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Why are we in love with Madrid?

Madrid is a cosmopolitan and historic city, and a great place to experience the best of Spanish culture, art, and cuisine. Unlike many other popular European cities, many of Madrid’s best attractions, including some of its museums, can be visited without having to crack open your wallet. But we love Madrid for several other reasons:

1. We ❤ la Gran Vía

This is Madrid’s most famous street, full of people 24/7. Gran Via is a home for Michelin-starred restaurants, cafes, and high-end boutiques. But a stroll down the street also leads past some great examples of classic Spanish architecture, and never forget to raise your eyes to the rooftops: Breathtaking.

One more year in San Sebastian

The largest spanish show of the 7th art novelties is held from 21 to 29 of September 2012. And it takes place in one of the most beautiful places in Spain, San Sebastián, also kown as ‘the Pearl of the Bay of Biscay’.

Interesting Festival!

SAVING FOR CUBA

So it’s September. A completely ridiculous time to be pumping out a blog post about a festival held annually in July. But given it’s in Spain, you may need 10 months to save enough money to get there.

La Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme, or the Festival of Near Death Experiences, makes an absolute mockery of La Tomatina and Running with the Bulls on the scale of crazy experiences and culture. Just like the name suggests, the event recognises individuals that came freakishly close to kicking the bucket during the year that’s gone by. In most parts of the world, people would just say a quick prayer of thanks and sink a couple of tallies, but that’s not exactly the Spanish style.

Rather, the aforementioned near deathers jump into (actual) caskets and get carried to a local hill by friends and family. Here, they take a moment to reflect upon the…

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Places we love because of their madness. Part II.

Let’s finish the previous post with more of the craziest buildings ever built in spain.

Número Ocho: Ariane 5 at Sevilla’s Expo.

What is it: The Expo Sevilla 92 changed Sevilla completely. Sevilla has always been a traditional city and the Expo opened it to the world. Lots of beatiful buildings are still at the old Expo’s terrains, one of them this Ariane 5 exact copy. There’s no need to go to Cape Kennedy to see rockets!

What do we think when we look at it: ehm… the Ariane 5?

Número Nueve: Hungary’s pavilion at Sevilla.

Places we love because of their madness. In Spain, of course.

We wanted to make a small post about the craziest buildings you can find in our lovely country. But after doing some research…Wow… we cannot name all of them in just ONE post!
Let’s start with the ones we already have shown you here in this blog:

Número Uno: La Ciudad de las Ciencias y de las Artes de Valencia.

What is it: With this “short” name we have one of the most revolutionary buildings in Valencia. The whole city was revitalised with this complex of buildings with an opera house, an oceanographic, museums…

What do we think when we look at it: we think of manatees! or armadillos 🙂

Número Dos: Sagrada Familia.

Monocle Magazine features tripNETer

tripNETer had the great honor to taking up little space in the prestigious Monocle Magazine.

In the last two years this magazine launched a summer newspaper, called “Monocle Mediterraneo”, and our young entrepreneur company appears in the Business/Inspirations section.

From here we thank Monocle and we leave a capture of the section and we present the full transcription of the article.

 

tripNETer’s favourite spanish movies – Top 5 list!

Long time ago we promised you a post about spanish movies.  Spain has marvelous movies to offer, performers and directors, that show us cool places all over Spain.

The list below comprehends just 5 of our favourite movies. Just a taste of what Spanish cinema can evoke:  images of passion, colour, and a visual veracity in such great places all over Spain:

5) La comunidad 

Holiday Rent Club in Spain

A few hundred years ago a fleet of famous adventurers started their trip from Spain and found the Americas. Nowadays, more than 50 million tourists visit and enjoy the Mediterranean country, the second-largest tourist destination in the world.

Here at, Holiday rent Club, we conducted a small research on the Spanish market and found some very interesting data that are represented in the cool infographic. We are proud that we are focusing on this market by offering over 3000 vacation rentals to our travellers.

There was a small stagnation in the Spanish tourism growth in the past few years due to the economic crisis, but lately, Spain is topping the charts by number of visitors, hotel overnights, tourism bills etc. Destinations like Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Sevilla are one of the most attractive places that you can visit in Europe right now.

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Batman Street Art in Spain

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is nowadays on everyone’s lips, and matching up with the world Premiere of the new movie of the comic heroe,  we can find in Plaza de Callao, one of the most crowded squares in Madrid, a little art surprise:

But also we can find an huge Batman logo cut into a field of crops in Sant Boi de Lluçanés near Barcelona: