Video visit to Seville

Finally! Here is the video of our visit to Seville. The video shows some of the most interesting places to see in Seville, the city is really worth a visit. The weather is usually warm and sunny and the city itself is awesome.
Here are some images of the Cathedral and the Giralda Tower, the Tower of Gold (Torre del Oro), the Triana barrio and bridge and some other outstanding sights. We have prepared two other videos with a virtual visit to the Reales Alcázares Palace, an incredible Palace, mixture of Arabic and Christian architectures, and another video of Plaza de España (Square of Spain), an amazing square. Hope you enjoy our videos!



Seville travel tips
More information about Seville in our Tour Spain Travel Guide of Seville
Use our interactive map of Seville to plan your trip, locate all the monuments, build your itinerary and find accommodation and restaurants.

Sculpture exhibition in Salamanca

Here is an excellent plan for sculpture lovers visiting Spain in 2007. In the ancient city of Bejar, located in the South of Salamanca (200 kilometres from Madrid) you can enjoy, until the end of this year, an amazing exhibition of sculpture in the framework of a homage to the Spanish sculptor Mateo Hernandez. 57 years after the sculptor's death, the city that hosts his museum celebrates a contest of sculpture. Here is a video of the sculpture exhibition that you can see in Béjar.

Amazing Spanish traditions

Corpus Christi is a popular festivity celebrated in villages all over Spain. One of the most amazing ways of celebrating this day is the procession of the men of moss (hombres de musgo in Spanish), where a group of men and women walk the streets covered from head to toes with moss. The moss oufits are really heavy and warm so bearing them during the 4 hours of the parade is quite a challenge.
This particular Spanish custom takes place in Béjar, a village of the region of Salamanca.

Beautiful Seville

I've just landed back home after a wonderful week of holiday in Southern Spain. Andalusia is a beautiful region to discover, here you can view an example, have a look at our pictures from Seville, you will fall in love with this city!
Pictures from Seville in Flickr

Upcoming events in Spain

Summer is right around the corner, in Spain kids will soon finish school and its's time to think of travel and holiday. There are also important events, fiestas and celebrations that will take place during the next months in Spain, here is a summary of some events you may be interested in if you travel to Spain.

San Fermin

A popular Spanish song reminds everyone of the date of the San Fermin celebration in Pamplona:

Uno de enero, dos de febrero, tres de marzo, cuatro de abril, cinco de mayo, seis de junio,

siete de julio San Fermin,

A Pamplona hemos de ir, con una boina, con una boina,

a Pamplona hemos de ir, con una bota y un calcetín.

The running the bulls in Pamplona is an extremelly popular fiesta, especially among foreigners visiting Spain, and you can hear Spaniards complaining every year about how irresponsible tourists are running in front of the bulls without any preparation or knowledge of the city and the event, something that is important, to avoid being hit by the bulls.

San Fermín celebrations will take place in Pamplona on July the 7th and during all that week in July. Be ready to find thousands and thousands of tourists and youngster from all over Spain who gather in Pamplona every year for the event. Remember to take with you a white tee-shirt and a red scarf around the neck, everyone will be wearing that! And be ready to drink a lot of wine!

Gay Pride day in Madrid

The gay pride will be celebrated in Madrid during the last week of june, it is not one the most traditional fiestas but it will surely be a fiesta worth seeing, more information about this event visit the Europride 2007 website

Corpus Christi

This is a celebration of religious origin. June the 12th will be a holiday in many Spanish cities.

There will be many other celebrations taking place in Spain so we'll keep an eye on what's going on.

Ready to explore Andalusia

I am preparing to travel to the South of Spain. The last week has been pretty cold and cloudy in Spain, but it seems that the good weather is back this weekend, and I am ready to try the famous beaches of Andalusia.
I'll be travelling to Seville and Malaga next week. I hope to visit the famous Nerja, my friends have told me that it's beautiful but I haven't been there yet. We'll be gathering some useful information fot the Tour Spain Travel Guides website too.
Our first stop in the Andalusia tour will be Seville, which is the capital of the region and the largest city in Andalusia, from there we will be travelling to the city of Malaga, famous beach resort of the South of Spain, and then finally to the coast of Nerja and Torrox. We'll keep you updated with the best places sto visit, we'll be posting photos and more information soon.

Just back from holiday in Santander

I'm just back from a short but fullfilling holiday in wonderful Santander. The weather in Spain has been pretty bad during the easter week (with snow in inland Spain and all), but lukilly enough the north of Spain was sunny and warm. So I had a great time visiting friends and exploring the amazing Cantabria.
The city of Santander was packed with people enjoying the holiday, so I preferred to move to less crowded parts of Cantabria. I went to Liencres beach, which is a nature park and has a great beach with dunes, and I also walked up to la Picota, a small mountain just by the beach of Liencres with amazing views over the Santander bay and the coast. An amazing experience.
Have a look at the pictures in the Tourspain Photoalbum or in our Flickr photos

Easter Procession in Salamanca

In Spain Easter is lived in a very religious way. During the Easter days you will see Processions in the streets of most Spanish cities, you may find them a bit strange at the beginning but Processions are really an important part of the Spanish culture.
Here is a video of one of the first processions of 2007. The Christ of Forgiveness Procession in Salamanca which took place this evening, and here it is, straight from the streets of Salamanca.

Miss Spain 2007

the new Mis Spain 2007 was chosen last night. The winner of the competition to officially become Spain's most beautiful woman was Miss Guipuzcoa, Natalia Zabala. The two finalists were Adriana Reverón, Miss Tenerife and Nerea Arce, Miss Bizcaia.

I was watching the competition last night on the TV and I must admit that my favourite was Miss Tenerife, but any of the 12 finalist was worth the title.

If you are wondering what the Spanish "misses" look like, have a look at this page with the pictures of all the candidates to Miss Spain 2007

Spanish fiestas and celebrations

Spring begins tomorrow and in Spain it's time for Fiestas and Celebrations.

Yesterday the Fallas were buried in Valencia. An amazing tradition worth seeing if you're in Spain and even worth the trip to Spain itself.

Fallas are the most important celebration in Valencia, they take place in March 19th. Huge paper and cardboard statues are build every year showing the most current events in Spain that year, everything from politics to gossip from the tabloids is critizised and made public in this huge statues which are burnt on March 19th, in a celebration of fire and purification.

Semana Santa is on the corner, celebrations begining in two weeks in most cities of Spain, and in contrast with this religious celebration, Sevilla's Feria de Abril will be starting also in April 24th. Enjoy the Spanish celebrations!