985 and included in the UNESCO heritage list. Temple complex itself (one of two in the city) is composed of two cathedrals - the old (Catedral Vieja, XII century) and new, late-Gothic - Catedral Nueva de la Asunción de la Virgen (New Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin), which had been built in the XVI and XVIII centuries.

But not all tourists arriving here beckoning beauty of an ancient temple. Many on arrival immediately rush to the northern entrance of the new cathedral, where agencies have "doors Ramos» (Puerta de Ramos), directly opposite the Palace of Anaya, hovering at high altitude in the "weightless" ... modern astronaut in full "battle" outfit - spacesuit with breathing hose, helmet, instrument box on the chest and boots with ribbed soles. This figure even received unofficial name - the "Holy astronaut."

Where did this astronaut on the wall of the old cathedral? The explanation is simple enough: in 1992 during the restoration of dilapidated doors from time to time one of the restorers Ramos, named Miguel Romero, showed creativity, decorate the walls of such a figure. Further versions differ: someone thinks that restorer thus decided to play a trick. Other - more pragmatic explanation: Romero, making a modern element to the facade of the ancient temple, wanted to perpetuate a similar way for a landmark event of the twentieth century - the conquest of space by man. But who exactly figure shows, there are many versions. As Stone character appear: first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian, the first American astronaut John Glenn, the first American to walk in space, Edward White, the first to set foot on the moon American astronaut Neil Armstrong, etc.

Nevertheless, many people tend to believe that the figure of the astronaut was originally here, and, therefore, has a mysterious, going beyond conventional logic origin. They say that the joke restorers in this case is excluded for various reasons. First, the image recorded by the astronaut on the XIX century engravings. Secondly, the ancient manuscripts of Salamanca supposedly have information about meetings with monks beings from other worlds. Third, restoration always goes by the canons adopted in the Middle Ages, and in the case of an object that is UNESCO heritage, and does require additional expertise, approvals and permits. They also say that the astronaut and not at all, but a kind of hellish brood, whom many "lives" on the walls, facades and column capitals old European churches.

In the proof of the "wonderful" version of the origin astronaut provides a number of other similar finds. For example, images of astronauts on Japanese netsuke, model airplane of the Egyptian tombs, the Inca gold "airplanes", the image of Darth Vader on the National Cathedral in Washington, as well as the image of a man with a laptop and mobile phone on a mosaic of metro station "Kiev Ring" in Moscow built back in 1954.

I must say that on the wall of the cathedral in Salamanca, there are other, less well-known but no less interesting figure. For example, the figure of a smiling dragon with three scoops of ice cream. Or boy with no childish developed manhood.

Guides and tour guides are in no hurry to persuade fans of "miraculous" appearance version astronaut on the wall of the ancient temple. After all, most importantly, intrigued tourists come here, adding to the local treasury.