by Susana | Jan 30, 2020 | Spanish culture & Tips
COURTYARD FESTIVAL IN CORDOBA Every year on May (2020 is from 4 to 17 of May), in Cordoba they celebrate the Courtyard Festival, this is unique opportunity to enjoy the private Courtyards and way of life of this historical city of Andalusia. During the Courtyards Festival, you’ll discover Cordoba’s lively side. Join in on the street celebrations and dance to the sounds of Flamenco while enjoying the scents of jasmine and orange blossom. The people of Cordoba proudly open the gates of the courtyards in the old quarter of the city during the days of the festival. They deck the courtyards out specially for the occasion with pots full of geraniums, carnations and jasmines that hang from the whitewashed walls. They can be visited at practically any time of the day and the hosts always give a warm welcome. There are often even flamenco shows and the chance to taste delicious tapas from Cordoba and Montilla-Moriles wine. The festival is celebrated during the first fortnight of May. It is not, however, the only chance you will have to visit the courtyards in Cordoba. This is a great opportunity to combine an event in Seville, Malaga or Granada with a full day excursion to this magnificent city of Andalusia and enjoy the most authentic side of Cordoba way of life and courtyards in their most explendit moment. Here we can combine the visit to the Courtyards with the Great Mosque-Cathedral and the old town of Cordoba. Cordoba is situated in the interior of Andalusia where past and modernity blend in together. This thousand-year-old city, which has the World Heritage designation, is a living...
by Susana | Oct 10, 2019 | New Venues, Sustainability
Eco friendly Sustainable hotel This four star hotel is in the middle of a wheat field, near the Natural Park in Navarra. The desert, the sunrise, the moon, the stars, its spectacular architecture and design. This Unique hotel has won twenty six prizes of Architecture and Interior Design. Space. The hotel is located in the Bardenas Reales Natural Park, in the heart of Navarra, declared a biosphere reserve by Unesco; This place of semi-desert landscape is an unusual spectacle of naked appearance but full of natural treasures that make it a very rich place. The weather here is measured by the air, which is transformed into dry and warm air in the summer months, more typical of the African desert than of northern Spain or the empty, cold and sharp air during winters so common in polar areas. A perfect place to dream and be dreamed where this ecological hotel lives as a whim of the nature of the place, in its image and likeness, a body in a sustainable hotel with a unique architecture that has given it different awards internationally. There are two types of space at the Hotel: the cube spaces and the bubble rooms, all of them built with a sustainable architecture and respecting the environment. The rooms are characterized by taking advantage of the light of the place to the maximum through large windows, so much so that in the 31 rooms, the symbiosis with nature is a fact and at times you can doubt whether you are inside or outside. The sky full of stars. The sound of the nature. Hear and feel the wind whispering. The sun rising. Taste a different moment. Basically...
