Rooms with views to bottom of the sea

The bottom of the sea, the last frontier, was developed for the opening of the luxury resort Hydropolis in Dubai. 20 meters underwater, is a resort with 260 hectares devoted to shops, restaurants and 220 suites with glass walls and bathrooms overlooking the deep Gulf. With a futuristic look and style curved roofs of the Oceanographic of Valencia, the hotel plans to open its doors this summer after several delays. Its budget is 470 million euros. The room rate is estimated at about 1,200 euros per night. Also a resort, but more manageable proportions, is the Poseidon Opened earlier this year on an island in Fiji. To reach what its owners call “the mysterious island of Poseidon“You have to fly to Nadi airport, where a uniformed employee transports guests on a twin-engine airplane. The building, whose 70 percent is transparent, is connected to the surface to be free from underwater pressure, making it accessible all. A week there costs 12,000 euros per person and includes two nights underwater and four in a beachfront villa, in addition to the transfers, a mini-submarine expedition and other extras.

For an underwater experience more discreet, the Huvafen Fushi Resort Atoll located in the north of the island of Male (Maldives), has a treatment area underwater. This is the Aquum Spa, two meters deep, with walls of glass. Its minimalist design, light colors and clean lines, is signed by Philippe Starck and the star leaves the underwater life around it.

Escape to Catalonia in the summer and meet her by land, sea and air

The Catalan community has much to offer visitors, from a visit to the most remote enclaves of Costa Brava even the possibility of practicing one of the most demanding sports in recent times, golf, or visit the best preserved Roman ruins Tarragona.

All this can be done in different ways and gives us some ideas about Catalonia by land, sea and air. One option offered is to know the people of the Costa Brava a Cadillac series 62 coupe, 1955 or a Cadillac El Dorado convertible, 1966. Everyone can choose the itinerary to perform possible routes. Both are based on Pineda del Mar but reaches Tossa de Mar through Blanes and Lloret de Mar while a second route concludes in Franciac, where it is possible for a golf pitch & put to play with a traditional Catalan farmhouse in the background. The price of these routes is 520 €, and includes the rental car for three hours, a driver and guide, and a meal for two people.

Sea lovers have the opportunity to take a walk in 4 hours Dufour 40 accompanied by an expert sailor, and where they can take the controls of ship and take a dip in the middle of Mediterranean. The price is 200 € for two people and part from Mataro (Barcelona).

And those who want to simulate the birds get their chance to board helicopter, Through which they can discover the Medieval Tarragona. The planned route flying over the village Altafulla where you can see the Marques de Tamarit castle and continues by the nature of Poblet to contemplate the Prades mountains and the Cistercian Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet. Finally, the air route is 5 hours passing through the Santes Creus declared a national monument. This experience of vertigo can be enjoyed at a price of 1820 € for 5 people.

Towns and legends Tietar Valley

The truth is that the media exaggerated a tad. Or not, but the impression of the news was tremendous. Last summer there were fires in the Valley of Tiétar, there were two deaths. 4,000 hectares were burnt in high and remote area, it represents 0.5 percent of the surface of the Gredos Regional Park, which is a fraction, in turn, the width and smiling Tiétar Valley. But tourism has suffered, and that is unfair. The mountain is only the edge of a region as diverse as extensive. Lying as a canvas in the midday sun, and protected his back by the wall of Gredos. That makes it there, even in winter, the weather is mild, orange blossom, lemon, fig, pomegranate, grapes, olives, Mediterranean almonds, prickly pears and increasingly, the palm trees.

In fact, the sign of the enclave is conventional and inaccurate. It is not one but many valleys. And very different. Perhaps to make amends, maps distinguish between Upper and Lower Tiétar (but do not trust the High is low and flat, while the Under is crossed by mountain roads). In any case, the glue of all these valleys and small valleys, tall or short, is the landscape (or landscape). So no wonder you have come to graze in their beauty a good flock of literati. Cela De Unamuno, through Baroja, Juan Ramón, Leon Felipe, Maranon Benavente.

And what usually happens when there is through literature: the literary gap. One thing is what you dream of poets, and quite another daily. The exalted folk architecture, for example, now have to look very closely. The villas have grown faster than Lanzahita studs, which is saying something.

The tranquility of yesteryear, They breathed who invented the Summer, Has been transformed (and that’s not bad) in a frenzy of mountaineers, hikers, campers, bikers … Active tourism has become the watchword, the redeeming formula, the Word made flesh. Cheli said in plan: another tourism is possible.

In case there was doubt Tiétar Valley (Upper) starts, coming from Madrid, at Santa Maria del Tiétar, which seems to urbanization of Madrid. Sotillo de la Adrada is more of the same, and big. What would the Benavente Ladyma, or Baroja Wandering Lady if they saw what had become the scenes of separate works. The Adrada is something else. Especially when hanging from the castle hill, which have been restored (redoneWould be more accurate) five years ago and paying visits. At the entrance of the village have managed a palm-lined promenade, which apparently is one in Alicante.

Piedralaves took advantage of the passage of Cela, and the compliments he lectured in Jews, Moors and Christians: “Linda and tiny like a flower“(As in”Avila Andalusia“Or”Spanish Switzerland“And it seemed worse). Piedralaves is not tiny, has been a pioneer of tourism in the region, and only keeps a few streets and old houses in its upper part. More fortunate was Pedro Bernardo.’s Official title Balcony Tiétar obvious. Here is preserved architecture a little more authentic, with passageways and alleys in a step-impossible for cars-and a muffled speech from 14 sources, as scored in Ciro Bayo The traveler entertained. Is still a donkey, but many more quads the devil, and people in bars, talk a lot about horses.

The prologue Arenas de San Pedro is Ramacastanas and Eagle Cave, a well-operated business, every half hour, every day of the year. Arenas look like a city if one runs red light at traffic lights down the street / road. But not a shadow of what it was. Its origin is in the forges of Avila, when the iron crosses the medieval bridge (not Roman) road from the ports of the mountains. The constable Davalos up at the end of XIV, the castle which would then at the hands of Don Alvaro de Luna, when he sliced his head, his widow, Juana Pimentel, sent its letters like “the Sad Countess“, and that’s the nickname he inherited the castle. Not much to see inside.

Opposite, on a hill, the Infante Don Luis, brother of Charles III, started to build a palace to cope with an exile for marrying a skill unequal in rank and 32 years younger. It was an educated man, and brought the likes of Goya, who painted half a dozen family portraits, or Luigi Boccherini, the musician came in 1778, and in the eight years he spent in composing his Arenas Stabat Mater, Six symphonies and quintets opus 30, in Boccherini’s Tavern, next to the Gothic church, as well as remind prepare a casserole of mushrooms as exquisite as its music (the palace unfinished, is being restored).

At the exit from Arenas, a stroll along the creek Avellaneda leads to the Monastery of San Pedro de Alcantara. The saint was the confessor of St. Teresa, who said of him that seemed made of branches, a saint who was getting rain if there was drought, and crossed the river walking on the water to go to another monastery of El Palancar, land Caceres. The place is delicious, the chapel where her remains were traced by Ventura Rodriguez, assisted by Sabatini, and the museum that administer the seven surviving brothers worthwhile for one who loves painting and religious carvings.

For there amounts to Valley or Barranco de las Cinco Villas, perhaps the most picturesque Tietar as landscape. Of the five villas (all last name “Valley“), Santa Cruz, San Esteban and Villarejo have lost much of its traditional architecture. Cuevas del Valle, for its part, is crisscrossed by a Roman road that was not important, but is the best preserved of all. Both, has continued to be used over the centuries as a real canyon (the Leon West), precisely the origin of caves is in the shrine, beside the road, where nomadic herders fulfilled their religious duties.

The navel of this valley is Mombeltrán, with a fifteenth century castle that looks very wide: a facade. Behind the Puerto del Pico de Gredos climbing the wall, the Unamuno called “Castilla ceiling and stone heart of Spain“. George Borrow,”Don Huey of the Bible “Crossed the eastern massif in 1836 and claimed that in their lakes swarming monsters and serpents as long as a pine was a popular belief that Baroja also collected and other writers. Two years earlier, in 1834, Gregory Aznar and six colleagues conducted the first Cruise reflected in a story published.

To reach the Under Tiétar must overcome many mountain curves. Pit Poyales allows a break. The air is already more Caceres. And much more Candeleda, whose streets and houses are typical of La Vera, looking like a ghetto. There is a toy museum, the oldest in Poyales and another very recent Candeleda, “the Casa de las Flores“Created by Luis Figuerola-Ferretti (the Dona María radio) and some friends.

About 10 miles Candeleda is El Raso, the call Route Vettones and Pastors. What of the pastors is clear from the goats that cross like crazy through the road of Vettones it is also clear if one climbs a couple of kilometers to the Celtic which lies in a fold of Pico Almanzor. From there take another string of the glen real. And if one chews more, what you see are wild goats, who jump on the peaks overlooking the valley Tietar.

Air France offers direct flights from Paris to Vietnam

The French airline has signed a code share agreement Vietnam Airlines by offering three weekly direct flights from the airport of Paris Charles de Gaulle to the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh.

These flights will be operated by Vietnam Airlines and bind to the routes already have Air France to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh with scale Bangkok. This will increase the number of flights to the Vietnamese cities up to 6 times a week in the case of Paris-Hanoi and up to 7 in the case of Paris-Ho Chi Minh.

Moreover, since the winter of 2010, Air France connects non-stop Ho Chi Minh Paris, three times a week and in November 2010, the route Vietnam shall be operated nonstop flights.

As for the price of the tickets is from 653 euros each way

Famous landmarks Monte Carlo town

It’s easy to consider a Monte Carlo town as just a tax haven and an expensive place designed just for millionaires, but the city has much more to offer than this vague image of wealth. To begin with, enjoys a spectacular location as part of Monaco, a tiny principality on the Mediterranean.

In the heart of the city is Monaco-Ville, Place du Palais where the grand palace houses belonging to the legendary Grimaldi family. The turbulent family history, studded with glamorous, tragedy and drama, adds a touch of color to Monte Carlo and helps maintain the mysticism of the city. The skyline looks more Manhattan than Mediterranean and the port is full of luxury yachts.

The Monaco Grand Prix Formula 1 and Rally of Monte Carlo are the two most famous landmarks.

Yorkshire in the summer

Some of the most important Yorkshire are Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Hull, And logically York. Although not the only thing to see, here the urbanites have a perfect hideaway where to shop, enjoy cooking classes with professional or just an excuse to see some of the most interesting museums in England as the Jorvik Viking Centre in York Museum of the Bronte parsonage in Haworth, Home of the writers Charlotte and Emily Bronte.

But a visit to Yorkshire is well worth a stroll through the countryside and smaller towns. Some of the places where the photo is essential are the Scarborough Castle more than 2,500 years, the Roche Abbey in South Yorkshire, set in a valley artificial tower Middleham Castle, One of the highest in England, the whole Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Gardens and, of course, Whitby Abbey where supposedly lived in Count Dracula during his visits to England, where, they say, is buried.

In addition, the county of Yorkshire offers several hiking for the more active. One of these pathways is that Dales High Way from Saltaire and reaches Appleby and covers more than 120 kilometers of nature, history and English culture, to return to Saltaire (declared World Heritage by UNESCO) by train.

The animal lovers have a place in Robin Hood’s Bay, Which has no relation to the famous thief of Sherwood Forest but has the Farsyde Riding Centre, which organizes Horse visits along the coast and forests of the area.

One of the easiest and cheapest ways to visit this English county is participating in the contest being organized by the tourist office in Yorkshire. Through it are drawn three trips inspired by literature, notably Wuthering Heights, Agatha Christie and Count Dracula.

Hesperia madrid hotel

Just beyond the historic center, Hesperia receives its visitors with a sophisticated and long reception decorated by renowned designer Pasqua Ortega. Ornamented with materials such as limestone and light wood, the hotel provides a soothing contrast to the bustling street outside Castellana and ends in a courtyard surrounded by light restaurant La Manzana and gardens, where you can listen to music on piano and harp Live in the afternoon. The carpeted rooms, although less impressive in terms of size and decoration, have all types of facilities, including a pillow menu to ensure that guests feel as if they were at home.

Gran hotel canarias

Plaza Canovas del Castillo, 4, Madrid, Spain

Former residence of a count, this completely restored hotel, one block from the Prado Museum, is a reasonable alternative but to luxurious five star hotels that are in this area. In the lobby and common areas can be found as a unique combination of brown leather sofa and chairs of time, but the rooms are spacious, with hand-painted ornaments canaries, brightly colored carpets from the Royal Factory of Tapestries and furniture wood. The green marble bathrooms with large mirrors and showers. The cafeteria is open to the public, is a magnet for transients.

Tryp ambassador hotel in madrid

Cuesta Santo Domingo 5 and 7, Madrid, Spain

In an ancient street between Gran Via and the Royal Palace, the ambassador took the renovated XIX century palace of the Dukes of Granada. A magnificent front door and a charming three-story stairway reminisce aristocratic building, the rest has been transformed into stylish accommodation, but a little blank, preferred by executives. The guest rooms have spacious living rooms, mahogany furniture and floral fabrics. The restaurant greenhouse full of plants and songbirds, is especially pleasant on a cold day.

In-hotel: restaurant, bar, airport shuttle, parking (fee). AE, DC, MC, V.

Museum of Iron – Spanish ironwork is concerned

One of the best museums in the world in terms of Spanish ironwork is concerned.

Located in the old town, the Museum of Iron is a building of 800 square meters fully integrated in the environment whose main objective is to bring the iron work of the public.

It created from the private collection of Luis Elvira, sampled over its nearly five hundred pieces, raising the blacksmith to the highest levels, when the office ceases to be to become singular artistic expression.

It presents a variety of pieces of various kinds, from kitchen utensils to jewelry and from the twelfth to the twentieth century. Our attentive visit we will understand and appreciate a range of objects that once were common use today, for the work that would make them, they would not price.