Where to stay in Barcelona

Barcelona is one of the principal Spanish cities. It has the widest offer of free time, cultural, gastronomic … The true thing is that it is a city in which persons of many nationalities live together: students, businessmen … In a city like this one, it is not strange that we meet the widest hotel offer.

Of course, if we speak about hotels in Barcelona, it is necessary to bear in mind that we are going to find a lot of possibilities, between which we can choose depending on our personal tastes, of the quantity of money that we can spend, of the time that we arrange … From the trips blog we tell you some of the most interesting alternatives.

• In Barcelona and surroundings you can find many rural houses in farmhouses and ancient buildings, surrounded with beautiful sceneries (of which there are many in Barcelona, it is necessary to recognize it). You can find interesting offers with a few quite accessible prices.
• Inside the same city, you can find big hotels quantity, so much central (for example, in the same Square of the Cathedral you have the Hotel Columbus; or the Hotel Gallery, in the Boulevard) as in the business areas (the Amister Barcelona is 5 minutes ahead of the Conference hall)
• Barcelona has also many hotels de luxe. They are of five stars, like the HC He marries Fuster, with an impressive modernist interior design, or the Hotel Ritz Barcelona, with a reputation that endorses him throughout the years.
• Also there are cheap hotels and hotels of minor category, of one or two stars, which are enough good. Although they have less luxuries, they have the necessary serviceability and sometimes they are very well placed. For example, the Hotel Of a count, the Hotel Husa Mesón Castile are some of them.

The truth there is that one of the principal advantages of a city as Barcelona, is that has the widest hotels offer between, that be surely that you find one who adapts himself perfectly to what you need.

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Weekend escapes

Occasionally, it comes well to do a weekend escape to disconnect a little of the routine of the everyday life, the stress, the obligations … There Are a lot of possibilities of finding places to visit in two days, bearing in mind that there is no a lot of time to go too much background; but the sufficient one to enjoy impressive places.

From the trips blog, we tell you some of the most interesting alternatives.

• He makes use of the cheap flights of the companies low cost and travels to an European city that too much background is not. In more or less a pair of hours you can demolish London, Rome, Milan, Venice … Is interesting that before the trip you do a list to yourself with the most important points of the city, or that more it is interesting to you to see, since it will not exceed you too much time and you will have to choose. But good, you can always return in another escapadita.
• The rural tourism is another good option. There are many rural houses placed in really beautiful places, from which you will be able to enjoy impressive sceneries. Also, it is the perfect option to go with your couple or in a group of friends, distributing the price of the house sure between all (they usually have several rooms) that economic enough goes out for you.
• A weekend from aventur to can turn into something unforgettable. An escape of weekend that includes a route on horseback, a walk in go-cart or an activity of white-water rafting, for example, is a very advisable alternative.
• A weekend in a Spanish city, like Toledo, Seville, Saragossa, Barcelona … is also a way of changing airs and of knowing new places of Spain, and too much background does not go. And …: why not a spa or a hotel with Spa?

Insurance that, you go where you go, to enjoy of an unforgettable weekend.

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Guidebook of Sicily

Sicily is a really beautiful island, with a very special character. Undoubtedly, one of the nicest places of Italy, in which it is possible to enjoy a magnificent historical legacy, in addition to unforgettable sceneries.

How to come

One of the most rapid forms of coming to Sicily is to do it in plane, although it is true that, in contrast to which it happens with some cities of Italy, like Rome or Milan, it is not so simple to find flights that take us to some of the principal airports of Sicily: in Palermo and in Catania.

Also, there are different companies of ferry (traghetti) that communicate Sicily with the Italian Peninsula, another possible combination. And although Sicily is an island, also it is possible to come to her in train, of course, happening for the strait (undoubtedly, a very interesting experience)

What to see in Sicily

It is very difficult to choose between a lot of possibilities that there offers us an island as Sicily, in which the history is present to every step. From the trips blog, we leave to you a selection of some of the most important points of the island.

• Palermo is the capital, a very advisable visit. To cover his streets is the best way of knowing it. He is worth visiting the Catacombs of the Capuchins, in which there are mummies, some of them in the good surprising state. Also, the Palace of the Normans, or the Arab Cathedral, there are two of the most interesting points of the city.
• Other of the places that we cannot allow visiting is Catania, that the UNESCO declared Patrimony of the Humanity. It is a question of a place that it has seen like the action of the Etna, a volcás whose sight is impressive, it was burying important historical remains. Nevertheless, we can still visit the remains of the theater and of the amphitheater, the Basilica of San Nicolás, or the palace Biscari.
• The most ancient city of Sicily is Syracuse, a Greek colony established by Arquías. In the year 2005 the UNESCO named Patrimony of the Humanity to Syracuse, along with the Necropolis of Pantalías, another point emphasized from the island. In Syracuse he emphasizes the Greek theater, of which only there stay remains of the scene and of the orchestra. The latomías, stones quarries that were used like prison, are very close and deserve a visit. The Cathedral or the Basilica of extra Saint Lucia Moenia (an impressive Byzantine church) are also impressive monuments of the city.
• Agrigento is also a beautiful place, in which there lived the classic philosopher Empédocles or the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Also, it has also important classic remains, like the Temple of Juno Lacinia or the Temple of the Concord.

Of course, when we visit Sicily, a thing remains very clear: in only one trip is almost impossible to discover the big quantity of places that has to offer us.

Where to stay

The island of Sicily receives enough tourist visits, not only in summer (the perfect epoch to enjoy his beaches) but throughout the whole year, as what it has a wide hotel offer.

Hotels, apartments, rural houses … Sicily offers a really wide offer, with big quantity of possibilities of accommodation in Sicily and prices so that every tourist chooses the one that better adapts himself to his needs. Hotel Calculator is a good accommodation option. But if you want to compare prices we advise you this hotels comparador.

Guide of the cathedrals of France

Between many attractions of France, he emphasizes undoubtedly his rich and flourishing historical past. Certainly, if we speak about his cathedrals, quickly it occurs of the whole Notre Damme. And the fact is that it is a question of one of the big wealths of France, but not the only one.

In fact, there are several really impressive cathedrals, with the proper elements of the Gothic art: the veined vaults, the ogival arches, the enormous rose windows … the artistic manifstaciones of a few men who were praying with his constructions, which raise, still today, how enormous stone prayers.

• Amiens is a cathedral of a really impressive size, which demonstrates the big knowledge of the builders and of the craftsmen who were employed at her. His ship rests on 126 props, which in the exterior are reinforced by flying buttresses, giving form to a really impressive set. In his interior, he is worth stopping to contemplate the chairs of the choir.
• The cathedral of Reims, in which the kings of France were crowned, stands out for his magnificence and for his enormous rose window, and has a shop window of recognized Marc Chagall, in the last chapel of the rear part, with a representation of Biblical scenes.
• In Strasbourg, we will find the highest cathedral of France, and continuing towards the west, will come to Chartres, a beautiful place. The vitrales of this big cathedral cover a 2601 square meters whole, and he emphasizes the rose window of the west, in which podems to find a representation of the Last Judgement, one of the scenes that usually recur in this type of religious building. He emphasizes also the representation of the tree of Jesé, with the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
• And finally, we come to Paris, to Notre Damme. Undoubtedly, a visit that nobody who visits Paris must get lost. Sainte Chapelle is an impressive place, not in vain it called it itself the entry to the paradise.

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Museums in the Vatican City

The Vatican, the smallest State of the world, is one of the places that makes all his impressed visitors. Under the attentive alertness of the Guard Switzerland, the life in the Vatican is unrolled between tourists' comings and goings of the whole world. And immense most of them, do not leave the Vatican without visiting the Museums Vaticanos.

Of course, a detail to be born in mind: the lines that form to gain access to the museums are impressive, therefore almost it is more advisable to buy the tickets across Internet (entering the web biglietteriamusei.vatican.va). Of course, it will be necessary to pay four more euros, but he is worth avoiding the line.

Other of the important details is to remember that to enter the Museums and it is necessary to take the shoulders and the knees to the Basilica covered and not too much pay share.

Once done all this, we can enter the museums, which are really impressive. Two plants have, and several rooms that it exists that they cover in a pre-established order: Museums and Collections, Pontifical Palaces and Basilica of San Pedro. Along this trip, which can last several hours, we will be able to appreciate works of art of the whole history: from the Egyptian antiquities (there is a mummy wrapped in a shroud of linen), happening for Christian antiquities, pictorial works of Rafael, Perugino or Caravaggio; modern religious art …
On having come to the Basilica of San Pedro, place in which one buried this apostle, we will discover a really impressive space. From the porch of the church, one gains access to the Caves Vaticanas, the place in which many popes are buried, between them Juan Pablo II.

And from the city of the Vatican, it is possible to do a very advisable visit: to visit the Castel Sant Angelo, visiting the museum and the fortitude that served as refuge to the popes in war times.

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Denmark and Oslo: the legacy of the Vikings

Denmark has many things to be seen. Just as Oslo, in Norway. But if there is something that these two places have in common, it is the presence of the Vikings, a past that left his traces, which today we can still visit.

The true thing is that the Vikings have turned into a legend species, and sometimes the borders between the reality and the imagination of difuminan a little … But what yes is true is that these warriors were assaulting the coastal populations (not in vain they were been afraid by many) and they turned into a few expert navigators. They were capable of constructing impressive ships and of sailing along the seas in the most unfortunate conditions.

And nevertheless, they managed to cross remote waters and come up to the north Europe, occupying the North of Great Britain, France, Iceland … But undoubtedly, Denmark keeps really valuable traces of his presence. In fact, Ribe, the most ancient city of Denmark, has the Museum Viking, in whom we can find jewels of big value that they speak to us about the culture vikinga and everything what it meant.
Also, we can see a reproduction of a people Viking in the Center Viking of Ribe, in an archaeological emplacement of the VIIIth century, in which there can be seen some of the activities that the people Viking was carrying out. And the fact is that a strong bequeathed Viking keeps Denmark.

Not in vain, they were the founders of Alborg, which is to the north of Denmark, approximately 1300 years ago. Also it has a museum in which it is possible to see the remains Vikings in the area and something very interesting, which gives us idea of how it was the idea of the death and the rites concerning her that the Vikings were following, since it has several emplacements with graves vikingas.

Pero Noruega, Oslo in particular, is other of the places in which the trace of the Vikings is still present strongly, and which we can visit from Alborg. There we will be able to enjoy the Museum of the Ship Viking, in whom there are three wooden ships with his respective heads of dragons (one shows more than interesting of how important the navigation was for this people), which were rescued of a fjord; and of a particular vision of the world of the Vikings: VikingLandet.

It is a question of a thematic park in which an establishment and a port is reproduced, with actors disguised as Vikings and big quantity of activities that allow us to know the culture vikinga of a lively form (between them, to sail in a ship Viking)

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Where to stay in Amsterdam

Amsterdam is a really advisable destination. There is no doubt that it has the widest cultural, artistic offer and of free time to offer the visitors. Due to the big inflow of tourism that it has, it offers us a big hotels quantity.

Of course, it is true that as for the prices, they are slightly higher than in our country. Sometimes, it can turn out to be more advisable to stay at a population they surround to and to move up to the city, since to find a hotel well of price and in the center of Amsterdam is not an easy task. Haarlem, Diemen or Weesp, for example, are some of the places at which to stay.

Also, it is necessary to bear in mind that the services and serviceability of the Hotels in Amsterdam not always correspond to those that we would have in our country. Frequently this is because they are in historical buildings, which not always can reform.
The most economic areas are those who are concerning Centraal Station, up to the square Dam, where we will be able to find hotels for approximately 50 or 70 euros.

A way of finding accommodation in Amsterdam if you do not go with a reserved hotel, it is to ask in the tourist information offices, in which they will be able to inform you about some quite advisable hotels.

Many of the hotels of Amsterdam are formed from the houses union, for what the space is not too wide, a problem that we are going to find in many hotels of Amsterdam.

In any case, other one of the possible options is that of staying at a hostel, sharing the room with more persons (a form of accommodation that the young people chooses very much, since it turns out to be more economic enough)

In any case, the truth is that Amsterdam has many hotels, so sure that you find the one that adapts himself to your needs.

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