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A bronze bust of Catalan painter Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, mounted on a marble plinth, is located on the Pine Walk in Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca. Barcelona-born Anglada Camarasa was prominent in the Post-Impressionism art movement, and moved to Mallorca in 1914, marking a shift in his work towards painting landscapes. He lived in Puerto Pollensa for many years, except for a Read more...
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The annual La Vaquilla del Ángel festival in the city of Teruel, Spain, is celebrated over the weekend closest to July 10th, continuing until late on the Monday evening. Part of the wider Fiestas del Ángel celebrations in Teruel, dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Santo Ángel Custodio (or Holy Guardian Angel), La Vaquilla, draws large crowds to Read more...
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The Monument to the Sardana in Barcelona’s Sants-Montjuïc district is by Spanish sculptor Josep Cañas, located at plaça de la Sardana near Montjuïc castle. It depicts eight dancers carved from Ulldecona limestone, holding hands held aloft in a circle, performing the traditional Catalan dance la sardana. In the centre, a rock from Montserrat mountain symbolises personal belongings such as bags Read more...
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La Tomatina tomato-throwing festival is held in the town of Buñol in the province of Valencia, Spain, on the last Wednesday of August each year. The hour-long tomato throwing frenzy in the town square and surrounding streets is part of a week of festivities in Buñol, and has its origins in a spontaneous tomato fight that started during a parade Read more...
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Real Betis Balompié football club plays its home games at Estadio Benito Villamarín in the Heliópolis district of the city of Seville, Spain. Real Betis has played at the stadium since it opened in 1929, later gaining ownership in 1961 and renaming it after the club’s president, Benito Villamarín. In 1997, it was renamed Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, after Read more...
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The main river running through Valladolid, Spain, is the Pisuerga, which flows in a southwesterly direction through the city. A tributary, the Esgueva river, enters Valladolid from the east along a man-made channel and converges with the Pisuerga in the north of the city. The 283-kilometer (or 176-mile) long Pisuerga originates some 145 kilometres (or 90 miles) north of Valladolid Read more...
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The headquarters and main production studios of Spain’s state-owned public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (or RTVE), are located at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón, to the west of Madrid. Opened in 1964, the complex houses the production facilities of RTVE subsidiaries Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE), along with broadcast archives and corporate offices. TVE’s news Read more...
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Circuito de Jerez hosted the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix five times from 1986 to 1990 and staged the European Grand Prix races in 1994 and 1997. From 1991 onwards, the Spanish Grand Prix moved to the new Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, near Barcelona, where it continues to be held. The Jerez circuit museum features various Formula 1 related Read more...
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The nearest hotels to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya race track are the Ibis Barcelona Montmelo Granollers Hotel and the Holiday Inn Express Barcelona – Montmeló. Both hotels are located next to each other in an industrial zone on the eastern boundary of the circuit, just two minutes’ walk from Gate 3 behind the main grandstand. Neither hotel offers a shuttle Read more...
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American singer Bing Crosby died at La Moraleja Golf Club in Alcobendas, near Madrid, Spain, on October 14th, 1977, at the age of 74. He was returning to the clubhouse after a round of golf on the 18-hole course when he collapsed outside having suffered a massive heart attack. Despite efforts to revive him, he was declared dead at the Read more...
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There are 365 steps leading up to the small Calvary Oratory chapel in Pollensa. The base of the Calvary Steps is located next to Pollensa Town Hall and is found by following the street that runs along the left side of the church on Pollensa town square. In the silent Davallament religious ceremony held on Good Friday each year, a Read more...