Chic Shopping Tour

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Gemma García — No Comments ↓

Our insider shopping tours are designed to provide travelers with a behind-the-scenes shopping experience. Let us share with you Madrid shopping secrets, tips, and much more that only a trendy local know. This stroll provides everything you need for enjoying the side-by-side neighborhoods of Triball & Salamanca, the most exhilarating shopping destination in town. These ever-changing, fashion-forward districts are so expansive, they are best explored with an expert. This tour weaves through the streets targeting a special selection of INDEPENDENT clothing & accessory boutique worth visiting. Hidden gems that range from trendy luxury to chic bargain. Your fashion savy guide…

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A three day tour example

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Gemma García — No Comments ↓

Day 1: Morning: Guided walking tour of “Essential Madrid”. Lunch: Enjoy a traditional “tapas and stories” tour. Café Time: Let us relax watching the city´s activity and atmosphere from one of the Café terraces at Plaza de Oriente. Looking at the Royal Palace, spacious, and shady, the Plaza de Oriente is one of the most pleasant and frequented squares in Madrid. Like its counterpart, Trafalgar Square in London, almost every visitor to Madrid will pass through this plaza at least once during his stay. Afternoon: Visit of the Royal Palace, claimed to be the largest one in Western Europe. It…

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5 paintings from Las Meninas series by Picasso that you should check out

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Gemma García — No Comments ↓

It is a particular pleasure for me to introduce the guest post of my colleague Marta Laurent the best tour guide in Barcelona. Barcelona has the dynamic and open personality so typical of Mediterranean cities. It is the perfect city to relax in, stroll around and enjoy. Barcelona has its own way of life which makes it unique…but remember, you need and expert as Marta. In 1957 Picasso is living in a mansion near Cannes and he decides to shot himself in his workshop to work for months on a series of interpretations of the famous Las Meninas by Velázquez…

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Thyssen Boremisza “Gauguin and the voayage to the exotic”

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Gemma García — No Comments ↓

Today the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary. Thank you for bringing art to our lives! A new exibition ” Gauguin y el viaje a lo exótico “ starts tomorrow and will focus on the results of the artistic explorations undertaken by artists including Gauguin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee and Macke. It will also look at Gauguin’s influence on the German Expressionists and the French Fauves, emphasising his role as the creator of a new and exotic canon, the starting point for the avant-garde artistic idioms that arose in the early decades of the 20th century. Artists started to…

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Madrid´s bike culture

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Gemma García — No Comments ↓

Get to know Madrid´s new growing bike culture. It´s a perfect combination of the old and the new, ranging from historical monuments like the 16th century Segovia bridge to the most modern urban sports areas with a rock climbing center, a skatepark and an extreme cycling circuit. If you´re travelling with kids, No Worries!!, they won´t have time to be bored, not with the hill of slides, the tree trunk jungle and the super zip-line among many other play areas. There´s even a city beach. To top it off, you´ll have the best views of Madrid´s amazing monumental skyline. Duration…

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