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		<description><![CDATA[You willpower every time reach impressive to do in Barcelona. Here you can reach all info about Turismo Barcellona. These town has over fifty museums, showcasing eternal collections of workings by designers really as Picasso, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. At the Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya (MNAC) you can view 1 of the world&#8217;s]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You willpower every time reach impressive to do in <strong>Barcelona</strong>. Here you can reach all info about Turismo Barcellona.</p>
<p>These town has over fifty museums, showcasing eternal collections of workings by designers really as Picasso, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. At the Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya (MNAC) you can view 1 of the world&#8217;s mainly principal collections of Romanesque art. It additionally has historic collections of contemporary art housed in museums really as the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and CaixaForum. Most museums theater temporary exhibitions.<span id="more-287"></span></p>
<p>The city is also a showcase for the best of the country&#8217;s theatrical skills. It is the base for internationally popular companies like as Els Comediants, La Fura dels Baus, Els Joglars and El Tricicle. One of the a good number significant cultural trial is the &#8220;Grec&#8221; Summer Event: a date on theatre, music and dance.</p>
<p>The town additionally hosts a number of popular music festivals loyal to jazz, flamenco, classical and modern melody. The town additionally has two classical tune locations in addition to a notable-superiority programme of actions: the Palau de la Música and L&#8217;Auditori. In adding, the opera residence, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, homes one of Europe&#8217;s the majority impressive opera seasons.</p>
<p>In addition to that&#8217;s not all&#8230; You will in addition find spaces where you can play sporting activities in the go up space and a whole crowd of leisure landmarks, such as the Tibidabo Amusement Park and the old harbour quarter, the Port Vell. Barcelona is a pack of surprises that motivation stay you entertained on countless cultural and recreational actions.</p>
<p>About 4.5 million individuals stay in the Barcelona metropolitan area. The place enjoys a crucial location, bathed with the sea and inclueds exceptional transport relations on the relax of Europe. The Mediterranean and Europe are the significant traits of Catalonia.</p>
<p>Barcelona is a fresh, cosmopolitan city, but has inherited several centuries of history. Its geographic place and the free personality of its inhabitants are the factors why the city is organism ethnically enriched all the time. It has a significant architectural and enormous heritage, the largely splendid exponents of which are its Gothic and modernista architecture. Five of its pieces need been designated World Heritage Sites. The entire metropolitan guarantees that tourists will enjoy buying a promenade over its streets which are replete with charm.</p>
<p>This area is also fulled of surprises for you younger travellers. Barcelona has a magic mountain: Tibidabo. You could take your mother and father to the Tibidabo Amusement Park, where you can go the merry-go-round, and visit a marionette show.</p>
<p>At the zoo you can view how a lot of animals live and a dolphin explain! Other than one of the places where you can watch the a good number fish is L&#8217;Aquàrium. You can go through a tunnel under the water and visit sharks and fish of all shapes and sizes.</p>
<p>L’Aquarium de Barcelona is open year-round. Opening time is 9:30 AM daily, and closing times vary by season. Admission prices also vary by age, so check their website for full details. L&#8217;Aquarium can be considered to be one of the best touristic <a href="http://www.barcelonatours.net/tours-activities/activities" target="_blank" class="broken_link">activities in Barcelona</a>.</p>
<p>Barcelona is also opinion of you and you&#8217;ll find a lot of theatre shows, cinemas and parks to compete in for as long as you like. Insight at all the attractions you are do&#8230;</p>
<p>Barcelona inclueds museums dedicated to art, science, sport, origin, archaeology and supplementary fields. Be confident not to miss couple of the the majority interesting, really as the Museu Picasso, the Museu d&#8217;Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the Fundació Joan Miró and the Museu Nacional d&#8217;Art de Catalunya (MNAC). The MNAC showcases the unique Romanesque frescoes from churches in the Catalan Pyrenees. If you desire to increase a superior insight into the story of Barcelona, you can trip the Museu d&#8217;Història de la Ciutat. You can also take a seem at the several art galleries dotted around the place.</p>
<p>And Barcelona doesn&#8217;t sleep at evening&#8230; You can hear all mode of music: all styles of electronic music for the youngest clubbers, and jazz and Latin rhythms for every ages. Barcelona attracts the world&#8217;s top DJs who play the most excellent dance grooves all through the evening at the discotheques around the capital.</p>
<p>Barcelona is a most important shopping showcase. Its variety of stores are a mixture of tradition and modernity. They are section of the city&#8217;s characteristics and individuality and, jointly with the main models around Spain and in scotland, make it a buying city of international position.</p>
<p>The capital is grand buying thoroughfare is known as the Barcelona Buying Line. Its exceptionality with stare to additional shopping areas deception in the verity really it encompasses an large part (some five kilometres), is mainly pedestrianised, and styles an important element of the metropolitan and the life of its inhabitants. This reasons that, as you walk through municipality is most charming streets and districts, you can build your products at its several top value shops. Now you can find all info approx Aeroporto Barcellona and also information about <a href="http://www.autocarhire.es/locations/barcelona_car_hire/" target="_blank" class="broken_link">Barcelona car hire</a> inside of the airport.</p>
<p><em>Visit this fantastic metropolis!</em></p>
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		<title>The Silves Medieval Festival 9-11 August 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around the second week of August, the town of Silves in Portugal plays host to a Medieval Festival and it is an ideal place for this type of even as the town&#8217;s cobbled and narrow streets lead up to a medieval castle and during the Festival these streets turn into what they used to be]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Around the second week of August, the town of Silves in Portugal plays host to a Medieval Festival and it is an ideal place for this type of even as the town&#8217;s cobbled and narrow streets lead up to a medieval castle and during the Festival these streets turn into what they used to be centuries ago: a medieval market place.</p>
<p>Step back in time a few hundred years back to sometime between the 12<sup>th</sup> and 14<sup>th</sup> century and enjoy the particular atmosphere offered by the wandering troubadours, jugglers and barbecues and spit roasts at every couple of meters one from each other.</p>
<p>The Silves Medieval Festival takes place between the 9<sup>th</sup> and 15<sup>th</sup> of August in 2011 and is amongst the most popular festivals that the Algarve sees during the summer period and everybody can get into the action by hiring period costumes so as to better fit in with the rest of the medieval folk.</p>
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<p>Most of the activities that take place are free except for the jousting tournament and the wicked Black Knight which your children will surely want to see but there is only one show per night so make sure that you&#8217;re there when it happens. Talking of free, while in the Festival ground you will have to exchange your modern day Euros for the medieval currency of Xelbs; this can be done under the main gates and it&#8217;s all meant to add to the fun and immersion of the event.</p>
<p>Ideally you will want to grab dinner sometime around 7 PM as it will surely get really crowded after 9, despite the large number of places where you can eat rest assured that they will rapidly fill up at around that hour.</p>
<p>One could hardly find a better setting for such an event in the Algarve than the Moorish city of Silves its preserved old town and the castle play a huge role in taking you back in time.</p>
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