Posted in madrid on Feb 17th, 2010
The next Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week edition, the former Pasarela Cibeles, will take place from 18th to the 23rd of February in Feria de Madrid, where we could see the fashion proposals for the 2010/2011 Autumn-Winter.
The lucky visitors who came to this great fashion event could enjoy seeing the main showcase for Spanish creation, involving [...]
Posted in madrid on Feb 9th, 2010
The Spanish Academy Awards or the Goya Awards is the most important event in Spanish cinema and will take place on 14th February 2010. this will be its 24th edition.
It looks like this year, the Academy has wanted to bet on blockbuster movies in Spain, such as Alejandro Amenábar’s ‘Agora’, with box office receipts of [...]
Posted in madrid on Jan 5th, 2010
The historical, social and cultural development of a society is always reflected in artistic creations. These are valuable testimonies that help us to understand what happened in a country, what were the concerns and the changes in the society and how the citizens felt about it.
In Germany, the First World War brought subjects such as [...]
Posted in madrid on Dec 22nd, 2009
In Europe divorces are becoming more and more recurrent. The marriages last less years and people marry later: since 1960 the marriage rate has dropped from 7.8 to 5.9 marriages per 1,000 inhabitants, and the average age for marriage has risen from 25 years in men and 23 women, to 27 and 25 respectively. To [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 27th, 2009
1500 years ago, the Pope Gregoire I was listing the seven deadly sins condemned by the Catholic Church. Do you know them from memory? Everybody has some tendency to wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony: they’re natural human traits. In March 2008, the Vatican updated the sins list in order to modernize them [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 16th, 2009
“I don’t understand it”… Such reactions are usually heard in the corridors of abstract art museums. This word is often synonymous with ugly because the public does not usually appreciate single shapes, colours and volumes, but prefer human figures represented in real spaces. Forget for a moment what you see and just concentrate on what [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 4th, 2009
While the European Union aims to be a community whose member states should implement the same rights and similar laws, the different policies of each European governments differ in countless matters of great importance. One of the issues that most debates, demonstrations and controversy has caused, especially in the last decade, is the legalization of [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 2nd, 2009
One of the most important along with one of the most difficult decisions is without any doubt the question of coming out of the closet or not.
Posted in madrid on Oct 23rd, 2009
Do you have a favourite place building you love in a particular destination? There are beautiful cities around the world which differ from the others by its magnificent architecture. This is the case of Madrid.
Posted in madrid on Oct 21st, 2009
In the 15th century he was the most famous painter in Europe. He was hired by duke Philipe the good of Burgundy, and his work ‘Annunciation’ is one of the jewels of the permanent collection in the museum. The Thyssen-Bornemisza museum presents its new exhibition: Jan Van Eyck – Grisailles.
