by Katharina Giesler | Sep 28, 2016 | Madrid
In the beating heart of the Spanish capital, visitors from all four corners of the globe can marvel and muse over the stunning architecture of Madrid de los Austrias (The Madrid of the Austrians) – the city’s central, Hapsburg-centric old town. Located just off the...
by Katharina Giesler | Sep 21, 2016 | Catalonia
Pass through a plaza in Barcelona or Tarragona, or any number of Catalan towns and villages during a local festival and you could be in for a breathtaking sight: local men, women and children standing on each other’s shoulders up to ten tiers high. The human tower or...
by Katharina Giesler | Sep 14, 2016 | Northern Spain
Spain’s northern region of La Rioja is synonymous with fine wine. Here, the quality of wine combined with the region’s vast blue skies and rolling green hills makes it one of the top destinations for enotourism. So maybe it’s not surprising that Logroño, the region’s...
by Katharina Giesler | Sep 7, 2016 | Spain generally
Starting in Seville, the capital of southern Spain’s Andalusia region, the Silver Way (Via de la Plata) passes through the regions of Extremadura and Castilla y Leon before finishing at Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. This astounding route reveals the true richness...
by Katharina Giesler | Aug 31, 2016 | Levante
La Tomatina is a festival unlike any other. It culminates when – for a couple of crazy hours – the small town of Bunyol (near Valencia) becomes a battleground for the world’s biggest food fight. Tens of thousands of people gleefully hurl ripe tomatoes at each other,...
