Mountain hotel in the Ordesa Valley
May 21st, 2008 | by nick |
Hotel R. La Posada** The hotel is located at the door of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido Natural Park. Fantastic location for rural tourism and outdoor activities. More information.
Spanish nature- Monk seal recordThe largest surviving monk seal population in the world, at Cabo Blanco (between Western Sahara and Mauritania), has broken its modern record with 51 pups born in 2009. The breeding season began in May and the maximum number of births took place in August and September with 13 births each. Also, a new group of [...] […]
- Marmots expanding into Catalan Pre-PyreneesThe Alpine Marmot is successfully spreading into the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees, and there may now be as many as 10,000 individuals in the region. Marmots became extinct in the Pyrenees at the end of the last ice age, but were introduced by hunters into the French Pyrenees in 1948 in an attempt to reduce the pressure of [...] […]
- Guide to the Catalan PyreneesSimon Rice who writes an excellent blog here on iberianature has put together this comprehensive and original guide to the Eastern Catalan Pyrenees (and Pre-Pyrenees) which he calls “The Book”. Scroll down for sub links in to wildlife, history, geography, food and culture. The region of the Pallars Jussà and Sobirà, that is to say, the valley [...] […]
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Teruel bat
Detail of modernist forge of the Staircase of the Paseo del Óvalo. The monumental staircase was built in 1921 to link the new railway station with the old part of the city. The work has modernist and neomudejar details. By SantiMB on Flickr Snowshoeing trip in the Sierra Nevada
Interesting post about a recent snowshoeing trip in the Sierra Nevada by Maria of Spanish Highs on the forum. “Difficult snow conditions and at times blizzard conditions made it an epic and, at times, very testing journey… Read here The Camín Real de la Mesa
The Camín Real de la Mesa, is an ancient Roman trail linking Asturias and León, and forms a tributary of the famous Ruta de la Plata. The trail takes you through some of the most spectacular, least-known scenery in Europe.
“For centuries the Camín was one of the few points of contact between the provinces of León and Asturias. It is essentially Roman in construction, but the route has been used for trade for 5,000 years, traversing a mountain range with peaks of 2,000m, reaching into some of Spain’s most wildly beautiful and otherwise inaccessible landscapes. More from the Guardian
Looks very tempting.
Peninsular War battle sites
If exploring battle sites of the Peninsular War is your thing this site gives a comprehensive and well written treatment of the different places involved with maps included. La Alhambra receives most tourists in Spain
According to El País, La Alhambra in Granada has been named the most popular tourist attraction in 2009, beating the Sagrada Familia into second place and El Prado, third.English Tourists shun Spain because it’s ‘no longer foreign enough’”
The relentless spread of English bars in coastal resorts is eroding Spain’s attraction as a holiday destination because Britons no longer consider it foreign enough. The Times. Picked up on Notes from Spain here who note it says a lot more about the Brits (who aren’t aware of strange out-of-the-way places like, say Madrid) than Spain… - History and culture
- Largest towns and cities in SpainList of metropolitan areas in Spain by population. I was surprised to see Oviedo–Gijón–Avilés as high as it is. From wikipedia. Estimates are from the following sources: the “Functional Urban Areas” (FUAs) of the Study on Urban Functions of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON, 2007)[1] the “Larger Urban Zone” (LUZs)[2] of Urb […]
- The first census of SpainThe census of Floridablanca is considered the first Spanish census of population usinf modern statistics techniques. The total population counted was 10,268,110 with an average density of 22.7 hab/km2. It was produced under the reign of Charles III, between 1785 and 1787. Note, the relatively low density of Madrid and surprisingly, Pontevedra with the highes […]
- A history of MojácarI enjoyed this potted history of Mojácar: Mojácar used to be a town of around 6,000 people in as far back as 1870. It maintained this number of inhabitants until round about 1900 when, slowly, numbers began to fall, speeding its descent in the 1930s. Through the various local vicissitudes of the drop in the local [...] […]
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- Trip to GijonLast week we were in Asturias, staying in Gijon. It’s a small city, industry (pretty heavy), on one side of a river, a lovely old town and beach on the other: Even in early March, the grannies are on the beach in the morning, getting undressed and stuffing their clothes into giant plastic bags while they [...] […]
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