Monthly Archives: January 2011

Fulfill your dream in Barcelona

In the contemporary-art design center Monvinic no other player other than the wine and the entire universe on him. The same as it has in Vila Vinateca. If you’re thinking started in this unfathomable cosmos or already have experience, join one of the topics that will offer tastings and published monthly in their webs. Do you prefer a taste of the most prestigious wines or sparkling wine tasting or a more specific pairing of a particular wine region of Italy or Burgundy? Here sensations are stored in each bottle. Continue reading

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Palmyra, a classic dish in the world

From the capital, Damascus, we must have at least three hours a rocky and dusty villages to land on almost cinematic staging of Palmyra, the great caravan city that was incorporated into the Roman Empire and lived centuries of glory thanks to the transfer of goods and knowledge that flowed through the Silk Road from the depths of Asia to the Mediterranean ports. What remained of Palmira not overlooking the sea at all, but as already noted in the eighteenth Earl of Volney in his writings on the legendary cultures of the Middle East or Greece or Italy of antiquity left something comparable to what containing these ruins in the desert. Continue reading

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A cultural explosion lights Turku

If you recently proposed to Tallinn, the Estonian capital, for a break, now it’s the turn of the Finnish city of Turku, which shares the title of European Cultural Capital 2011. A destination unknown to most this year is going … Continue reading

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Celebrate Chinese New Year in Hong Kong

From 2 to 17 February in Hong Kong it seems paralyzed to celebrate Chinese New Year. A great feast was held in style in this city that symbolizes like no thrust of the new China.

The Chinese people are one of the most superstitious people on the planet, and this time it is usual to seek advice from psychics and geomancers, catering shamelessly even in the vicinity of temples. Do not even stop going with the whole family to some of the most popular, like the Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin and Man Mo, to ask for their wishes to the New Year or for the ancestors and gods by burning incense in his honor. Continue reading

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Your Destination Should Not Miss In 2011

Norwegian Polar Adventure
Norway celebrated in style in 2011 Nansen Amundsen year, when we celebrate the 150 anniversary of the famous polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen and the centennial of the expedition led by Norwegian Roald Amundsen to the South Pole on board the Fram. A good opportunity to meet also the spectacular new Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo, an imposing monument of steel and concrete that houses inside the Ski Museum, which will host the February 23 to March 6 will host some evidence World Ski Championships. Continue reading

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