El Mediterráneo

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"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

Links 1,500 years of Catalan history with the architecture, painting, sculpture, music, and poetry of Barcelona to pay tribute to the accomplishments of Catalunya culture

Pocos lugares en el mundo han levantado una fascinación parecida a la Alhambra de Granada. Desde su construcción a su conquista, desde su recuperación hasta su puesta en valor como monumento único, el conjunto alhambreño ha sido objeto de elogio, de admiración, de estudio e inspiración. Cristina Viñes Millet ha recuperado las más bellas, acertadas y singulares opiniones que los viajeros románticos dejaron escritas tras su visita a la Alhambra. La autora no se ha conformado con recopilar los textos sino que los ha contextualizado con respecto a su época. Al leerlos tenemos la...