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Torremolinos, Unesco World Heritage site?

Posted: November 17th 2008 11:06.

BA’s Highlife mag goes lowlife: “After 40 years of mass tourism, Torremolinos continues to evolve and, away from the coast, it’s a bustling Andalucian town. The high-rise 1950s and 1960s hotels are now admired by fashionable architects. The campaign to make it a Unesco World Heritage site begins here.” I’ve been going to Benidorm for [...]

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Barcelona

  • July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
  • July 5 1844 

    I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...

  • July 5 1848 

    En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
    beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos...

  • July 5 1899 

    SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.

  • July 5 1909 

    MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.

Palafrugell and thereabouts

  • Sorry, nothing doing today.

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