SNAPSHOT: NATURE TURNED INCANDESCENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS »
Here's an option for you this Holiday Season: spend an evening among Nature (the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid really). Could be enchanting!
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MICHELIN STARS, PART 1: THE SENSATIONAL SPAIN & PORTUGAL MICHELIN GUIDE EVENT 2023 »
The annual gala for the Spanish & Portuguese Michelin Guide, held this year in Toledo, Spain, highlighted the absolute best restaurants of the Iberian Peninsula, with Spanish twins Javier and Sergio Torres and their COCINA HERMANOS TORRES the big winner of the sparkling night. Their outstanding work in sustainability, their dishes full of soul, creativity and profound flavours got them the highest of honours. Another fabulous Three Stars went the Spanish Chef Toño Perez of Restaurant Atrio.
CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WAY UP HIGH! »
Looking for Christmassy fun up in the clouds? You’re in the right place if you’re in Pozuelo de Alarcon, northeast of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. Because that’s where Madrid’s tallest Ferris wheel goes round and round this Season. On descent, it whirls at the heart-stopping speed of 126 km/h. And you get a memorable view of Madrid for miles around into the bargain. Who knows, you might even bump into Santa, with sackful of gift on his sleigh, when you're up there in the sky!
TAPAPIES, THE MOST EXCITING INTERNATIONAL TAPAS FESTIVAL IN THE MOST HISTORIC QUARTER OF MADRID IS HERE AGAIN! »
At Tapapies 2022 (20-30 October) more than 100 bars and restaurants plus some twenty stalls in the San Fernando and Anton Martin Markets will be offering gourmet-quality tapas created by tapas chefs from five continents. As if that were not enough, the Madrileño tapas festival's exciting “side dish,” the street party comprising free concerts and theatrical performances is back, adding great vibe to the festive tapas ambiance.
FRUIT ATTRACTION 2022: AS FABULOUSLY FRESH AS YOU’D WANT YOUR FOODSTUFF TO BE! »
Fruit Attraction is held every October and has become the indispensable sales component for the demand cycle for fresh products, providing a major platform and meeting point for fruit and vegetable operators, growers and agriculturists. Breaking all past records, Fruit Attraction 2022 has enshrined Madrid as the World Fruit & Vegetable Capital.
THINKING OF A SUMMERY HOLIDAY THIS FALL? FIVE IRRESISTIBLE REASONS WHY YOU WOULD DO WELL TO CHOOSE AMAZING ALTEA FOR YOUR DESTINATION! »
We've slipped officially into Fall. Even with the climate change where mild sunny temperatures persist in the seasonably cold Northern Hemisphere, you will still need a reasonable guarantee that such will be the case if you're looking for a place to vacation in order to escape from post-summer blues. More so because, climate change or not, Fall weather could cause a drastic drop in temperature at a moment's notice. Given all that, it's hard for you to go wrong if you choose Altea for your après-verano holiday, a picturesque Spanish coastal town that could give Santorini a run for its money.
PLAZA ESPAÑA: IT WON’T BE THE FINAL LEG OF HISTORY’S FIRST GLOBAL JOURNEY »
There's an ongoing party at the Plaza España in Madrid, the “La Hispanoamericana”. A festival of the cultures, gastronomies and artisanal traditions of the Spanish-speaking countries in the New World, along the (accidental) route of the first circumnavigation of the earth. In anticipation of Día de la Hispanidad. On 12 October 2022, the Día de la Hispanidad will burst forth into a very special celebration, marking as it does the quincentenary of The Circumnavigation.
MBFWMadrid 2022, SPAIN’S LEADING FASHION EXTRAVAGANZA, SASHAYED ITS WAY OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY »
The amazing 76th Mercedes–Benz Fashion Week Madrid (MBFWMadrid) kicked off at Ifema on the 14th of September, and the curtain was rung down on the 17th. The entire four-day Spanish fashion extravaganza fascinated and delighted professional buyers, designers, clients, invited guests, and the over one thousand national and international press who gave excellent coverage to the 41 runway shows and all the other aspects comprising the production of MBFWMadrid 2022. Needless to say, the sponsors got their money’s worth. And everyone is holding their breath for the next extravaganza!
PICASSO, PRESUMABLY THE GREATEST ANTI-WAR ARTIST OF ALL TIME, LIVES AGAIN! »
The French Minister of Culture: "Picasso's work continues to exert a real fascination throughout the world, abundant, inventive and often radical. It never ceases to be reread, revisited and reinterpreted. This formidable posterity is what the 1973-2023 Picasso Celebration aims to explore, question and share with a new generation born in the 21st century."
A GUIDEPOST REPRINT: “Alta Batik,” 20 May 1969 »
“Batik” is a complicated design-dyeing process that has been on the Fashion scene for over 2,000 years. The “número uno” rage in Paris and Rome for several seasons, the technique only just reached Madrid and has caught on so quickly that when Argentinian Inez Lezama Ovejero moved to the Spanish capital and went into the batik business she enjoyed immediate success.
