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Sep29

Big Groups Offer

Categories // Offers, Big Groups Offer

Big Groups have big needs. So, groups over 40 people get better deals at Feetup Hostels.  See the gratuities and extras we can offer for your super-group. Fill the form and find out what we can make for you.

Terms and conditions: Offers are not combinable with other Feetup Hostels offers. They are subject to availability of place and dates.This offer is only available at Feetup Hostels and Nest Hostels.

Dec01

Church of Santa María del Mar

Categories // Barcelona, CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DEL PI

It was built 1319 and 1391 in the purest Gothic Catalan style which means a single nave with side chapels with almost no ornamentation.  As most of the gothic  buildings of the same time, this church gives us a sense of hight.

It suffered a fire in 1936 where some elements of the Neo-Gothic style were introduced on the original building. The stained glasses were restored after the Spanish Civil War by Josep Maria Jujol.

Dec01

COLUMNS OF THE TEMPLE OF AUGUSTUS

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, COLUMNS OF THE TEMPLE OF AUGUSTO, Barcelona

Guarded by a medieval building, four temple columns bear witness to the magnificent origins of Barcelona in the heart of the Gothic Quarter. These columns are all that remains of the Temple of Augustus. They can be found at the end of Carrer Paradís in the Gothic Quarter. The uniform columns of the Temple of Augustus inside are 9 metres tall and comprise an imposing relic of one of the temples from Barcelona’s Forum which stood on a corner site at the rear. The temple was built in the 1st century BC and, as its name suggests, it was dedicated to the worship of Emperor Augustus. The temple was reconstructed by the architect Puig i Cadafalch in the early 20th century.

Dec01

Gothic District

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, Gothic District, Barcelona

Gothic district will make feel its visitor as if taking a walk through a mix between the Roman city of Barcino and the medieval town it became centuries later. It is quite the spirit of the city where past and present keep coexisting.

The centre of the Roman city is still touchable in the remains of the Roman Temple of Augustus. Indeed, the old centre of both, the Roman City and the Medieval Twon are the heart of the 21st century Barcelona.

Dec13

La Almudena

Categories // Madrid, Madrid Festivals and Festivities

La Almudena is one of the Matrons of Madrid. Its history is very close to the romance between María de las Mercedes and the King Alfonso the Twelfth. This love story has been one of the most famous of the city and has been taken into the cinema.

Queen María de las Mercedes had a strong faith in virgin of la Almudena and ordered to build the current Cathedral to honor her.

Dec14

La Puerta del Sol

Categories // Madrid Places and Monuments, Madrid

The Puerta del Sol (Spanish for "Gate of the Sun") is one of the most emblematic  and busiest places in Madrid. It is known as the Km 0 because it is the centre of the radial network of Spanish roads. It is also the meeting point to welcome the New Year. Its Clock bells mark the traditional eating of the Twelve Grapes.

Dec13

New Year´s Eve in Madrid

Categories // Madrid, Madrid Festivals and Festivities

Madrid has one of the most amazing nightlife in Spain every single night of the year. Obviously it is also this way on the New Year´s Eve.

Thousands of people congregate at Puerta del Sol, which is the centre spot of Spain, considered the Kilometre 0, because it is the point from where all the motorways distances are counted.

Dec01

Plaça Reial

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, Barcelona

This square was built to fill the space that many religious buildings had left in the city as a consequence of the confiscation of properties in 1835. It was designed by the architect Françesc Molina whose goal was to extol the Monarchy. There should be a statue of Ferdinand VII, but the project never came to fruition. So, instead, in that right spot stands the fountain os the Three Graces.

There are also two streetlamps designed by Gaudí, in his youth, which were put in place in 1879. This square is composed by uniform, noble buildings with porticoes. They used to be the home of the most important families in the city. The place shows an ambiguous character since it was designed to look luxurious, but somehow it became more bohemian that is translated in its nightlife.

Dec01

CASA D´ARDIACA

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, Barcelona, CASA D´ARDIACA

It used to be the residence of the eccesiastical hierarchy from the 12th century. It has suffered many alterations through the years, such as the ones carried out in the 16th century to connect the building with the dean´s house.

This building is a complete mixture between Gothic, Renaissance, and Romeo and Juliet style that has still some remains of the ancient Roman wall. Besides, it keeps some modernist details from the 19th century, when the Lawyers´Association, set up its premises in the building.

Nowadays, l´Ardiaca is the home of the Municipal Archive.

Dec01

CHURCH SANTS OF JUST I PASTOR

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, Barcelona, CHURCH SANTS OF JUST I PASTOR

It is said to be the oldest church in Barcelona. What seems to be clear is that it stands in one of the most unknown beautiful spots within the gothic district. It was built over the rests of a Romanesque Church dedicated to the saints Just I Pastor in the year 1342. Although it is located in an old area where all the nobility lived at the time, this church is surprisingly austere.  It might be its simplicity what makes this building that charming.

Dec01

Gothic Cathedral

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, Barcelona, GOTHIC CATHEDRAL

Located in the Gothic District of Barcelona, it is predominantly gothic but shows the passing generations through different styles elements. It is also known as The Cathedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia.

It took over six centuries to finish the contraction of this beautiful building. The Cathedral was started in 1298, and it was being transformed through the passing of time until 1890, year in which the front façade and tower were completed in Neo Gothic Style.

 

The interior of the Cathedral has to be viewed to have a better understanding of the splendor of this majestic construction. In this place there was the meeting between the Emperor Charles V of Germany and the Knights of the Golden Fleed.

Dec02

Granada City

Categories // Destinations, Granada, Granada

Located in southeastern Spain between the shores of the Mediterranean and the Andalusian hinterland. The city is located at the foot of Sierra Nevada, the highest mountain range of the Iberian peninsula.

With more than a thousand years of recorded history, Granada enjoys one of Spain's most important cultural and architectural patrimonies. Besides the Alhambra, the world renowned palaces and fortresses of the Nasrid dynasty, and the historical Moorish Albaicín quarter, both designated as World Heritage by the UNESCO, Granada boasts a Renaissance cathedral dating from the 16th century and many other architectural monuments of the first magnitude.


Dec14

La Plaza Mayor

Categories // Madrid Places and Monuments, Madrid

The Plaza Mayor was built during the Habsburg period. It is a central square in Madrid, located only some steps away from another the Puerta del Sol. The Plaza Mayor is rectangular in shape,  and is surrounded by three-story residential buildings having 237 balconies facing the Plaza. It has a total of nine entranceways. The Casa de la Panadería, serving municipal and cultural functions as the central tourist office, dominates the Plaza Mayor.

Dec02

Madrid City

Categories // Madrid, Destinations, Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain, located right in the centre of the country, Madrid is the headquarters for the Public Administration, Government, Spanish Parliament and the home of the Spanish Royal Family, in fact a cosmopolitan city, and business center of Spain.

Madrid can trace its origins to the times of Arab Emir Mohamed I (852-886), who ordered the construction of a fortress on the left bank of the Manzanares river. Later it became the subject of a dispute between the Christians and Arabs until it was conquered by Alonso VI in the XI century. At the end of the XVII century, a defensive wall was built for the protection of the new outlying areas, tracing the roads of Segovia, Toledo and Valencia. During the 18th century, under the reign of Carlos III, were designed the great arteries of the city, such as the Paseo del Prado and Paseo las Acacias.




Dec01

Plaça del Rei

Categories // Barcelona Monuments and Places, Barcelona

Plaça del Rei is probably the best example of what the city was during the Middle Age. The main building in it, is the Royal Palace whose history goes back to the 11th century. This imposing construction was the residence of the Catalan counts between the 13th and the 15 th centuries.

Its appearance nowadays is the result of several alterations. So, although most of it looks Gothic style some Visigothic and Romanesque features can be identified, since it is the base of the building.

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