Madrid España Fiesta!

Some pictures taken in Madrid Spain. Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain.^[1] Residents are called Madrileños (madrilenians).




The city is located on the river Manzanares in the center of the country, between the autonomous communities of Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha. Due to its economic output, standard of living, and market size, Madrid is considered the major financial center of the Iberian Peninsula; it hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major Spanish companies, as well as the headquarters of three of the world's 100 largest companies (Telefónica, Repsol-YPF, Endesa).^[2] As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political center of Spain.^[3] The current mayor is Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, of the conservative Partido Popular.



The population of the city was 3.2 million (December 2005), while the estimated urban area population was 5.1 million. The entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area (urban area and suburbs) is calculated to be 5.84 million. The city spans a total of 607km² (234 sq mi).^[5]


As the capital of Spain, Madrid is a city of great cultural and political importance. While Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure, it has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighborhoods and streets. Its landmarks include the huge Royal Palace of Madrid; the Teatro Real (Royal theatre) with its restored 1850 Opera House; the Buen Retiro park, founded in 1631; the imposing 19th-century National Library building (founded in 1712) containing some of Spain's historical archives; an archaeological museum of international reputation; and three superb art museums: Prado Museum, which hosts one of the finest art collections in the world, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, a museum of modern art, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, housed in the renovated Villahermosa Palace.^[4]



Paella! and some caricature of friends, its not all days that
you can see your art standing beside a Picasso :P


This was just so fun, what a day!


above the Communications Palace, Current Office of the Mayor in Cibeles Square.



Plaza Mayor, aplace where some artists get together, great atmosphre in this place that has sufered 3 fires.

The best Plagiarism!



in these pictures you can see Vizcarra´s work being plagiarized by every caricature artist in the Plaza.

O carro em cima estava em exposição num centro comercial em San Sebastian e só para nota é o novo Subaru Impreza wrx sti em Espanha custa 17.500€ em Portugal o preço rondará os 30.000€ sem duvida só um aparte da bela qualidade de vida de nuestros hermanos... :(

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Tours France

Some pictures taken from Tours France and its Cathedral.

Tours is a city in France, the préfecture (capital city) of the Indre-et-Loire département, on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the perfection of its local spoken French, and for the famous Battle of Tours in 732. It is also the site of the cycling race Paris-Tours. Tours is the largest city in the Centre region of France, although it is not the regional capital, which resides in its second-largest city of Orléans. In 2006, the city itself had 142,000 inhabitants and the metropolitan area had 297,631.


The cathedral of Tours, dedicated to Saint Gatien, its canonized first bishop, was begun about 1170 to replace the just-started cathedral that was burnt out in 1166, during the quarrel between Louis VII of France and Henry II of England. The lowermost stages of the west towers (illustration, right) belong to the 12th century, but the rest of the west end is in the profusely detailed Flamboyant Gothic of the 15th century, completed just as the Renaissance was affecting less traditional patrons than bishops, in the pleasure châteaux of Touraine. These towers were being constructed at the same time as, for example, Château de Chenonceau.


Some great paintings relay inside this monument.

And they are really big!


Inside the triple-naved church, building proceeded as always from the sanctuary and choir, which has some of the finest stained glass (13th century), and worked pier by pier down the nave. The choir is 13th century; the transept and east bays of the nave are 14th century; a cloister on the north is contemporary with the facade.

The atmosphere of the Gothic cathedral close permeates Honoré de Balzac's dark short novel of jealousy and provincial intrigues, Le Curé de Tours (The Curate of Tours) and his medieval story Maitre Cornelius opens within the cathedral itself.

This painting impressed me the colours are so vivid and seem so fresh to the eye. You can notice the chest of Jesus seems to flow away from the rest of the painting.
Well, this is the rest of a stay in France, next headed to Madrid Spain.

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