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You need three things: love for the theater, be in Madrid and understand Harold Pinter’s plays. If you have those 3 requirements then you will enjoy a night in the Teatro Español. Alfonso Ungría directs ‘Pinter‘ a double program that features: ‘A Slight Ache’ and ‘One for the Road’ two plays by Harold Pinter. The […]
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía offers an exhibition of Chuck Close’s paintings until the seventh of May. This is an exhibition for those interested in the late modernist abstraction created in the sixties and seventies. Chuck Close has engaged these stratagems not in the pursuit of flat, geometry-dependent abstraction but in a […]
Just a few things to remember and take note if you are travelling to Spain and need health care or are in trouble.
In case of emergency
Dial 112 free of charge (valid throughout Spain). Service is given in Spanish, and also in English, French and German in some tourist areas.
Medication
In Spain, medications are obtained at pharmacies. […]
Everbody who has ever been in the Alhambra says that one visit is not enough. You have to keep going back to walk along the palace to discover every time new secrets, new sounds, new perfumes. I must admit that I still haven’t been there, but I am planning to go soon, so I am […]
It is carnival time in Spain. From now until Ash Wednesday (February 21st this year) — and in some places a little longer — it is a wild, weird and wacky season of masks, parades and parties. That is probably what gave the celebration its name: carne vale, Latin, meaning “meat, farewell.” Apokreo, its Greek […]
If you are in Barcelona these days and you want to deep into history you can discover the city’s anti-aircrafts batteries. Barcelona was bombed by the Franco’s airplanes during the Spanish Civil War and the Barcelona City Council, in recalling this event, wants to remember the civilian population that suffered the tragic consequences of the […]
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival is back on the streets. Court number 1 in Santa Cruz ordered the lifting of the temporary suspension order which had prohibited the night-time musical acts in the street, planned to start on Friday. The new ruling from Judge Jaime Guilarte Martín Calero, came after he had met with all […]
Just when everything was getting ready for another year of festivities, music and fun, and I just talked about it in my post Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival 2007 , a Spanish court has suspended Carnival street festivities in the Canary Islands city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife — one of the biggest in the […]
Carnival is back to Santa Cruz de Tenerife and this year, the central theme of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival 2007 is the world of fashion. The streets of Tenerife’s capital are flooded with revelers from all over the world who come to together to celebrate the most Brazilian of all Spain’s Carnival celebrations. […]
For anybody interested in Tintoretto, who dominated Venetian painting in the second half of the XVI century through the power of his imagination, the virtuosity of his brush, the force of his personality and the sheer quantity of his production. The Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid is offering a rigorous and comprehensive survey of […]
