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...May to September; further information here ‘Arte y Transformaciones Sociales en España: 1885-1910’ (Art and Social Transformation in Spain: 1885—1910), Prado The Prado’s summer exhibition explores Spain...
...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...Everett-Allen says lower-altitude Alpine resorts with north-facing grassy slopes, such as Villars-sur-Ollon in Switzerland, can prove more snow-sure than higher, south-facing slopes, such as Nendaz....
...Covered with gilt and dimly lit with candles . . . powerful or banal/Monuments of riches or repression . . . the Escorial/Cold for ever within like the heart of Philip . . . and in the Prado half/Wit princes...
...The historic Mandarin Oriental Ritz, opened in 1910 several blocks away near the Prado museum, will reopen later this year after a thorough renovation....
...The new museum stands on a side street within a few minutes’ taxi ride of one of the planet’s greatest concentrations of top-flight, world-class art: the Paseo del Prado in Madrid....
...Prado Museum, Paseo del Prado, 28014 (museodelprado.es). Restaurante Viridiana, Calle Juan de Mena 14, 28014 (restauranteviridiana.com)....
...When there are no resources to compete for, the potential for conflict decreases,” says Sergi Pardos-Prado, a researcher at Oxford university....
...For many visitors to Spain, El Corte Inglés is as much a symbol of the country as Barcelona’s unfinished cathedral or Madrid’s Prado museum....
...Le Jeune Homme et la Mort exhibits Petit’s sense of ballet as a force for emotional drama, while his version of Carmen (right) features at La Scala for the first time in seven years....
...The culmination of a decade of work by curators Carmen Giménez of the Guggenheim and Calvo Serraller, former director of the Prado, 140 paintings, 65 from Spain itself, tell the story of five dramatic centuries...
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