The city of Cuenca is high. Very high. At more than 900 metres above ground level, its profile is a block that rises above the ground. Marked by incredible buildings that had the old city declared a World Heritage Site in 1996, among all of the buildings the hanging houses stand out for their originality and mystery as structures built on a cliff that make one feel dizzy by just looking at them. Although it is said that in times past much of the cliff was full of this type of construction, now only three survivors still defy gravity every day. With an uncertain origin in the centuries of the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, it is not known whether they are Arab or Christian but i

Time and space suddenly go on standby for Blanca, a nine-year-old girl visiting the Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum with mum and dad. A sign says that the moving metal structure that has caught the girl’s attention is a work called Remote Control II, created by the Czech artist Jana Sterbak in 1989 and brought into the museum's collection in 1996. But Blanca has not stopped to read this, she already knows what it is: “Mummy look! It is a long skirt with wheels that you can get on”, she concludes after studying the find a second time. “It's missing the cloth of cover your legs, but if you put it on you don't have to walk. And you are taller. Do they se

The evolution of Spanish society from the end of the military dictatorship that governed it until the death of its caudillo, Francisco Franco, in 1975, is present in all changes to the security systems that have protected Guernica, the painting by Picasso on the Spanish Civil War, since the MoMA in New York returned it to Spain in 1981. Even on the day of this report, a girl with headphones over her ears walks straight up to the painting and a watchman in the room stops her. —Careful!   The girl looks startled and steps back.   On the floor, 3 m from the Guernica painting, there are five strips of grey adhesive tape stuck to the tiles weakly marking