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St.Valentine’s bones are in Madrid. It’s funny that so many people consider the anniversary of the beheading of a man the most romantic day of the year.
Read MoreRuins of a long lost palace and Royal Stables have been found during the construction of a tunnel in downtown Madrid.
Read MoreThe strongest blizzard in a long time has hit Madrid strong. The Spanish capital hasn’t seen this amount of snow since 1963. Even though we’re stuck at home, have no garbage collection service and we’ve got a global pandemic on the loose, there was much happiness on the streets today.
Read MoreIn the summer, mostly every city, municipality, town, village, you name it, has their “fiestas”, which are celebrations usually in honor of the location’s patron saint. Madrid, for example, celebrates in August 15th with concerts and film showings in open air theaters. Last year I went to the beach in Andalusia and the local fiesta was a carnival, with lots of food and a fashion show. Well, in Buñol, they have a humongous tomato fight in the streets end with red rivers of tomato juice flowing down the gutter in a scene that could easily be used in gory horror flicks.
Read MoreTwenty-four-year old welder Antonio Caparrós breaks into tears while he hugs friends and relatives in a storage room with two gigantic, intricate, and beautiful statues and another few dozen sweaty men. He confesses that he has been released from a physical and emotional burden after having carried, along with another 39 men and for nearly five hours, a 1.1 ton statue of a Pieta, the depiction of a dying Jesus Christ in his mother’s arms.
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