Cádiz milenaria

CÁDIZ MILENARIA

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Cádiz es una de las ciudades más antiguas de Europa. Aunque hay muchos puntos de su historia antigua que no conocemos, se calcula que Cádiz debe tener unos 3.000 años de antigüedad.

San Fermín

La celebración de San Fermín en Pamplona, es una de las fiestas más internacionalmente conocidas de España. Buena parte de esta fama, es debido al autor americano Ernest Hemingway, y su obra “The sun also rises”, conocida en español como “Fiesta”.

Aunque la fiesta está dedicada a San Fermín y es de carácter religioso; hoy día los toros tienen mayor protagonismo en la celebración. A los españoles les encanta ver los encierros en la televisión o en directo, y son muchos los valientes que participan en estos.

San Fermín también es una fiesta de música, baile y bebida, elementos que no pueden faltar en cualquier celebración española.

A continuación puedes ver un vídeo con el primer encierro del año 2012.

¿Qué piensas de esta fiesta?
¿Y de que se usen toros?

Sierra Bermeja - Estepona

The three pics above share something, they have all been taken in Sierra Bermeja, the highest mountain of the Costa.

In Costa del Sol we do not just have the sunny beach we're famous for, but lovely mountains as well. In Sierra Bermeja the sights of the whole Costa is amazing. Up there you can visit the "regufio", a house for the lost mountaneers which is always open for the traveller. At weekends it also opens as a bar so you can get a coffee by the chimmeney.

No need to say the jewel of this paradyse is the Pinsapo, a prehistoric tree that still lives here since the last Ice Age. And how comes that a living fosile from that cold time is still living in the sunny Costa? Believe it or not, the back side of Sierra Bermeja (Back as it is facing North and not the sea) is so shady and wet that it reproduces the conditions for these trees to grow.

Semana Blanca - The White Week

Semana Blanca, which literally means white week, refers to the week after the Día de Andalucía, Andalusian Day, on the 28th of February.

Only children from Málaga get this holiday, specifically thought to give the chance to Málaga students to go skiing on the snow in Sierra Nevada (Granada).

Snow is quite typical in Spanish winters, however, not in all places. Sunny Spain don't see much of it and that's why we have to move to different places. Sierra Nevada, which is one of the best places in Europe to practice skiing or snowboarding, is not very far from Costa del Sol. In less than two hours you can change from sunbathing to skiing are there aren't many places in the world that can offer you that, are they?