Tuesday, September 24, 2013

British Embassy Madrid

Did you spent your holidays in Spain and now considering living in Spain?. British Embassy in Madrid gives you some useful information, developed for British citizens retiring to Spain, including driving info and some benefits you should know.





Monday, May 6, 2013

Courtyard's festival in Córdoba

This month, the city of Córdoba, in the south of Spain, celebrates the Courtyards Festival. A really beautiful experience you can live in Spain during 10 days.





Monday, April 29, 2013

Dalí: nice excuse to visit Madrid

Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum is about to show an interesting collection of Salvador Dalí works. Undoubtedly a good opportunity to learn more about this genius of surrealism, born in Figueres, who revolutionized the concept of art and visual creativity worldwide. You can have more information just here.




Santander smart city

Santander, einer der schönsten Städte in Spanien, wird transformiert, um eine intelligente Stadt geworden. Der renommierte deutsche Zeitung Der Spiegel widmet sich diesem Thema ein Artikel, können Sie lesen Deutsch und Englisch.




Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Let's study spanish in Spain!

All of you interested in study spanish now has a new portal called Study in Spain, that will collect the different options available for people wanting to study spanish in the country that was the cradle of this language, nowadays extended all over the world. Here you will find any resources needed to travel to Spain for studying spanish, at university level or maybe just looking for a spanish school, summer courses, etc.




Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Refreshing Madrid

Although the economic situation is going through Spain and other countries of the European Union, in the centre of Madrid some people decided to recover old places that were closed for years, to reactivate the life that they had years ago, and thus, the spanish economy. The parts of an unrivaled heritage serves as an excuse for some entrepreneurs to start businesses unprecedented in this country, and they are slowly populating some areas of the city from a new generation of consumers, attracted by an original and a spaces that have been recovered from their traditional past to become a new concept of wellness, hospitality and co-working spaces.

The Monocle journal produced this report deepening on some of these new spaces that recover the bustle of years ago, or just serve different purposes for which they were designed.





Wednesday, February 13, 2013

That's how they see us

This video was recorded at Reina Sofia museum, in Madrid, and shows in a very nice way, how foreign people living in Madrid sees just the people of Madrid. They were asked among other things, why locals are called cats, or what most called their attention about citizens of Madrid.

The video ends with a famous saying very well know here: "From Madrid to Heaven".


* Why citicens of Madrid are called cats (gatos).
* Symbolism of El Oso y el Madroño (the bear and the strawberry tree)..