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...Guests can book personal training and group fitness classes Rates: Double from €450 Address: Plaza del Carmen, 28013 Madrid Website; Directions Niki Blasina stayed as a guest of Thompson Madrid What...
...In this commentary, Anna Mier y Teran of Spain’s Universidad de Navarra suggests that leftists “may view the situation through the lens of social justice, anti-Americanism or antisemitism”....
...Cervantes would be followed by more Spaniards, exquisite translations ranging from Luis de Góngora’s The Solitudes to Carmen Laforet’s Nada....
...March 6 to 10; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Teatro RealBizet’s masterpiece comes to one of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses for one night only....
...Mexican flamenco-rockers Rodrigo y Gabriela, French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and French synth-pop act Christine and the Queens lend a global sound....
...Back in the 1930s the legendary Carmen Amaya was wearing the tight-fitting traje de corto of the bailaor....
...Nearby is the Real Fábrica de Tabacos, famed for a certain Carmen and her way with rolling cigars....
...Have your coffee with a sticky — and sometimes warm — pastelito de guayaba y queso, layered pastry stuffed with guava pulp and sweetened cream cheese....
...Then the explosion happened, as a new generation of film-makers not only put their country on the map of world cinema, but conquered Hollywood: Alfonso Cuarón (from breakthrough Y tu mamá también to Roma...
...Some shouted the words “patria y vida” (“fatherland and life”), echoing a protest song released by Miami-based Cubans in February....
...There was only one circumstance in which being well connected was not much help: if you lacked a Y chromosome....
...Cabrera’s portrait of the colonial grande dame Doña María Bárbara Guadalupe de Ovando y Rivadeneyra is two paintings in one: below, a pious, rigid woman trussed in a gown and encrusted in punctiliously rendered...
...He describes Carmen’s show-stopping aria of flirtation (“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”) as an example of a canción de ida y vuelta, a song-type that made the round trip between Spain and its erstwhile colony...
...“Green and White” (1956) heralds the dynamism of the long triangle swooping and slicing across the canvas, which she later elaborated with breathtaking bravado in the “Blanco y Verde” series....
...Canibal Royal (Playa del Carmen, Mexico) This beach club has staked out a prime location near the north end of the oceanfront....
...The value of the peso against the dollar has halved in five years and dropped 13 per cent following the election, making properties in second-home hotspots such as Los Cabos, Playa del Carmen and Cancún...
...All they have to do is imagine the scene in black and white, and populate it with Don Pablo, the canny mayor; Carmen, the pretty Andalusian singer; and Manolo, her unscrupulous agent....
...On the façade of a poultry store ready for demolition, these handwritten words became stuck in my head: “Peladas-Matadas y Vivas”....
...Across the street I recognise Le Cabrera, a bar offering a pioneering mix of tapas and cocktails, and that was last year voted Spain’s number-one coctelería....
...The unexpected upshot of this has been a resurgence of support on the island for the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, whose rallying cry “Tierra y libertad” enshrined the notion that the land...
...The huge panorama of the moorlands, with the snowy Sierra de la Cabrera in the distance, would be worth the detour even if there were no rare wild animals on the agenda....
...Its Sal y Fuego restaurant is one of Mexico’s best, and the spa offers open-air massage rooms, herb-scented steam rooms and jacuzzis....
...But for Carmen Riu, co-owner of a large chain of hotels in the Spanish resort destination, these are the most difficult times in her long career in tourism: “It is the most uncertain period I have known...
...Chandrasekhar, Managing Trustee, Economic Research Foundation, India Carlos Ruiz, Attac Spain, Spain Carmen Blanco Valer, Ordförande/Presidenta, UBV/Latinamerika, Sweden Carol Barton,Coordinator, Women...
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