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Showing posts with label Spain. Show all posts
Through Madrid by Taxi
Deutsche Welle weekly series joins six local taxi drivers in six European cities. In the first part, Sergio Garcia shows us the most beautiful corners of his home city, Madrid.
Related:
Three Perfect Days: Madrid http://1.usa.gov/1NMyL3U
Related:
Three Perfect Days: Madrid http://1.usa.gov/1NMyL3U
Gran Canaria is a favorite winter get-away
"For many people from colder European climes, Gran Canaria is a favorite winter get-away. But it has a lot more to offer than just sun-drenched beaches. For Euromaxx extratour, our reporters crossed the island from north to south, discovering the many facets of the 3rd largest of the Canary Islands."
Madrid's new face
From Chicago Tribune:
Today's Madrid is modern sprawl surrounding an intact, easy-to-navigate historic core
Anyone can join the paseo. Even past midnight on a hot summer night, entire families with little kids are strolling, greeting neighbors and enjoying little beers and tapas in a series of bars. A favorite local snack is sauteed pig's ears.
Spain has a reputation for partying very late, not stopping until offices open in the morning. If you're people-watching early in the morning, it's hard to know who is finishing their day and who's just starting it
One reason people stay out late, especially in summer, is to escape the day's heat. During the summer, Rick Steves was assessing restaurants by the quality of their air-conditioning.
Attractions
- Retiro Park is a 300-acre green-and-breezy escape. Once the private domain of royalty, this majestic park has been a favorite of Madrid's commoners since King Charles III decided to share it with his subjects in the late 18th century. In its center is a big lake (El Estanque), where you can rent a rowboat.
- Royal Botanical Garden (Real Jardin Botanico), just south of the Prado
- Parque de la Montana
Throughout Europe, energetic governments are renewing green space and turning formerly car-congested wastelands into public spaces.
References:
Bit by bit, Madrid's new face emerges. Chicago Tribune.
Related:
Three Perfect Days: Madrid http://1.usa.gov/1NMyL3U
Today's Madrid is modern sprawl surrounding an intact, easy-to-navigate historic core
Anyone can join the paseo. Even past midnight on a hot summer night, entire families with little kids are strolling, greeting neighbors and enjoying little beers and tapas in a series of bars. A favorite local snack is sauteed pig's ears.
Spain has a reputation for partying very late, not stopping until offices open in the morning. If you're people-watching early in the morning, it's hard to know who is finishing their day and who's just starting it
One reason people stay out late, especially in summer, is to escape the day's heat. During the summer, Rick Steves was assessing restaurants by the quality of their air-conditioning.
Attractions
- Retiro Park is a 300-acre green-and-breezy escape. Once the private domain of royalty, this majestic park has been a favorite of Madrid's commoners since King Charles III decided to share it with his subjects in the late 18th century. In its center is a big lake (El Estanque), where you can rent a rowboat.
- Royal Botanical Garden (Real Jardin Botanico), just south of the Prado
- Parque de la Montana
Throughout Europe, energetic governments are renewing green space and turning formerly car-congested wastelands into public spaces.
References:
Bit by bit, Madrid's new face emerges. Chicago Tribune.
Related:
Three Perfect Days: Madrid http://1.usa.gov/1NMyL3U
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth" - Pablo Picasso
From Writer's Almanac:
October 25 is the birthday of the man who said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." That's Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain (1881), who helped found the Cubist movement. His paintings include Guernica (1937), set amidst the Spanish Civil War, and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, (The Young Ladies of Avignon) (1907), which features five naked ladies in a brothel in Barcelona. That painting now hangs at New York City's MOMA.
October 25 is the birthday of the man who said, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." That's Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain (1881), who helped found the Cubist movement. His paintings include Guernica (1937), set amidst the Spanish Civil War, and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, (The Young Ladies of Avignon) (1907), which features five naked ladies in a brothel in Barcelona. That painting now hangs at New York City's MOMA.
Gazpacho from Trader Joe's
Gazpacho from Trader Joe's - not that tasty actually.
Gazpacho from Trader Joe's - nutrition info.
Trader Joe's top 25 customer favorite products http://buff.ly/1bLcXju
Gazpacho from Trader Joe's - nutrition info.
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Learn Spanish: Free Online Resources
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BBC Spanish Course
- Spanish Steps beginners course: it's a beginners course in practical, spoken Spanish in just 24 short steps online.
Wikiversity: Spanish for Foreign Learners
A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler
Audio
Podcasts: Beginners Spanish Audio
Coffee Break Spanish
LearnSpanish.com: Learn to Speak Spanish
Related:
6 clinical pediatric vignettes to be used for teaching and learning of basic medical Spanish http://bit.ly/wCrHG
BBC Spanish Course
- Spanish Steps beginners course: it's a beginners course in practical, spoken Spanish in just 24 short steps online.
Wikiversity: Spanish for Foreign Learners
A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler
Audio
Podcasts: Beginners Spanish Audio
Coffee Break Spanish
LearnSpanish.com: Learn to Speak Spanish
Related:
6 clinical pediatric vignettes to be used for teaching and learning of basic medical Spanish http://bit.ly/wCrHG
Spanish painter Diego Velázquez
From Wikipedia:
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656).
My favorite painting by Diego Velázquez is The Waterseller of Seville:
The Waterseller of Seville, 1618-1622, Oil on canvas. Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.
Wikipedia has detailed reviews of most of his more popular paintings in Selected works.
From WebMuseum:
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Diego Velázquez. Olga's Gallery.
Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego. WebMuseum.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656).
My favorite painting by Diego Velázquez is The Waterseller of Seville:
The Waterseller of Seville, 1618-1622, Oil on canvas. Image source: Wikipedia, public domain.
Wikipedia has detailed reviews of most of his more popular paintings in Selected works.
From WebMuseum:
Spain's greatest painter was also one of the supreme artists of all time. A master of technique, highly individual in style, Diego Velasquez may have had a greater influence on European art than any other painter.
When he was 24 he painted a portrait of Philip IV, who became his patron.
The artist made two visits to Italy. On his first, in 1629, he copied masterpieces in Venice and Rome. He returned to Italy 20 years later and bought many paintings--by Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese--and statuary for the king's collection.
Except for these journeys Velasquez lived in Madrid as court painter.
Duties of Velasquez' royal offices also occupied his time. He was eventually made marshal of the royal household, and as such he was responsible for the royal quarters and for planning ceremonies.
In 1660 Velasquez had charge of his last and greatest ceremony--the wedding of the Infanta Maria Theresa to Louis XIV of France. This was a most elaborate affair. Worn out from these labors, Velasquez contracted a fever from which he died on August 6.
Velasquez was called the "noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country." He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. "His men and women seem to breathe," it has been said; "his horses are full of action and his dogs of life."
Because of Velasquez' great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as "the painter's painter."
Related:
Diego Velázquez. Olga's Gallery.
Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego. WebMuseum.
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