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BUÑOL (VALENCIA): LA TOMATINA
If you happen to be in Valencia during the last week of August, you can participate in one of Spain’s messiest and most bizarre festivals. Held in the town of Buñol (about 40km west of Valencia on the N-111 highway and Madrid train line), La Tomatina is, believe it or not, a tomato throwing festival.
Buñol is an otherwise drab industrial...
MADRID: TINTORETTO 30 JANUARY – 13 MAY 2007
The Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid) is organising the exhibition "Tintoretto" which will include around 60 paintings and drawings loaned from European and American museums and institutions. The exhibition will be the first monographic exhibition devoted to the artist since the one held in Venice in 1937, as well as the first on this subj...
AMERICA'S CUP
WHAT IS IT ?
On 22 August 1851 the schooner America won a race around the Isle of Wight, England, for what was known as the 100 Guinea Cup. In 1857 the America syndicate donated the cup to its home club, the New York Yacht Club. In becoming the cup’s trustee, the NYYC promised to accept challenges from any other club wishing to compete...
PAELLA
Spain’s most famous dish - served throughout the country in various guises – takes its name from the wide, shallow, two-handled metal pan in which it’s cooked and served. Outside restaurants, it appears mainly on Sundays and holidays. Paella is best cooked on a wood fire outdoors – what better way to feed a crowd?
Paella evolved from the...
