At number 9 of rúa Joaquín Loriga de Vigo, there is a space consisting of a ground floor and a basement. The decor changes every three months, mutating from painting the walls to strangers videos projected on white canvas, through paintings, sculptures and what they call 'performances'. For at the number 9 of Joaquín Loriga de Vigo there is Ad Hoc Gallery, with over 20 years behind it loaded with works of art. Inés Ramiro, its directress since 2000, explains that "the way to find artists from Vigo is the same as in other places." Albeit with dossiers sent by Internet or taken by hand by the gallery; by visiting fairs and participating in

It is said that the Basques are very exaggerated, so much so that they have a peninsula inside Bilbao. This bilbainada is known as Zorrozaurre, a name which refers to its location: Zorroza, the district on the other side of the estuary and aurre, opposite, as it is limited by the Deusto Canal and the Bilbao estuary.   The peninsula was developed amidst the industrial expansion after the opening of the Deusto canal. In the 1950s there were large factories with more than 500 workers each, restaurants for the workers and traffic jams.  Some years later, many of the companies went to other parts of the province, leaving an industrial area practically orphan and abandoned. In

  Can a church be groundbreaking? The one in the parish of Santa Mónica is a miracle that surprises on all levels. It exceeds all personal beliefs and reinvents the concept of Spanish holy art. It is a place for shelter that is noted in the solid minimalism of its shapes, without lacking respect for any credo. Since it was created in 2008, this singular building has attracted as many religious faithful as it has lovers of culture and modern architecture. It has won them over, fifteen kilometres from the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, to the municipality of Rivas Vaciamadrid. It is impossible to ignore this shiny amalgam of steel and glass that stands out among the urban

The capital of the least populated province in Spain is the guardian of a treasure of incalculable value. In its streets and on its walls we find the legacy of visitors of the past: the largest mudéjar art heritage in Spain. The artistic style born at the time when the Muslims lived under Christian control. These were the times of the reconquest.  The Arabs left the country but their art remained intact. The mudéjar style has nothing to do with the grandiose mediaeval constructions that would later come to Europe, and it leaves no details either, like nasrid art. It is simpler and absolutely adapted to each place where it is found. In the case of Aragon, where Terue

Culture finds different ways of showing its essence.  It does so majestically in large museums which for centuries have seen faces passing in front of the canvases, or from the day-to-day activity of places such as AlhóndigaBilbao. This is a cultural and leisure centre that considers its relationship with people from a closer, more enjoyable standpoint, and above all one that is highly innovative and sustainable. The building is a former wine, liquor and oil store that was refurbished by the French designer Philippe Starck and reopened in May 2010. Around the motto of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, AlhóndigaBilbao has divided its space between three buildings that present

  The road leads to a green area where one's view is not interrupted by buildings or large mountains: You lose yourself amongst rocks of giant granite and come across a reservoir. This is the Los Barruecos nature park in Cáceres. And just when you are forgetting about civilisation, you suddenly find a sculpture of a car amongst the stones. ...? You think you have left civilisation, when in fact the road is taking you to the heart of culture. The road ends up in a museum: the Vostell Malpartida. Was it all premeditated or did some madman lose his sense of direction when he built the place? Premeditation. The father of the Happening in Europe and the person behind the Fl