Now a restaurant, this late 19th-century example of Moderniste style was built as a convent for straying young women of Barcelona’s wealthy industrialist class. It’s on Tibidado Avenue, in a neighborhood filled with mansions the young women might just have come from!
Above the wealthy neighborhood, you’ll also find the Cosmo Caixa, one of the world’s great science discovery museums, and even further, at the top of Tibidado itself, a popular amusement park.
Tucked away in the attic of the Hôtel des Invalides is a fascinating bit of military and cartographic history
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Deep in Tangier’s Medina, an old but updated hotel beckons with its opulent lobby
DrFumblefinger shares some photos from Bowron Lakes Provincial Park in B.C.
I’m not a swimmer, and the only way you could get me to go over water like this (frigid mountain waters of the Kootenai River) is with a sturdy bridge
Samantha enjoyed her visit and found the beer was good, and views were amazing.
Tucked away in the attic of the Hôtel des Invalides is a fascinating bit of military and cartographic history
Deep in Tangier’s Medina, an old but updated hotel beckons with its opulent lobby
Seville’s scrappy ‘other side of the river’ has a character and history all its own
