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TARRAGONA 360 LANDSCAPE VIEW

Tarragona 360 spectacular landscape view shows the beauty of the ancient Roman city on the Mediterranean Sea from above This magnificent Tarragona 360 view was created from four different landscape images taken with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The pictures were then merged together and edited with Photoshop to match the points of the various edges. The shots were taken in a not-unusual…

TARRAGONA ENAMORA: WONDERS OF TARRAGONA (video)

The wonders of Tarragona, World Heritage UNESCO Site in Catalonia, Spain, in a 2-minute video Tarragona was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on November 30th of 2000, but since its very old days, it has never stopped to impress and amaze. It’s time to pay a tribute to the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula (what is now Catalonia, Spain), that…

MADRID IN AUTUMN

Visiting Madrid in autumn: discovering the capital of Spain for a nice Erasmus trip During my Erasmus I went to visit Madrid in autumn with some italian friends and some spanish people from Valladolid. Erasmus trips are always amazing, and so was this, but this had something more: we visited Madrid with a friend from Madrid being our guide. Madrid…

CALLE COMTE – TARRAGONA

Discovering Calle Comte walking through the stylish pillars designed by artists in Tarragona In the upper Part of Tarragona there is a small street called Calle Comte / Carrer De Comte, often called Pilon’s Street. Why is it so popular? It has something really special: 76 colourful pillars brightly painted every year by different artists. Here you can see the…

BARCELONA BIKE TOUR

Barcelona Bike Tour: biking through the streets of the capital of Catalunya There could have been no better day for a Barcelona bike tour on a sunny day. Lovely day spent biking and discovering the wonders of the capital of Catalunya. Greetings to the guys of AEGEE Tarragona, our guides. Cherry on top: Manu Chao concert…