Photo 1. Behind this blacksmith's door the ramps of Toledo begin to fall away.  The smallest cake is marzipan, and it is so sweet. A lot of sugar and a lot of almonds. The largest cake is a toledana and inside you will find these sweet streaks of candied pumpkin called vermicelli.    Photo 2. The Knights of the Middle Ages dressed in Toledo. The city was probably the most chic centre for armour.        Photo 3. A face has disappeared. A masonry plate has replaced this face.The plate is handmade. A craftsman has set stone after stone to make a perfect geometry.     Photo 4. On guard! Toledo is f

  If you are a fanatic of documentary cinema, you are already late in getting a ticket to Madrid and taking the Underground to Plaza de Legazpi. This is the place of the El Matadero Cultural Centre, a large complex devoted to contemporary culture that has fixed its sights on documentary cinema and has done so by devoting the fridge and the boilers of this vast Neo-Mudéjar complex, long home to livestock, to this genre of cinema.   In the fridge and the boilers, we no longer find meat, but rather large quantities of celluloid. The ‘Cineteca’, opened in 2011 as a further element of this centre of creation, has become the only place in Spain devoted e

  Prepare a few Mediterranean whiffs stirred well with a large dose of coloured brick. Accompany the mixture with the aroma of Iberian settlements, remains of the Roman Empire and sprinkle the last touches of the Arab domain. Give the whole lot of Catalan accent. Finally, bathe the mass in the lower course of a river of Girona. A spoonful of Venice, another of Oporto… in the oven and ping!: the Hanging Houses over the river Onyar. A feast of architecture for one's sight in the heart of Girona.   Undoubtedly the most genuine view of this Catalan city hardly one hour from Barcelona. The Hanging Houses lean over the river Onyar, one of the four rivers crossin