Mas Miró: a fascinating farm

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Artist Joan Miró’s former holiday farm, located in the Catalan town of Montroig del Camp, is still a fascinating place to visit. The building complex, consisting of a house, a chapel and a staff residence, gives you a glimpse into the life of the Spanish surrealist. Nearly everything has been left as it was shortly before his death in 1983. Ready for an afternoon of history and culture on your camping holiday in Catalonia?

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Long story short: Valencia – Las Fallas

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In our ‘Long Story Short’ series, we’ll choose a different interesting region to focus on each time. Sanne and Michèle are visiting some of the most beautiful places on their trip through Andalusia in Spain.  Las Fallas is a traditional festival that is celebrated every year in March, in honour of St. Joseph. It officially begins on the last Sunday in February, and ends on the 19th March. During this period there are special...

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Long story short: Andalusia – Júzcar

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In our ‘Long Story Short’ series, we’ll choose a different interesting region to focus on each time. Sanne and Michèle are visiting some of the most beautiful places on their trip through Andalusia in Spain. After Ronda, Córdoba and El Torcal de Antequera, it’s now the turn of Júzcar, a truly unique spot. Júzcar is also known as the blue or ‘smurf’ village. We’d already heard of the blue city of...

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3 x culture trips in the sunny south

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A train station full of mosaics, a monastery built thanks to the spice trade, and markets that most closely resemble open-air theatres…Valencia, Lisbon and Florence are full of cultural gems, just waiting for you to visit! Valencia – Spain This city is a cultural hotspot where it’s almost impossible to be bored. One of the places you really need to see while you’re there is both useful and beautiful: the Estación del...

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Long story short: Andalusia – El Torcal de Antequera

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In our series ‘Long story short’ we highlight a different interesting region with a short article each time. Sanne and Michèle’s trip takes them to some of the most beautiful parts of Andalusia. This time they discovered the wonderful El Torcal de Antequera nature reserve. On the way to the famous Caminito del Rey hiking trail, we discovered that it was closed this Monday. We were expecting company and couldn’t stay...

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Long story short: Andalusia – Ronda

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In our ‘Long story short’ series, we’ll choose a different interesting region to focus on each time. In the first edition, we wrote about some of the cities that Sanne and Michèle visited during their road trip in Andalusia. After Córdoba, it’s time for our second stop: Ronda! Ronda may be smaller than Córdoba, but everyone’s heard of it. A historic place that is best known for the huge cliff that goes right...

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